Extra! Extra! Lotus feet, Lincoln comparisons and lollygagging doctors
- There aren't many of them still alive, but China still has women who went through and are willing to talk about “lotus feet,” that hundreds-year-old tradition of warping women's feet that was thankfully abolished after the revolution. [Wall Street Journal]
- Paul French talks to author Martin Jacques, who recently published the book When China Rules the World, about Chinese investment and business in Africa, the Middle East and elsewhere, as well as the future of Sino-US relations. [China Rhyming]
- China will finally begin separating suspects arrested for minor offenses from violent criminals as it announces possible reforms to its detention system. The fact that they didn't before gives us the most unimaginable chills. [Time]
- You know what the Dalai Lama's exile doesn't remind us of? The U.S. Civil War. Unfortunately, it seems Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang sees things differently, comparing China kicking out the Dalai Lama to President Lincoln kicking out slavery. [Reuters]
- Hope you've got a lot of RMB in reserve, because it's apparently going to appreciate in coming months. Now if only there was an easier way to exchange our China bank accounts into those soon-to-be lesser currencies. [Financial Times]
- This isn't really going to help China ease its sudden online game restrictions is it? A baby in Nanjing Children's Hospital died on Wednesday, thanks to a doctor who was too busy playing “Go” online to attend to him. [China Daily]
- Ben Sisario of the New York Times talks to some Beijing bands about the underground rock scene in China. Without clicking into the article, can you guess who he talked to? The same ones everyone talks to. Which isn't to say they aren't worth interviewing, but come. on. already. [New York Times]
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