National Geographic's DVD China's Lost Girls is available for pre-order at Amazon.com for $13.99. It ships March 1, 2005.
Tuesday, January 11, 2005
Political Cartoon
This political cartoon, entitled, "The One Child Unemployed" has a mother taking care of a teen-aged son asking, "Aren't you ever going to leave the nest?"
Monday, January 10, 2005
News
Pollution Worsens in China's Seas: A total of 169,000 square kilometers failed to reach the standard of clean water, an increase of 16.0 percent from the previous year. The most heavily polluted areas were concentrated along the coastline, including Bohai Bay and the mouth of the Yangtze River.
China 'ready for Taiwan flights': A delegation of Taiwanese opposition legislators says China has agreed to the first direct charter flights between Taiwan and the mainland.
Sunday, January 09, 2005
Culture
Mystery of Ancient Carvings Lives On: Tucked away in the depth of Beishan Mountain of Zhongwei County, northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, Damaidi is one of the country's enduring mysteries. Thousands of years ago people carved hundreds of symbols into rocks. Who were they, and why did they painstakingly carve petroglyphs of animals and other figures?
Bringing Kunqu Opera to Life on Campuses: Chinese college students, traditional Kunqu opera will no longer be just a description in a textbook, but a part of campus life. This year, the Ministry of Culture has required each of the country's seven professional Kunqu theatres to give 20 free public performances at Chinese colleges yearly.
In pictures—Harbin ice festival: Thousands of visitors are flocking to China's Heilongjiang province for the 21st International Ice and Snow Festival in Harbin.
Tibetan language website launched: A Tibetan language website (www.qh-tibetan.com) on Tibetan culture and progress in areas inhabited by Tibetan people opened recently in Qinghai Province, a multi-ethnic area in northwest China.
Regions and territories—Tibet: Tibet, a remote and strongly-Buddhist territory known as the "roof of the world", is governed as an autonomous region of China.
News
Wealthy Chinese Kids Have Worse Nutrition: A Chinese study has found that children from wealthy families are more likely to suffer bad nutrition than those from low-income homes, partly because they eat more fast food.
Smog enveloped Hong Kong for a fifth of 2004: Hong Kong's pollution problem worsened markedly in 2004 with the city cloaked in choking smog for 65 days throughout the year.
Shanghai Farmers Richest in China: According to the statistics released by Shanghai Municipal Agricultural Administration, the per capita annual income of Shanghai farmers amounted to 7,300 yuan (US$880) last year. (That's $2.40 a day!)
A Divide China Must Conquer: To understand today's China, it is necessary to look beyond the unfathomable ebb and flow of 1.3 billion people. It is only by studying the few that it is possible to grasp what is happening to the overwhelming many—like Yu Jikui, a porter whose slight by a passer-by set off riots in Wanzhou; or the young Yang Shan, whose parents both work in distant cities; or the developer Zhang Yuchen, who built a castle fit for Marie Antoinette where 800 farmers once grew wheat. [NYT: free reg. req.]
Friday, January 07, 2005
Stamps
The USPS is taking preorders for the Lunar New year reissue of all 12 stamps in the series.
(Thanks Roy from PAC!)
News
China to make sex-selective abortions a crime: China is to outlaw the selective abortion of female fetuses to correct an imbalance in the ratio of boys to girls that has grown since the one-child policy was introduced more than 20 years ago.
China's suicide bridge sentinel: A bridge in eastern China that had become a notorious suicide spot has seen a dramatic reduction of deaths in the last year, after one man began voluntarily patrolling it.
Local Story
Long road to adoptions: Heather, now headteacher at The Drive Community Primary School in Felling, adopted her from an orphanage in Shenzhen, southern China. Ella was just 16 months old when they first met, an emotional experience that will stay with Heather for ever.
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