China: Are Tigers Back In Dongbei?

According to China Environmental Protection News, the first photo of a Dongbei tiger in the wild was captured recently, which is the fourth time since 2014 that a tiger has been detected in the region. The photos themselves can be seen on the Forestry Department website here. The photo was taken by a camera trap set […]

China: “No, I have never had any of these”

With what looked like suspicious timing, Ai Weiwei, the CPC’s least favourite artist and political provocateur, had his application for a 6 month UK business visa refused by the British embassy in Beijing, due, the embassy said, to the artist not declaring his criminal convictions. Ai Weiwei hoped to be in the UK in September […]

China: Nightingale Ascending

Nurses in China suffer from overwork and long hours, and increasingly from physical and verbal abuse at the hands of their patients and their families, who are convinced that medical staff are corrupt. The journal Medical World WeChat account posted the resignation letter of one such nurse, who endured all this and more. “It is […]

Water

When they speak of China, the Chinese speak of the South and the North: the South is wet, lush, and the people living there traditionally eat rice, which is a water-intensive crop; the North, on the other hand, is dry, and arid. There’s not much in the way of rice growing in the north of […]

China: “upon all the living and the dead”

It is a little (actually very) late, but the incendiary, self-financed documentary Under the Dome by Chai Jing, one of China’s best known journalists, is worth watching. It is about air pollution, which is finally being debated in China. I recall taking the train from Shanghai to Nanjing, and Shanghai to Hangzhou on successive days, […]

Spilled Water

覆水难收

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