Xiao Qiang

From The Guardian: In the fourth part of our series, Jonathan Watts reports from China, where rising demand for meat from a growing middle class is destabilising world food prices. … young Beijingers are becoming as enthusiastic about French fries, burgers and fried chicken as their counterparts in…

Nanjing-based blogger Tian Shewong (田舍翁) writes, translated by CDT: Today Sohu carried an essay with the topic “Experts have stated the ‘Chinese Model’ is facing a life and death trial, and cannot boast of flourishing.” This essay can still be considered fair; the author calls on us to do some intro…

From the New York Times blog: Terril Jones had only shown the photograph to friends. While working as a reporter in Beijing during the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, he shot many photographs and recorded several hours of video. It wasn’t until weeks afterwards, when he had returned to Japan, tha…

From Chosun Iibo: Chinese police in 2003 found the bodies of 56 North Koreans drifting down the Apnok River in October 2003, a newly published police log says. The 56 had apparently been shot trying to escape the North. North Korea Economy Watch, a U.S. website, on Saturday carried photos from a rep…

Isabel Hilton writes on the Guardian: The news that the US president, Barack Obama, had called for an end to internet censorship at a meeting with students in Shanghai lasted 27 minutes on the front page of the Chinese portal NetEase before being deleted, according to China Digital Times. But it did…

From Radio Free Asia: The wife and two children of a jailed Chinese rights lawyer have been granted political asylum in the United States. Zhang Qing, the wife of jailed Chinese rights lawyer Guo Feixiong, and their two children were notified of their status on Nov. 19, she told RFA’s Mandarin servi…

Covering China from Cyberspace

From the New York Times: Despite China’s mantra that the Google issue should not be “politicized,” it is, at the end of the day, highly politicized, especially inside China. Xiao Qiang, founder and editor in chief of China Digital Times, said that China’s leaders once saw the Internet as having both…

Elliott Ng wrote on the cnreviews blog: The slang term 小资（xiao3 zi1) came up over dinner with my friends Min and Kai. I was discussing a Website I liked, and Min responded, “I don’t like that site. It’s too 小资.” Well, I had never heard the term. What is it? Min responded: “I don’t know […]

CDT cannot verify any information presented by Guo Wengui. For the past six months, from his $67 million perch over Manhattan, Guo Wengui, a billionaire with known ties to former top Chinese intelligence officials, has been hurling allegations against Party leaders that have shaken Zhongnanhai, pro…