Think twice before you name a new cultural revolution

The world’s most populous nation, the world’s biggest consumer of raw materials, and now the world’s biggest emitter of carbon dioxide, China strides irresistibly towards its economic and political destiny. But as Beijing prepares for its Olympic extravaganza this summer, the cultural life of the 1.3 billion people who live and work in this economic superpower remains a closed book to many in the west – their bestselling authors unfamiliar, their most exciting writers untranslated. 

 

Panda girls? The government shouts out: NO!

The Chengdu Municipal Committee of the National People’s Congress, in west China’s Sichuan province, on Friday confirmed the receipt of the planned law, jointly outlined by the municipal bureaus of forestry, parks and woods. If passed, it would become the world’s first panda law.(Xinhua News Agency Nov 24,2007) Funny. But the funniest part of it is the reason why Chinese government passes such a weird law.

 

Prelude: Commencement of my Blog

When aspiring journalists talk about where they would like to work,they usually mention huge metropolitan newspapers or other media companies with news departments that would make them a foreign or London correspondent.In a word,they want to work for the best places that they can ever pursue and have scores of specialist traveling around the world.They want to have fun,interview some celebrities,cover great events and write about them.