Category Archives: Trends and Buzz

Who was Hong Kong returned to?

Zhang Yunruo (张允若) and Huang Yilong (黄一龙) discuss the handover.

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Harmony means everyone gets a passing grade

Article from China Youth Daily (中国青年报) about a teacher punished for failing plagiarized papers.

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Wu Si on the intractable problem of forced labor

Wu Si (吴思) talks about the history of slaves working in mines and kilns over the last few centuries in China.

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World’s longest sea bridge connects Shanghai to Ningbo

According to Xinhua, the bridge has the world’s longest cross-sea span. It will cut the length of the drive from Shanghai to Ningbo from 400 km to 80km.

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The media circus when a celebrity dies

Hou Yaowen (侯耀文) dies. He Dong (何东) writes about the media circus, comparing it to the death of Huang Ju (黄菊). Also, Sina apologizes for deleting the post.

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Baseball’s Yao Ming?

Liu Kai (刘凯) and Zhang Zhenwang (张振旺) join the Yankees.

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Rural smoke envelops Beijing

Farmers burn the stalks left behind after the first harvest. City residents get upset.

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Chinese Internet responses to slave children case

The case of the children enslaved at a Shanxi brick factory has been widely reported in the Western and Chinese media, and is all over the Internet in both Chinese and English languages (a good summary by Chen Peijin of … Continue reading

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National Theater unveiled

A twisted Yin Yang symbol? China’s new National Theater in Beijing designed by French architect Paul Andreu is nearing completion. Yesterday workers removed the blue panelling on the north side of the construction site, revealing the completed exterior of the … Continue reading

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English language theater in Beijing

I Heart Beijing, an predominantly English-language play by Elyse Ribbons, returns to Beijing in mid-June, 2007.

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