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Gov't eyes continual control of land use
China Daily | 6 feb
More money goes to agriculture in 2006
China Economic Net | 6 feb
China rebukes Japanese FM's remark on colonization in Taiwan
Xinhua | 6 feb
Chinese 'contradictions' urge caution
The Times | 6 feb
At least 20 hurt in China gunfight
AP | 6 feb
Chinese drive a hard bargain
The Standard | 5 feb
China's New Moves in the Central Asian Energy Sweepstakes
Jamestown Foundation | 5 feb
China's rising star
Asia Times | 5 feb
Survey: 72.7% of Chinese feel they are happy
People's Daily | 5 feb
Chinese village anger erupts against police
Reuters | 5 feb
Oil-Hunting China Aims to Curb Appetite
AP | 5 feb
China's Strategy of Containing India
Power and Interest News Report | 5 feb
China combats spread of AIDS along historic Burma Road
Chicago Tribune | 5 feb
Why 500m peasants scare the US
The Guardian | 5 feb
Press' English pathfinder dies
SCMP | 3 feb
Monitoring of SOEs to be tightened
Reuters | 3 feb
Citigroup more equal than others
Asia Times | 3 feb
China's texters to lose anonymity
Asia Times | 3 feb
Under house arrest: blind activist who exposed forced abortions
The Guardian | 3 feb
China's modern cure for instability
Asia Times | 2 feb
English Article Feed :: rss
"Opening" Art and Politics: Discursive Practice in Mao Zedong Thought
by Han Yuhai | 15 dec
To be Attacked by the Enemy is a Good Thing
by Robert Weil | 8 dec
Mao's Legacy in China's Current Development
by Pao-yu Ching | 28 jun
The End of the MFA and the Rising Tide of Labor Disputes in China
by Chan, Wai-ling | 25 may
Community Based Labour Organizing
by Pun, Ngai and Chan Wai-ling | 25 may
William Hinton on the Cultural Revolution
by Dave Pugh | 19 may
Our Views and Opinions of the Current Political Landscape
by A group of veteran CCP members, veteran cadres, veteran military personnel and intellectuals | 12 apr
Chinese Article Feed :: rss
重新认识中国历史
by 韩德强 | 17 jan
劳动者是经济主体,不是'生产要素'或'资源'
by 刘永佶 | 2 nov 04
我们对当前形势的看法和意见��致胡总书记
by
一批老党员、老干部、老军人和知识界人士 | 2 nov 04
一个矿区社会生活的实地调查��管窥振兴东北老工业基地
by 农民丙 | 27 oct 04
关于国有企业改革的学人呼吁书
by | 12 oct 04
五阶段历史观
by 黄纪苏 | 2 oct 04
左大培、杨帆、韩德强就阻止国有资产流失、搞好国有企业致党和国家领
by 左大培、杨帆、韩德强 | 18 sep 04
China Study Groupred book on black list? nope. The original story turned out to be a hoax. filed in: about us | 2 comment(s) | posted on December 18, 2005
Beyond the Harbin chemical spill
by Joshua Muldavin This month’s toxic spill into China’s Songhua River forced the evacuation of thousands of people; poisoned the water supply for millions in northeast China, including Harbin, the region’s major city; and now threatens the supply for as many as 70 downstream Russian cities and villages. Thus far, most analysts following the disaster have focused on the challenges faced by urban Chinese and the real problems of lax environmental regulatory enforcement, corrupt local officials and delayed sharing of crucial information with affected populations.
But they have missed two far more significant points about the spill, which involved 100 tons of benzene, a powerful carcinogenic petrochemical that causes leukemia. First, it is not a singular event but a manifestation of a much larger structural problem within China that disproportionately impacts rural areas where the country’s majority lives. And second, the world as a whole to varying degrees is implicated in this predicament, and can no longer afford to pretend otherwise. Far from the bustling megalopolises of Beijing and Shanghai are China’s rural hinterlands – the engine and the dumping ground of China’s unprecedented economic growth and trajectory. These rural areas provide the country’s booming cities with cheap, unorganized labor drawn from extremely poor peasant communities in the midst of their own social and environmental crises. It is also here that many toxic industries are located and through which the benzene spill first flowed and will soon flow again – out of sight of the world’s media. Rural laborers work in some of the world’s dirtiest, most dangerous conditions in these far-flung township and village industries spread across the whole country. These industrial subcontractors to Chinese and international corporations spew pollution into the air and water and onto the land. And when rural workers’ health is destroyed in these factories, they return to tilling the decimated lands surrounding their villages – toxic waste dumps for this unregulated production. I spent a good part of the 1980s living along the banks of the Songhua River. I vividly remember drinking purple contaminated well water in a village with no other water source than the one polluted by the small local factory. The choice for local residents was to drink the water or leave and join the 200 million peasants searching for work in China’s cities on any given day. continue reading at the International Herald Tribune (Joshua Muldavin, a professor of geography and Asian studies at Sarah Lawrence College, is writing a book on the environmental and social impacts of post-Mao China’s development path. Photo by AP) filed in: news | 0 comment(s) | posted on November 30, 2005
filed in: announcements | 0 comment(s) | posted on November 25, 2005
100 billion yuan in back wages
(Picture of workers in Zhengzhou holding banner announcing a news confernece calling for the return of their back wages. They had been contracted to complete office blocks on the campus of Henan University. From: Yahoo China, via CSR Asia) filed in: news | 4 comment(s) | posted on July 18, 2005
Shark Attack
Turn on the TV, and there’s always something new to fear. Not the really scary stuff, necessarily, like bombs in the subway (though the talking heads do their best to maximize those fears) but the daily sensations that are the lifeblood of cable TV: disappearing in Aruba, getting attacked by sharks—or being taken over by the Chinese. The China National Offshore Oil Company (CNOOC), 70 percent owned by the Chinese government, is putting in a bid for Unocal. Unocal had already agreed to being taken over by Chevron. But, as often happens when corporations start dating seriously, another suitor butted in. In this case, because China’s involved, the usual forces of nationalist fervor are up in arms. ... continue reading at The Nation filed in: news | 0 comment(s) | posted on July 14, 2005
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