The Jade of China, Alive With Meaning Yet Glossily Elusive: Abook called "A Treatise on Superfluous Things" was a manual of style for climbers in the courts of the Ming dynasty. It skipped over the basics that everyone knew—you should be nice to your parents; only emperors wear yellow—to give tips on fine points of discrimination in luxury items. Jade is among the materials discussed. And at first glance, "superfluous" seems just the word for the preposterously exquisite jade objects, from scepters to table screens to paperweights, on display in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's reinstalled galleries for Chinese decorative arts. [NYT, reg. req.]
China jails fake milk sellers: Two Chinese men have been jailed for selling fake milk powder in the eastern Chinese province of Anhui. The government says 12 babies died from starvation after drinking the formula. Local press reports say as many as 50 babies died.
Wife Beating Grows in China as Economy Roars Ahead: Xiao Li, a 32-year-old nurse, still weeps when she recalls the first time her tour guide fiance beat her up. The couple was bickering over how to renovate a newly purchased apartment in Beijing when the argument dissolved into shoves and punches in full view of neighbors and security guards.
China knife killer 'had job fears': The doorman who stabbed 15 children and three teachers in a Beijing nursery on Wednesday may have been worried about losing his job. The nursery is to shut in September, prompting speculation that Xu Heping—who has a history of mental illness—feared being made redundant.
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