8/24/2009

A New Website

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The China Beat is moving! Please update your bookmarks for our new website : http://www.thechinabeat.org/ . Our new feed can be found at ht...
8/22/2009

Readings: Expo Preparation, Food, Music, and Fashion

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A variety of readings that piqued our interest this week: 1. In a New York Times story , Howard French takes a look at the ongoing preparat...
8/20/2009

Siaolin Stands Up

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Bouncing over ruined roads washed out by Typhoon Morakot (some roadbeds have been transformed into river beds), a group of scholars...
8/18/2009

Readings on Liu Xiaobo and Xu Zhiyong

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News came today that legal scholar Xu Zhiyong was formally arrested last week , though he has not yet been charged, according to his lawyer ...
8/16/2009

Readings

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There are several recent pieces on China's internet controls that are worth reading if you haven't already looked at them. First, ...
8/12/2009

Fell Rains

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The people of southern Taiwan are suffering the ravages of the worst flooding to hit the island in 50 years. This tragedy was brought abo...
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China’s Migrant Workers in the Wake of the Economic Crisis: Unemployed, Undeterred

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By Robert D. O’Brien After growing at double-digit rates for most of the last three decades, the Chinese economy is now in jeopardy of faili...
8/11/2009

Rolling the Dice in Macau

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It has been almost a decade now since China regained control of Macau, but the city’s present and future crops up in news coverage much less...
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8/08/2009

On the Web: Images of China

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China Beat readers looking for cool “new” desktop pictures for their computers might want to think old. More and more archives are digitali...
8/06/2009

China Behind the Headlines: Xu Zhiyong

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A few days ago we suggested readings about the disappearance of legal scholar and activist Xu Zhiyong in Beijing. There has been more news ...