China

Jul 21st 2021HONG KONG’s universities are on summer time vacation. Among the many few college students who stay on campuses, the temper is gloomy. On July 16th police raided the places of work of the scholar union on the College of Hong…

Jul 15th 2021TO FREE-THINKING customers of WeChat, a social-media platform, it was a depressingly acquainted occasion. Late on July sixth, those that tried to browse accounts run by LGBT societies at a number of universities in China have…

Jul 17th 2021IT IS BECOMING clear that China is not going to, or maybe can not, re-open its borders quickly. The explanations are many. Chinese language leaders have declared that zero tolerance of covid-19 is a mark of excellent…

Jul 15th 2021BEIJING AND SHANGHAITHE BEIJING Worldwide E book Honest, which takes place in August, provides the better-known view of China’s publishing trade: state-controlled and gargantuan. The organiser, China Publishing Group, owns 40…

Jul 10th 2021FIVE OR SIX years in the past, when many Chinese language nonetheless related American tradition with novelty and enjoyable, Halloween was big business in Caoxian. This rural county claims to be China’s largest supply of low…

Jul 10th 2021HONG KONGPROPAGANDISTS HAD teed it up as one in every of this 12 months’s blockbusters. The film “1921”, named after the 12 months China’s Communist Social gathering was born, was supposed to grip the imaginations of young…

Jul 10th 2021XICHANGIN THE HENGDUAN mountains of Sichuan province, swollen brown rivers and bushes heavy with ripe mangoes don't evoke digital wizardry. But till just lately, there have been buildings right here with rack upon rack of…

Jul 4th 2021CHINA’S NUCLEAR arsenal is piddling by American or Russian requirements. The nation has scarcely 200 warheads, reckons America’s Division of Defence, and maybe 100 or so inter-continental ballistic missiles (ICBMs). Till final…

Jul 1st 2021HONG KONGTWO VEGETARIAN meals every day. A month-to-month funds of 200 yuan ($30). Working only one or two months a 12 months. In April an web person posted this transient description of his easy, stress-free life. He described…

Jul 1st 2021JIANGNAN SHIPYARD lies on an alluvial island on the mouth of the Yangzi river. It has grown quickly because it moved there from close by Shanghai in 2009, churning out destroyers, icebreakers and touchdown craft for the Chinese…