China Hurries to Animate Its Film Industry
New York Times ran a story on China’s booming animation film industry. China is far from alone among fast-developing nations eager to pursue a piece of the lucrative animated film business by marrying...
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BBC:Web demo launches hip-hop in China
From BBC NEWS: A demo placed on the internet has triggered the initial success of one of China’s first hip-hop groups, Hi-Bomb. Hi-Bomb – composed of Lionel “Little Lion” and Shang Hao – rap in...
View ArticleAP:Chinese adviser urges lip synching ban
From the AP via The San Jose Mercury News : BEIJING – Chinese government advisers meeting in Beijing this week have some weighty matters to discuss: blocking Taiwan’s formal independence, alleviating...
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Mark Magnier: Flip Side to Fame in China
From LA Times: CHONGQING, China ” Tian Liang, 25, is handsome, tall and was, until recently, the pride of China. When he returned from the 2004 Athens Olympics with a gold medal for synchronized...
View ArticleIn China, Echoes of the Past – John M. Glionna
From Los Angeles Times: Video recorder in hand, Wang Hong sat inside a small stone-and-brick house with one of China’s aging musical masters ” a Mongolian vocalist named Hajab who once sang his...
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Rolling Stones To Rock China In April – Reuters
From Reuters, via Billboard (link): The Rolling Stones will likely follow the beat of China’s censors when they offer mainland fans some long-awaited satisfaction with an April concert. The veteran...
View ArticleTea, Wild or Not, Enriches Chinese Province
Yunnan Province has long been a main source of tea and today plantations supply many of the trendy tea shops in China’s major cities. But locals reject the mass produced grown tea, preferring to drink...
View ArticleSalsa Fever Sweeps into China
From the International Herald Tribune: This week’s third annual China Salsa Congress in Beijing, which features four days of performances and competition, highlights the growing popularity of salsa in...
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CDT Bookshelf: Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics: Entrepreneurship and...
The Cambridge University Press offers a summary of Yasheng Huang’s new book, Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics: Entrepreneurship and the State. Huang, a Professor at the Massachusetts Institute...
View ArticleEast Meets West: How the Brain Unites Us All
Ed Yong at the New Scientist discusses the conventional notions of an ‘individualist, analyitical’ Western psychology and a ‘collectivist, holistic’ Eastern one, and how a recent psychological...
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