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All the tea in China

Joel — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 05:19:59 +0000

A guy decides to research and drink every single kind of tea in China, one per week, and blog about it. If you like Chinese teas and want to know more about them, this is a great project to check out: The Taobao Tea Trail

China’s “other billion”

Joel — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 01:36:08 +0000

A journalist with over seven years experience in China is taking a six-month journey through rural China to document the lives of China’s “other billion” — the Chinese who aren’t born, raised and educated in relatively developed coastal cities: “I have embarked on what I hope will be a six month journey through the Chinese countryside — listening, watching and telling stories from farmers’ lives. … China, it is often said, has more than 400 million Internet users and hundreds of millions of new urban residents who are changing the face of the country. It is less often noted that China also has another billion people who have not yet been fully included in these new economic and social changes. The following, if you will, are some fragments from the story of the other billion.”

China in 2013 — a dystopian novel skewers “the China model of development”

Joel — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 06:09:49 +0000

The China Beat provides a helpful summary of a dystopian novel critical of the way things are in China: “The novel can be read … as a realistic presentation of the shocking darkness behind the dazzling economic miracle created by the Chinese model. It also proposes that China’s younger generations suffer from the consequences of collective amnesia and historical half-truths… The book can also be read … as an allegory of the modern nation-state. Taking China as a case study, by questioning the morality and political legitimacy of the Chinese model of development, the novel is intended to lead us to the potential catastrophes that a modern nation-state may bring about if it is out of its people’s control.”

Air pollution update & links (it’s getting worse)

Joel — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 02:06:04 +0000

The Ministry of Environmental Protection acknowledged on Monday that the first half of 2010 had the worst air quality since 2005.

The good doctor in Beijing recently conducted a new air pollution survey around the city, comparing indoor and outdoor pollution, and the effects of things like air purifiers.

There’s also an air pollution Q&A with another doctor in Beijing about the actual effects on healthy people and when and where to exercise.

NPR series: “New Believers – a religious revolution in China”

Joel — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 06:18:12 +0000

NPR has an on-going series on the apparent rise of religious belief in China.

Hu Shi’s 1927 editorial on the impending demise of Christianity in China

Joel — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 14:09:35 +0000

While acknowledging the role of foreign Christians in agitating for positive social reform and assisting Chinese resistance to foreign imperial aggression, and while claiming “that there is much cheap argument in the narrow nationalistic attack which sees in the Christian missionary an agent of imperialist aggression”, Dr. Hu Shi predicts in a 1927 editorial that nationalism, rationalism, and humanism will take root in China and successfully kill off Christianity within China.