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1. Number of “Golden Weeks” to date: 152. Road trips taken nationally: 323 million3. Percentage from large and mid-sized cities travelling in private cars: 304. Number of tourists in Beijing: 4.16 million5. Increase over last year: 14%6. Tourist satisfaction rate: … Continue reading →

Since 1949, China’s state-owned news organizations have used the phrase “so-called” together with quotation marks to indicate their contempt for various political ideas. Now it’s the turn of the Tapiei Times to abuse the quote marks: Lien, Hu share ‘vision’ … Continue reading →

When all Chinese media concentrate on reporting Lien Chan’s ice-breaking visit to mainland, no one doubts that it is a historic event. From April 26 to May 3, each place Lien visited or will visit seems have special meanings: Sun … Continue reading →

Lien Chan, chairman of the Kuomintang party,arrived in Nanjing today and started his first leg of an eight-day visit to the mainland. Lien and his delegation will also visit Beijing, Xi’an and Shanghai. This historic visit has attracted the attention … Continue reading →

Something to think about when you hail a Xiali in Beijing. More eyewitness photos of today’s flaming taxi at Xinhuanet.

Possibly as many as 30,000 people were marching through the streets of Shanghai today. Some of them smashed up a teppanyaki restaurant, some threw stones at passing Toyotas, and some called for the mass murder of Japanese people. Mass gatherings … Continue reading →

The word is out that there will be more anti-Japanese deomstrations this weekend. The protestors, apparently having found holding nationalist marches even more fun than playing pirate copies of Counterstrike at smoke-filled internet bars, will be marching in central locations … Continue reading →

Shenzhen From Justin Mitchell: There is another (the third, I think, in as many weekends) anti-Japanese protest in Shenzhen on Sunday from 10am-3pm. No mention of tomatos or eggs, but a friend and translator who is going to help me cover … Continue reading →

Here is an unverified tip from a Danwei reader; the source is a Shanghai university student: There will be a protest this Saturday, April 16 at Xujiahui. It will start at 9 o’clock and proceed to the Japanese embassy. The … Continue reading →

The anti-Japanese protest demonstration begun this morning has become a protest march, headed for the Japanese Embassy. As of 3:30 p.m., the protesters are at Dongsi shitiao, about a mile away from the embassy. The march started as a demonstration … Continue reading →