Results tagged “bajin”

The propaganda department is definitely going into overdrive this week. First, if you still didn't know that China has political parties other than the CCP, the People's Daily has an interesting backgrounder of the eight parties, with short descriptions of the history of the parties and their membership size and make-up. These parties are namely: the Revolutionary Committee of the Chinese Kuomintang (RCCK), China Democratic League (CDL), China National Democratic Construction Association (CNDCA), China Association...

At least that's what celeb writer Yu Qiuyu (余秋雨) said at a recent public function. From Slate Indiaenews.com we found this report:

Have you heard the one about the guy who suggested we lift up all the old buildings on the Bund several meters and cram a shopping mall underneath them? No? It's a good one. It goes something like --

Popular Chinese internet search engine Baidu.com recently announced the 10 most popular search queries for 2005, reports the Star Daily (via the Shanghai Daily China news blog). Here they are, in order of popularity (we think):

Ba Jin, one of China's foremost writers of the 20th century, passed away in Shanghai on October 17. Ba Jin was known as an anarchist intellectual that attacked the traditional Confucian family orthodoxy as well as capitalists and other scumbags he didn't like. He was condemned during the Cultural Revolution and eventually "rehabilitated" in 1977. His literary career started in the 1929 with the publication of his first novel, Miewang, but he only became known as one of China's literary lights with the 1931 publication of the novel Jia 《家》(Family). Post-1977, Ba Jin began to take stock of his own life and past, writing several memoir books, the most famous being Random Thoughts, or 《随想录》 as it's better known in Chinese. Ba Jin also has been the chief editor of Harvest or 《收获》 literary magazine since 1957, a magazine which focuses on discovering new literary talent. This magazine is still going strong today; you can easily find it in any bookshop or even in some of the magazine and periodical stands on the street.