Liz Carter is a DC-based China-watcher and the author and translator of a number of Chinese-English textbooks available on amazon.cn. She and her cat Desmond relocated to DC from Beijing, where she studied contemporary Chinese literature at Peking University, after learning that HBO was planning to adapt Game of Thrones for television. She writes at abigenoughforest.com and tweets from @withoutdoing.
By far one of the most widely followed news stories in China over the past week has been the trial of former Railways Minister Liu Zhijun, China’s first ministerial-level official to be prosecuted for corruption. …
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It’s well known by now that former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden fled to Hong Kong after leaking information about the NSA’s surveillance activities. With Americans increasingly aware of the role that Chinese …
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In the southern Chinese province of Guangdong, often called Canton, carriers of the AIDS virus are now allowed to teach schoolchildren. The recently-announced change in regulations marks a step forward for AIDS activists, with the …
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Even China was listening when U.S. President Barack Obama held a press conference yesterday to discuss his administration’s counterterrorism policy. The state-run Central China Television (CCTV) picked up and broadcast part of the speech – …
Read MoreSeveral days ago, the state-run People’s Daily ran a piece entitled “The Post-80′s Generation is Dispirited: Early Decline Cause for Alarm,” arguing that while China’s youth born after 1980 have far and away better material …
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Almost half of all Chinese report feeling “more anxiety,” now than they did five years ago. What, exactly, is driving these concerns, or increasing reports of these concerns? Avid followers of China-related news might immediately …
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Readers following the news in China may already be familiar with the case of Huang Yang, a doctoral student at one of China’s most prestigious universities who was recently poisoned to death. Over the past week, …
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On April 20, the most severe earthquake since 2008 struck China. In the days since, aid organizations have mobilized to provide food and shelter to surviving victims in the disaster area, many of whom lost …
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On 8:02 AM, China time, a 6.9 earthquake hit Ya’an, Sichuan province, a city of 1.5 million not far from Chengdu, the provincial capital. In just an hour, a notice about the earthquake had 84,000 …
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Xi Jinping, where were you the night of March 1? Yesterday, both domestic and foreign news outlets were reporting that the General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party Xi Jinping had taken a ride in …
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China’s state-run media reported on April 8 that Huang Sheng, former deputy provincial governor of Shandong, was being tried in the city of Nanjing for accepting bribes. What drew the most attention, however, were not …
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Chinese authorities have confirmed 14 cases of humans infected with bird flu, and of those, 5 have already died. It’s no surprise, then, that “bird flu” and “H7N9” have been trending on Chinese social media …
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