FEATURED ARTICLE how to get him back Meet two Chinese factory workers, Lu Qingmin and Wu Chunming (September 16, 2012, TED Blog)But as Leslie T. Chang, the author of the book Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China, explains in this talk from TEDGlobal 2012, those emotions obscure a larger point that factory workers arent simply toiling to provide cheap products to the West. They are also toiling to make products for their own people, as well as to change their personal circumstances.SPECIAL SECTION: SINO-JAPANESE TENSIONS AND ANTI-JAPANESE PROTESTSIn Photos: China’s anti-Japan fury (September 16, 2012, Shanghaiist)Mao comes back to life amid wide spread anti-Japan protests in China (September 16, 2012, Offbeat China)Anti-Japan protests are hardly news in China. For historical reasons, the Chinese can always find reasons to protest against Japan or call for boycott of Japanese products every few years. Whats special about the protests this weekend are the scale of the violence occurred and the widely use of pictures of Mao Zedong in almost every city that had a protest.Video: Avoiding escalation (September 17, 2012, The Economist)As Leon Panetta flies in for talks in Beijing, our correspondents discuss the diplomatic tensions following anti-Japanese protests in many of China’s citiesCloser Look: How a Protest in Beijing Stuck to the Script (September 17, 2012, Caixin Online)A middle-aged policeman also encouraged me to join the parade. “Can I shout ‘Punish corruptions’?” I inquired. “No, you can’t!” the middle-aged officer said, suddenly seriously. “Only slogans concerned with Diaoyu Islands are allowed,” a young policeman chimed in.Dangerous Waters (September 17, 2012, Foreign Policy)The wave of anti-Japanese protests that swept across dozens of cities in China this weekend, prompted by Tokyo’s purchase of three disputed islands, has obscured a potentially more worrying development that risks drawing the two countries into a larger conflict: China’s adoption of a legal framework empowering it to expel foreign vessels in disputed waters in the East China Sea.Rage at an elite that has stolen China’s soul (September 17, 2012, The Guardian)Behind the current wave of nationalistic fervour is ordinary Chinese people’s anger at a cynical and corrupt regimeSeriously Hooked on Nationalism (September 17, 2012, Jottings from the Granite Studio)The 20th century is littered with examples of anti-foreign, especially anti-Japan, demonstrations which went unexpectedly off-script and subsequently turned against the Chinese government. Jeremy Goldkorn this afternoon tweeted that the demonstrators embrace of Mao was disturbing to this administration because it made Hu Jintao and the rest of the hair-dye shoe-lift brigade look like wimps. The Helmsman would never have allowed Japan to take our rocks and goats, dammit.Chinese government both encourages and reins in anti-Japan protests, analysts say (September 17, 2012, The Washington Post)As anger increases over a territorial dispute between China and Japan, Chinese authorities have been playing both sides of the issue by quietly encouraging recent anti-Japanese protests, then publicly reining them in. Experts point to signs that Chinese authorities have cleared the way and, in some cases, even fueled some of the protests that have erupted in recent days. At the same time, officials have been careful to keep control over the masses, leery that gatherings of malcontents could easily turn against Chinas government.Han Han to Japanese Car Vandals: You Are Not Patriots (September 18, 2012, Tea Leaf Nation)Mega-famous Chinese blogger Han Han has just taken to Weibo, Chinas Twitter, to denounce the violent anti-Japanese protests currently sweeping through China, many of which involve smashing Japanese-made cars.Economic stakes high in China-Japan islands dispute (September 18, 2012, The Los Angeles Times)The worst of the anti-Japanese protests that have swept China in recent days may be over. The financial fallout for the world’s second- and third-biggest economies may be just beginning.Chinese protesters: ‘The Diaoyu islands belong to China!’(September 18, 2012, Behind the Wall)Following a weekend of anti-Japanese protests that engulfed China, demonstrations hit a crescend Tuesday with the 81st anniversary of the start of Japans occupation of China. The Mukden Incident, also known as the Manchurian Incident, was a staged bombing by the Japanese military that served as the pretext for the Japanese invasion of China in 1931. The painful anniversary served to enflame a dispute that has been growing for months over ownership of East China Sea islands called the Senkaku in Japan and Diaoyu in China.China moves to quell anti-Japan protests (+video) (September 18, 2012, Christian Science Monitor)The Chinese government is attempting to contain anti-Japanese sentiment prompted by a dispute over a group of contested uninhabited islands in the East China Sea.Meanwhile, China prepares for war with Japan(September 19, 2012, Human Events)On Tuesday, the Washington Free Beaconreported that General Xu Caihou, chairman of the Central Military Commission and one of Chinas top military leaders, issued a public statement last Friday warning his forces to be prepared for any possible military combat. Intelligence officials say that such a statement from a top general is unusual.Video: China-Japan island dispute: patriotic protests backfire on Beijing (Next Media, via YouTube)GOVERNMENT / POLITICS / FOREIGN AFFAIRSChina’s Vice-President Xi Jinping in public appearance (September15, 2012, BBC News)Chinese Vice-President Xi Jinping has appeared in public for the first time in two weeks.Mr Xi, who is expected to become China’s next leader, attended an event on Saturday to mark national science day, Xinhua news agency reported. No official explanation has been given for his absence, which fuelled widespread speculation. There were rumours about the state of his health and suggestions of power struggles within the Communist party. However, on Saturday China’s official news agency carried a brief report of Mr Xi’s visit to the China Agricultural University in Beijing with a photograph showing the vice-president smiling and walking with other officials.Xis Back, Now Let the Chinese Political Battle Begin (September 17, 2012, China Real Time Report)But as in the case of anti-corruption czar He Guoqiang, who also recently returned following a prolonged stretch out of the public eye, theres every reason to believe that Xi was simply in retreat, gathering forces for the political shootout that the upcoming 18th Party Congress in Beijing promises to be.China’s Xi Jinping in first key meeting since absence (September 18, 2012, BBC News)China’s Vice-President Xi Jinping has met US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta in Beijing, in his first key meeting after a two-week absence. Mr Xi’s unexplained absence from public fuelled widespread rumours over his health and a political struggle. He is expected to become China’s next Communist Party chief and president.Police chief dodges bullet amid praise for exposing Bo’s web of intrigue (September 18, 2012, Sydney Morning Herald)Wang Lijun, Chinas most famous police chief, has accepted a litany of charges against him including that he attempted to defect to the United States. The former right-hand-man of fallen political star Bo Xilai, appears set to avoid a death sentence after a court spokesman yesterday praised his cooperation with authorities.Former Police Chief in China Political Scandal Aided Prosecutors(September 18, 2012, The New York Times)A former Chinese police chief helped to cover up the murder of a British businessman by the wife of a senior Communist Party official, but he also secretly collected evidence used to convict her, according to a lawyer for the police chief and an official account released Tuesday at the end of his trial.U.S. invites China to participate in military exercise (September 18, 2012, Xinhua)U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta invited China to participate in the 2014 Rim of the Pacific Exercise (RIMPAC) during talks held here with Chinese Defense Minister Liang Guanglie on Tuesday.”The U.S. Navy will invite China to send a ship to participate in the RIMPAC 2014 exercise,” Panetta said, emphasizing that the exercise hosted by the U.S. Navy’s Pacific Command is the world’s largest international maritime exercisePanetta said the United States’ goal “is to have the United States and China establish the most important bilateral relationship in the world. And the key to that is to establish a strong military-to-military relationship.”Total Denial and the Will to Forget (September 19, 2012, China Media Project)As we train our eyes on the 18th National Congress with a mind to reading Chinas future, therefore, one of the most important signs to watch will be how Chinas leaders deal with the countrys past. Specifically, how will the political report to the 18th National Congress deal with the Cultural Revolution, that period of political and social upheaval from 1966 to 1976 in which millions of Chinese were persecuted?China official confirms Xi’s absence due to “sport injury” (September 19, 2012, Reuters)China’s leader-in-waiting, Xi Jinping, suffered a back injury from sport, a senior Chinese official said, in the clearest explanation so far from a top party insider on the reasons for Xi’s recent disappearance from public duty. In rare on-the-record comments on Vice President Xi’s health, former Hong Kong leader Tung Chee-hwa, now a vice-chairman of a largely ceremonial advisory body for China’s parliament, said that Xi had injured his back “I believe from swimming”. “He hurt himself in sports and he’s now recovered and he’s now back at work,” Tung told CNN in an interview broadcast in the United States late on Tuesday. Tung has deep-rooted ties with China’s top leaders and was a key adviser to Xi during his visit to the United States earlier this year.Latest twist in Chinese political scandal could land Bo Xilai in prison (September 19, 2012, Globe and Mail)They were once portrayed as Chinas top crime fighters: the Communist Party leader and the police chief who fought side-by-side to break the hold that mafia triads had over the chaotic Yangtze River city of Chongqing. Now the police chief, Wang Lijun, is awaiting sentencing after admitting to crimes of his own that include corruption, abuse of power and attempting to defect to the United States. And his confession, published Wednesday, may land his longtime boss, Bo Xilai formerly one of the most powerful men in China behind bars as well, after Mr. Wang implicated Mr. Bo in covering up a murder.China probes protest around US ambassador’s car(September 20, 2012, AP)China said Wednesday it was investigating an incident where about 50 protesters surrounded the car of the U.S. ambassador, tried to block him from entering the embassy compound and ripped the car’s flagU.S. Ambassador Gary Locke told reporters Wednesday that Chinese authorities were “very quick” to move the demonstrators away. Video posted on YouTube showed a small number of protesters throwing small objects at the car before Chinese security forces moved in to break up the crowd. “It was all over in a matter of minutes, and I never felt in any danger,” Locke said [] State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said the U.S. has registered its concern with China both in Washington and Beijing, and Chinese authorities have expressed regret over the incident. Nuland said the preliminary U.S. assessment was that the car was “a target of opportunity” for protesters who had gathered outside the nearby Japanese Embassy. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei told a regular news briefing Wednesday that the incident was “an individual case,” but that China was investigating it.China Offers Glimpse Of Another New Stealth Fighter (September 19, 2012, NPR)Ahead of high-profile talks in China by U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, there was a high-impact leak. Photos emerged of a second Chinese stealth fighter jet one that had been rumored but never seen before. The J31, as analysts call it, shows how fast China is moving.Did Bo Xilai just become Chinas You-Know-Who? (September 19, 2012, Offbeat China)Xinhuas mastery of storytelling put J. K. Rowling to shame. Throughout the narrative, Wang LiJun was reported to maintain close relationship with Bogu Kailais family and often pay visits to Bogu Kailais home as if in China, its custom to refer a household by the wifes name.[ ] And the best of all, Bo Xilai himself was referred to as the leading official of the Communist Party of Chongqing Committee. This leading official slapped Wang Lijun in the face when Wang reported that Bogu Kailai was suspect of the murder case. The slap in the face, according the article, brought the intensified conflict between Wang and Bogu Kailais family into the open.China’s Bo Xilai implicated in wife’s crime – state media (September 19, 2012, BBC News)China’s state-run news agency has linked fallen politician Bo Xilai to a criminal act for the first time, alleging he knew his wife was suspected of murdering a British businessman. Xinhua quoted witnesses at the trial of his former right-hand man, Wang Lijun, suggesting that Mr Wang had tried to tell him about his suspicions. Mr Wang was “angrily rebuked and had his ears boxed”, Xinhua reports.Mr Bo’s downfall exposed the biggest political crisis in China for years.How China’s Mysterious Leadership Changes Work (September 20, 2012, Business Insider, via Yahoo!)China’s due for a handover of power to the ‘fifth generation’ of communist party leaders in mid-October.While much has been made of the transition, there’s still a lot of confusion about the structure of the Chinese Communist Party, its make-up, how leaders are chosen and how long they can stay in power.Hu’s legacy – the good, bad and ugly (September 20, 2012, Asia Times Online)Chinese President Hu Jintao’s legacy is muddied by the country’s (technology-driven) greater freedom of expression, and the emergence of new enemies with the demotion of Bo Xilai. Yet as he reaped the success of earlier reforms he can claim real achievement in some areas, notably in relations with Taiwan.RELIGIONVideo: Last Call to Prayer: Chinas Female Mosques (September 18, 2012, China File)Chinas Hui Mulsims are unique in many respects. The countrys second-largest ethnic minority share linguistic and cultural ties with the majority in China that have allowed them to practice their religion with less interference and fewer restrictions than others, like Uighur Muslims and Tibetans. Outside of China, the Hui practice of installing women as the head of female-only mosques has been viewed with criticism and admiration. In this video, we look inside the lives of Hui women and what the practice, and the religion, means to them.The Public Nature of House Churches and State-Church Relations in China (September 19, 2012, Pacific Institute for Social Sciences)Finding a harmonious balance between public policy and Christian belief was, is and will be the biggest challenge for relations between the state and house churches.[] This paper discusses the relationship between the state and house churches from the perspective of a researcher on house churches. House churches are extremely complicated. The generalization of house churches in this paper is preliminary. Some viewpoints in the paper do not represent the view of the house churches as a whole or even of certain house churches. They are only the personal observations of the author.HEALTHCervical cancer threatens 30% Chinese women: doctors (September 19, 2012, Shanghai Daily)The incidence of cervical cancer among Chinese women has increased from less than 5 percent 20 years ago to 30 percent now due to early exposure to sex life, medical experts told a conference today.Experts said public education on cervical cancer and popularization of screening are the most effective way to control the spread of the disease, so far the only preventable and treatable cancer. But most Chinese women are unaware of cervical cancer prevention and clinical screening is lacking, doctors said.Bird flu hits Guangdong (September 19, 2012, Shanghai Daily)THE H5N1 avian flu virus has been detected in the city of Zhanjiang in south China’s Guangdong province, experts confirmed yesterday. The virus has infected 14,050 ducks and killed 6,300 of them since September 11, when symptoms were first reported, a Ministry of Agriculture official said. After the epidemic was confirmed, local authorities cordoned off an infected area in the city and killed all poultry in the area before starting to decontaminate it, the official said.The Horrific Cost of Chinas Breakneck Development: Cancer Villages (September 19, 2012, Tea Leaf Nation)Follow the spread of Chinas development and youll find a shadow in its wake: Cancer villages. These are the places where the price for Chinas dizzying pace of development is highest, where cancer rates have skyrocketed in the last two decades and almost no family is without a victim.EDUCATION / CULTUREScholars with Spine: Notes from the field of China studies (August 27, 2012, National Review, via Initiatives for China)Cohen played a key role in the negotiations that led to Chens departure from the country. Chen is now at NYU, under Cohens supervision. Not many are the China scholars in the West who are willing to stick their neck out for Chinese dissidents, democrats, and other troublemakers.The Politics of Student Cadres (September 11, 2012, The Economic Observer)Obtaining a high position in university student unions requires political jockeying and social maneuvering thats sometimes compared to that of actual government officials. Once in office, the student cadres continue to live lives much like those of government leaders, and in fact, often go on to become government leaders.Across Inner Mongolia with Dan Carruthers: the 2012 Genghis Khan Mountain Bike Adventure (September 12, 2012, China Travel)Dan Carruthers, known on the interwebz as Bikedan in Asia, recently took part in the Genghis Khan Mountain Bike Adventure, a rugged and thrilling trek across the Inner Mongolian grasslands. The pictures of the event found on this page are courtesy of Kirk Kenny. Here, Dan tells us about his experience.Crisis of identity among Chinese university students (September 14, 2012, East Asia Forum)With Chinas rapid socioeconomic development and the popularisation of higher education, Chinese universities have become indispensable social institutions that inherit Chinese culture, maintain societal values and cultivate social elites. Yet there has been widespread controversy and doubt about the quality of higher education in China. Chinese university students frequently have mixed feelings about their universitys reputation, their choice of major and their experience of university teaching.Visas as Anti-Access Weapons (September 17, 2012, Foreign Policy)Chinese influence has a long arm. Academics far, far away from Asia sometimes modify their behavior lest Beijing disapprove of their words or deeds and take countermeasures.How long does it take to learn Mandarin? (September 17, 2012, Sapore di Cina)Good question, isnt it? First of all, I believe that we are our habits and that our habits are influenced by our goals and the external environment. Hence I think you can roughly predict how long it will take you to learn Mandarin by honestly answering to which of the following categories you belong. SOCIETY / LIFEChinas Gender Imbalances: Ready, Able, Squeeze (September 11, 2012, The China Story)In 2011, China recorded an official sex ratio at birth (SRB) of 117.78 (boys for every one hundred girls), making it well and truly the most gender imbalanced country in the world, a rank it has held since the mid-1980s when the SRB first moved into the abnormal range (above 107). Sub-national figures are even more alarming, with the one per cent inter-census survey in 2005 revealing six provinces that recorded SRBs over 130 for the one-four age group, and nine provinces that exceeded 160 for second-order births.Beijing to allow tourists 72-hour, visa-free stays (September 17, 2012, Shanghai Daily)Overseas travelers soon will be able to enjoy a visa-free stay of up to 72 hours while in transit in Beijing to attract more tourism spending in the capital city, officials said over the weekend. Ding Xiangyang, vice mayor of Beijing, said spending by foreigners is usually three times that of domestic travelers and the new policy of a 72-hour visa-free visit should increase the city’s tourism income, the Beijing News reported yesterday. Experts expect the 72-hour policy to bring 400 million yuan (US$63 million) to Beijing every year. The new policy has been approved by the State Council but no timetable for its introduction was announced.Weibos Limits and the Ballad of Chinas Middle Class (September 18, 2012, China Digital Times)Comments from Chinas microblogs have become a common element of news coverage as concise but colourful illustrations of the popular mood. At Asia Societys ChinaFile, however, Amy Qin points out that Weibo offers an incomplete reflection of Chinese society.A 1300-foot-high cable is the only access to a Chinese village [6 pictures] (September 18, 2012, 22Words)The 200 people who live in the village of Yushan in Chinas Hubei Province used to have to walk several days to get to the nearest village. But then in the late 90s they were connected to the outside world by cable car. Though unquestionably convenient, this public transit is more than a little unnerving. It swings in the breeze 1,300 feet above the valley that separates villagers from their destination. And it stretches 3,280 feet a full kilometer.The Parent-Child Relationship According to Confucian and Communist Ideologies (September 18, 2012, Matt on China)In this essay I will show that, despite retaining a surface-level resemblance, attitudes to the parent-child relationship in Communist China are fundamentally different to the original Confucian teachings. Furthermore, I will argue that this change should not necessarily be viewed as symptomatic of the moral decline of modern China, but simply as another example of the evolutionary process that is inevitable in any ancient ideology.Can the Frog Jump Before the Water Boils? (September 19, 2012, The New York Times)Mr. Wang likened China to the frog in a pot of slow-boiling water. While the temperature is still comfortable, no one is willing to make changes, he said in a speech in Foshan that was widely disseminated online and in newspapers. By the time the water is too hot, its too late, he said.The system is riddled with economic and political inefficiencies, and discontent is rising, Mr. Wang warned.Pinyin jumps aboard nation’s trains (September 19, 2012, China Daily)If you go to Beijing South Railway Station over the National Day holiday, don’t be surprised if the name has been changed into Beijingnan Railway Station. The change is to comply with a regulation by the Ministry of Railways to standardize the English translation of names of rail stations. The rule, in effect since Sept 1, requires the direction in the railway stations names to be spelled in pinyin as opposed to English. “As an intrinsic part of the railway station’s name, it is for the convenience of foreign friends and locals that the direction is spelled in pinyin,” said Wang Bin, the publicity officer of the ministry. But it may take some time for railway stations nationwide to change the names. The signs at the railway stations and the names on the train tickets will also be changed, the ministry said.SCIENCE / TECHNOLOGY / ENVIRONMENTChina to accelerate broadband development (September 18, 2012, China Daily)China will accelerate the development of broadband web access in a bid to shore up the country’s economic and social development, according to a statement released Tuesday. In the statement issued on the website of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT), Liu Lihua, MIIT vice minister, said China aims have more than 250 million broadband users by the end of 2015, with Internet access speeds in urban and rural areas reaching 20 megabits and 4 megabits, respectively. Liu also said broadband service coverage in China’s rural areas will hit 95 percent by 2015.China launches two satellites for navigation system (September 19, 2012, China Daily)China successfully launched another two satellites into space for its indigenous global navigation and positioning network at 3:10 am Beijing Time Wednesday, the launch center said. They were the 14th and 15th satellites for the Beidou system, or Compass system. The satellites, launched from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in the southwestern Sichuan povince, were boosted by a Long March-3B carrier rocket.BUSINESS / ECONOMICS / FOREIGN TRADEForeigners in China Must Learn the Rules of the Road (September 14, 2012, Bloomberg)It is true that foreigners are never really viewed as Chinese. The sooner foreigners accept that, and learn what limitations that means, the faster they can focus on building profitable businesses.Are You A Guanxi Tease?(September 14, 2012, Chinese Negotiation)Western negotiators in China may be sending mixed messages without knowing it.U.S. to File W.T.O. Case Against China Over Cars (September 16, 2012, The New York Times)The Obama administration plans to file a broad trade case at the World Trade Organization in Geneva on Monday accusing China of unfairly subsidizing its exports of autos and auto parts, a senior administration official said late Sunday, in a move with clear political implications for the presidential elections less than two months away. The W.T.O. case accuses China of providing at least $1 billion worth of subsidies from 2009 to 2011 for exports of autos and auto parts.China launches WTO challenge to U.S. anti-subsidy tariffs(September 17, 2012, Reuters)China filed a complaint at the World Trade Organization on Monday to challenge a new U.S. law on “countervailing duties”, or tariffs intended to combat export-promoting subsidies. The complaint, filed hours after the United States said it would launch a wide-ranging trade complaint against China’s support for car exports, potentially affects close to 30 products that have previously been targeted by U.S. duties, a trade official familiar with the case said. He said the complaint was aimed at a U.S. law passed in March which allowed the United States to apply countervailing measures to Chinese exports retrospectively.China manufacturing shrinks for 11th month (September 20, 2012, Reuters)Manufacturing in China contracted for the 11th month in a row in September, according to a private sector survey of factory managers that indicated the world’s second largest economy remains on track for a seventh quarter of slowing growth. The HSBC Flash China manufacturing purchasing managers’ index (PMI) showed activity stabilized in September after hitting a nine-month low in August, with the headline reading ticking up to 47.8 from 47.6 last month. But while the economy may not have worsened, there were few signs of a fast turnaround. Rather, the PMI, which provides the first glimpse of September’s conditions for Chinese industry, pointed to a month in which a slide was halted but not reversed.Yuan Hits Fresh High Against Dollar (September 20, 2012, The Wall Street Journal)China’s yuan reached its highest level against U.S. dollar in seven months on Thursday, as fresh economic data offered hopes for a stabilizing economy. Since late last year, the yuan has weakened modestly against the dollar, falling as much as 1.6% against the U.S. currency in late July. But the Chinese currency has reversed course recently and hit a seven-month intraday high during Thursday’s trading, at 6.2945 against the dollar. 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