Danwei introduces us to Jia Pingwa, a novelist from Shaanxi Province whose 1993 bestseller Abandoned Capital became the first book in China banned after publication. Jia's new novel, Gaoxing (高兴) or ... Read More

Shanghaiist has an unearthed an absolutely adorable YouTube video of kindergarten-aged students in Taiwan performing a modified version of "Can't Touch This" for their school variety show. The kids apparently attend ... Read More

Chinese have sex just as often as anyone; they just don't talk about it China Daily publishes the results of a highly unscientific poll by condom maker, Durex, which found that ... Read More

Danwei has an interesting post about ethnomusicologists who spend their careers traveling to some of China's most remote regions to document vanishing musical traditions. Chinese music scholars have collected and compiled ... Read More

The planned high-speed railway linking Beijing and Shanghai just got the green light from the central government, which, according to China Daily, means construction will begin soon. Currently, it takes ten ... Read More

Forget labor standards, human rights, and an often unsentimental attitude towards cultural artificats; the dirty underbelly of China's economic miracle is, hands down, pollution. China's rapid industrialization is turning whole regions ... Read More

Chinese health officials have agreed to stop the practice of harvesting executed prisoners' organs, except for use by their immediate families. The practice has long been a blemish on China, which ... Read More

China Daily reports that 1.41 million people in Zhejiang and Fujian provinces have been evacuated in advance of Typhoon Krosa, which has already left several dead or missing in Taiwan ... Read More