Blog Tag - People's Daily

Shability: The Government's Fight Against the English Language
It appears that the government is having difficulty accepting the integration of English words into, and the resulting ‘defilement’ of, mainstream...
We Stand Erected: Sizing Up the New People's Daily Headquarters
Netizens have been sniggering lately over photos of the new People's Daily Headquarters, located just a few blocks away from Beijing's other not-so...
News You Might Have Missed: Sexy Man, Jailed Policewoman and Winning Names
China thinks Kim Jong-un is sexy, in case you haven't heard. When will they stop falling for fake-news articles from The Onion? (Not anytime soon,...
News You Might Have Missed: The Middle East, Morals and Mooncakes
China has been making news well beyond its border recently with relationships in the Middle East. Domestically, a recent incident has fueled a...
News You Might Have Missed
Here’s a look at some news and opinions for the past week from the drain of sexpats on Beijing to China’s environmental efforts. Are foreigners...
Summer Drought and Shortages
Living in Beijing, most people are used to certain cuts - service, internet, Google - and with the summer here we can add power cuts and water...
Making Sense of the Census
The results of last fall's Sixth National Census have been released and The People's Daily reports "China has put its excessive population growth...
New Statue & a Revived Museum for Tiananmen Square
While the Great Helmsmen has long cast a wry eye over China’s symbolic center, since last week Tiananmen Square has had a new set of eyes keeping...
Hot Links: Zuckerberg Coming to China, Calls to Move China's Captial & More
  Forbes: TIME Confirms Mark Zuckerberg’s Upcoming China Trip“In Time magazine’s person of the year profile on Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg, a...
ET Hovering Over China?
Citizens of Zhejiang province can now add “alien invasion” to their list of daily worries. Within the past two months, there have been two major...
Stop Press: Japanese Women Marrying Chinese Men!!
It’s always entertaining reading China’s state-owned newspapers, especially when they find a story that mixes latent local resentments and with...