Exporting China's Development to the World, a weblog with a mouthful of a title run by a group of anthropologists from Macquarie University (Sydney) and Free University (Amsterdam), tells us of how China is expanding its efforts in controlling influencing Chinese-language media outside of China. more ›

Tencent aired this commercial during the CCTV Gala last week, the most expensive air time on Chinese television. It resonated with the thousands of Chinese working and studying abroad, and probably with anybody else who's ever felt that thousands of miles can sometimes bring you closer to the ones you love. more ›

Two months ago, in Singapore, the naked body of a 24 year old Chinese woman, Li Hongyan, was found floating in the pool of a bungalow owned by a real estate tycoon located in the posh Sentosa Cove district. The woman had been working in Singapore at an Indian restaurant, but was moonlighting as a karaoke hostess. more ›

Not being very interested in physics beyond oohing and aahing at the Large Hadron Collider, there's not much we can say about this that hasn't already been said, so we'll keep our congratulations to Charles K. Kao for sharing a win for the 2009 Nobel Prize short. Kao may hold American and British citizenship, but as we've been told by numerous people in this country, you never stop being Chinese no matter where you go/where you're born. In this case, Kao was born in Shanghai. Which means that he won it for us. more ›

In this latest episode of Sexy Beijing, Sufei meets up with Shanghai-born Qiu Xiaolong (裘小龙), author of the award-winning Inspector Chen series of mystery novels, Death of a Red Heroine (2000), A Loyal Character Dancer (2002), When Red Is Black (2004), A Case of Two Cities (2006), and Red Mandarin Dress. Qiu currently lives in St Louis, Missouri and writes all his books (and poetry) in English, and only recently have his works been translated in Mandarin. His Wikipedia entry includes the following tidbit:

He originally visited the United States in 1988 to write a book about T. S. Eliot, but following the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 a newspaper reported on his previous fundraising efforts for Chinese students, and he was forced to remain in America to avoid persecution by the Communist Party of China.