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Thirty years of Reform and Opening-up in China. Ai Jing is a popular Chinese singer who was born in Shenyang in 1969. Once in a while, she sings a Russian song with Chinese lyrics, and some of her songs are about childhood memories - Once upon a Time in Yanfen Street is one of those memory [...]

Chinalyst has opened its China Blog Awards 2008. Justrecently isn’t competing but has voted for mylaowai.com.
This is meant to be sort of a recommendation to do likewise, so I should say why. I’ll give you my reasons in a Chinese order - I’ll start with more trivial reasons and finish with my most important reason.
a) [...]

In a post of November 28, Zeng Jinyan takes the opportunity of Thanksgiving Day to thank the readers of her blog for reading, even though most posts’ contents are painful. She also thanks the commenters, no matter if they offer support or speak out against her posts. The time readers take to write and react encourages her [...]

In February 1972, Dr Vitaly A. Rubin, a Senior Research Fellow in Chinese Studies at Moscow’s Institute of Oriental Studies, applied for an exit visa to emigrate to Israel. Rubin was Jewish, educated in the orthodox tradition of his people. Following his visa application, he was pressured into resigning his position at the Institute, his [...]

In 2001, mainland Chinese actress Zhao Wei wore a dress depicting the Japanese military flag for a fashion shoot for the Japanese magazine Bazaar. Once the photo was published, she immediately came under fire from the Chinese public where widespread condemnation eventually led to her apology regarding the matter. Fast forward to today, former “Super [...]

It was windy today, and rainy, with some snow in between, humid and cold. At nightfall, the wind had abated, and the rain turned into snow altogether. Now there’s one or two centimeters on the roads and squares, and it may become 15 centimeters until tomorrow, according to the weather forecasts.
It’s a beautiful, silent night [...]

Saxony built its successful educational system from the scratch after the end of The German Democratic Republic (GDR, aka East Germany) in 1990, says Der Spiegel. In natural sciences, it is among the world’s top educational systems now - very different from most German schools elsewhere. There are traditional reasons for this, too. East Germany’s [...]

From Mop & NetEase (no longer accessible):

It has not been long since the Kaiping Incident happened, a friend of mine sent me a video, asking me to translate the dialogue inside. This video is about 9 minutes long, the schoolgirl in the video first being beaten by schoolmates, then forced to take off her clothes [...]

The following is a translation of an open letter by 49 - or 65 - China scientists *), publicists and politicians in Germany. They refer to an initial open letter written by Chinese dissidents, by German authors et al which is the topic in my post of November 14.
Then follows a link to and a quote from a [...]

Chinese dissidents living in Germany wrote an open letter to Germany’s federal parliament, the Bundestag, on September 13. They complained about Germany’s international radio station Deutsche Welle (Voice of Germany) and its China coverage.
Their criticism targeted the station’s Chinese service and its then deputy department manager Zhang Danhong. Signed by a number of people from [...]