Chinese Culture Blog

Certainly one of the more amusing intellectual property stories to come out of China in recent months: A DODGY Chinese company has plastered David Beckham's name on condoms, claiming users will ... Read More

As you may have read in the news, southern China has been badly hit by a rash of unusual snow storms, the worst in at least thirty years. Local authorities were ... Read More

Should I run behind a bus and breathe in the exhaust? Should I train on the highway during rush hour? Is there any way to acclimate myself to pollution? Randy Wilber, ... Read More

"An almost complete human skull fossil that could date back 100,000 years has been unearthed in China with state media hailing it as the greatest discovery since Peking Man," Reuters ... Read More

China seems on the way to surpassing the US in all things--cars, carbon dioxide emissions, consumption--and now soon, the internet. According to the Wall Street Journal: China's total number of Internet users ... Read More

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown stressed climate change and economic cooperation during his visit to China this week. Virgin's Sir Richard Branson was among the 25 UK business leaders ... Read More

Yet another African country has switched its allegiance from Taipei to Beijing. Chad did the same in August as did Senegal in October 2006. There are now only ... Read More

To: the Chinese internet public Explain me this. A Chinese elementary student, Zhang Shufan, told a CCTV reporter that the last time she went on the internet, she was unexpectedly greeted by ... Read More

The Shanghaiist writes about a man in Hubei Province who was killed for using his cameraphone to record a protest against a municipal waste dump: Wei Wenhua, a manager at a ... Read More

Danwei writes about a U.S. soldier of Chinese descent who has been blogging about the war in Iraq in Mandarin. By Jennifer Brea, About.com Guide to World News