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18 Nov 09
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“Father’s Prairie, Mother’s River” – the feelings of one billion people on the move Everyone knows China is going through an industrial revolution right now. In developed countries such as the U.S., this took place in the late 19th century. The ratio between the number of rural and urban residents basically swapped because... |
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17 Nov 09
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Hu and Obama meeting, which issues are “core interests?” Both NPR and Xinhua covered the meeting of the U.S. President Obama and Chinese President Hu. I thought the coverage were actually decent in that the issues they list were basically identical. Obviously, NPR did not give equal weight to how the Chinese... |
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17 Nov 09
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Ah, that tricky Chinese propaganda machine, how devious it is to deceive the foreign media! It was practically a news story that wrote itself. Soon after president Obama made a roundabout endorsement of non-censorship, it was reported via twitter and then repeated by the China Digial Times that China pulled the coverage from news portal NetEase... |
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16 Nov 09
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Ou, bummer! Now we have a real dispute between China and U.S. President Obama is currently visiting China and the very first dispute is shaping up between China and U.S., namely, what his name is and where he lives.
The U.S. embassy is trying to standardize the way “Obama” is transliterated in Mandarin... |
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15 Nov 09
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Chinese Copyright Protection in the Age of Digital Books, Creative Commons, Remixes, and Mashups This may sound like a Dilbert kind of approach, but some problems are solved if you wait long enough. Copyright protection is certainly a case in point.
The United States has been a patient critic of Chinese copyright protection, but according to Wei... |
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15 Nov 09
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Understanding China geopolitically I just came across this old post on Sun-Bin:http://sun-bin.blogspot.com/2008/10/john-mauldins-geopolitics-of-china.html, which I am sure most of you must have read, most of the points in that article are valid and verifiable, but there are two I believe... |
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14 Nov 09
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Announcement: bilingual essay contest for rural Chinese students “Voices of Change: Educational reform I’d expect”
While Chinese education has experienced rapid development in the past decade, there are numerous challenges, which caused people to call education to be one of the “three mountains (heal... |
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13 Nov 09
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Now here is an idea for people looking for Chinese (looking) tattoos At the Berlin Wall anniversary celebration a couple of days ago, the Germans arranged a thousand pieces of eight-foot tall Styrofoam slabs, symbolizing Berlin Wall pieces and each decorated with various arts, into a line of dominoes and started their... |
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13 Nov 09
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Fear of Kubin is the end of wisdom Wolfgang Kubin, Bonn University Professor of Chinese Studies, is a well-known critic of Chinese literature, a critic in every sense of the word. Every time he speaks about Chinese literature, he makes waves among observers of Chinese literature. He was... |
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11 Nov 09
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Happy Single’s Day November 11th has now emerged as a new holiday, dedicated to the singles, in China. It essentially serves as the opposite of the western Valentine’s Day on February 14th and the Chinese Valentine’s day on July 7th (lunar calendar).
In China,... |
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10 Nov 09
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The Fall of the Berlin Wall on our Mind… The Fall of the Berlin some 20 years ago is again on the mind of many. According to the NYTimes, “[t]he historical legacy of 1989, when the Berlin Wall fell and the cold war thawed, is as political as the upheavals of that decisive year.”
For... |
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06 Nov 09
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Who Holds the Family Purse in China? Despite great strides made over gender equality in the last 60 years, there are still a lot China can do as a nation to promote greater equality and promote the livelihoods of women – especially in the rural areas.
But in the city at least, the... |
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03 Nov 09
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Fool’s Mountain’s Photo Page Fools Mountain’s Favorites on Flickr
Some of you might have noticed the “Photos” page on our top navigation. I want to give you a quick introduction. We now have a “photostream” on Flickr.com containing photos of China we... |
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28 Oct 09
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How to more effectively brainwash others with your ideas Mark Rosenfelder over at zompist.com has a really good article about how to debate, titled, “HOW TO ARGUE WITH ZOMPIST or, Social Skills 101.” (This link came via courtesy of Wukailong.) The article is not about brainwashing others with your... |
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24 Oct 09
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Psst … is China a currency manipulator and cause of the world financial crisis? According to an op-ed by Paul Krugman in the NY Times today, China is not only a currency manipulator, but also a cause of the world financial crisis. I usually have some respect for Mr. Krugman, so I’ll try to take his op-ed seriously.
Krugman... |
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21 Oct 09
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The folklore behind a Chinese antithetical couplet The NYT just posted a report on how Cantonese is being “swept aside” by Mandarin in Chinatowns of North America. This post has nothing to do with that story.
The photo above is used by the NYT to illustrate a New York Chinese School... |
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21 Oct 09
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Lou Jing: Racism Gone Wild? Lou Jing (娄婧) entered a competition reality show called “Let’s Go! Oriental Angels” (加油！东方天使) on Dragon TV. Though born and raised in Shanghai and a Chinese citizen all her life, her story is quite complicated. Her mother was marr... |
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20 Oct 09
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China-ASEAN Free Trade Area on schedule According to a Xinhua report, the 6th China-ASEAN Expo is being held in Nanning, Guangxi province, Oct 20 – Oct 24th.
I have mentioned in the past, that Asia is underway to form its own free trade zone like the E.U.. (For material goods,) the... |
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15 Oct 09
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【风华国乐】 琵琶语 (Pi Pa Language) / 蒋彦 (琵琶) 林海 (作曲) |
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09 Oct 09
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What Lies between Chinese Writers and the Nobel Prize Nobel Prize for Literature was just awarded to Herta Müller, born in Romania and productive in Germany. This came somewhat to my surprise even though I had not been playing with a crystal ball. Shortly before the announcement, one prominent member o... |
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05 Oct 09
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Interview with Dr. Edwina Pendarvis (III): Teacher and Parent Roles in Education Question: In your opinion, are teachers in the US given enough latitude to teach effectively?
IDEA (a law for programs for students with disabilities), Title I (a part of a law for programs for economically disadvantaged students), our equal opportunity... |
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05 Oct 09
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【风华国乐】:阿里山的姑娘 (Girls of Ali Mountain) Mind as well dress all these musicians in panda costumes. |
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02 Oct 09
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Interview with Dr. Edwina Pendarvis (II): Chinese vs. US Education Question: If you can comment on the differences between the Chinese and US educational systems that would be great. If not, from your experience working with US students and Chinese students, what are some of the things that stand out to you as being... |
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01 Oct 09
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Nitpicking Media’s Coverage of PRC’s 60th Anniversary Parade I watched the national day parade on TV with my family, and liked it. As expected, the Chinese government managed to put out an impressive show. Then I read some media’s coverage of the parade. Well, let’s just say that those writings were as... |
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01 Oct 09
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Interview with Dr. Edwina Pendarvis (I): Anti-Intellectualism in US Schools Recently there has been much discussion in both China and the US about the advantages or disadvantages of education in both countries. For instance, Mr. Robert Compton made a movie called 2 Million Minutes, which advocates learning from China and India... |
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29 Sep 09
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Responding to Zhang Weiwei – Democracy and China I would like to thank btbr403 for translating Zhang’s article that was recently posted on to Fools Mountain. In it he said that he had never found an example of a developing country that had “realized its modernization through democratization”... |
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29 Sep 09
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Xinhua: “China, Japan, ROK pledge to advance all-round partnership” In my prior post about Japan’s new Prime Minister, Yukio Hatoyama’s opinion piece on the NYT, I was encouraged by Hatoyama’s view of an Asian Union. This is an interesting trend I encourage our readers to follow. Xinhua reported... |
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25 Sep 09
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Mmm, mmm, mm … Barack Hussein Obama! Here is something interesting I found on Youtube. For all the talk about China spreading propaganda and indoctrinating their children – you know teaching children about the greatness of their nation, their leader, their history … about th... |
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24 Sep 09
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Sustaining Fools Mountain Dear Readers and Contributors,
Many of you know, Fools Mountain is a very unique blog and is one that is widely recognized in the China blogsphere. To date, all the costs associated with hosting and bandwidth have been paid privately by admin. We would... |
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23 Sep 09
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Sound Unlimited! Louis Yu’s new show called Sound Unlimited has hit the net. This show features indie music from all over the world, including the hottest bands in China. The format is in Chinese and you can download the podcast here or subscribe to it on... |
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21 Sep 09
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Part 3: Robert Compton talks to Fools Mountain about business climate in China In this installment, Compton talks to Fools Mountain about the business climate in China. As a venture capitalist and a business executive, Compton brings a very unique perspective on “where China is at” in her development. In producing the... |
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20 Sep 09
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Translation:Can you provide an example to refute this senior fellow? admin’s note. The following is a blog post from 多维博客(h/t to Snow). Besides re-posting an article originally published on the Study Times (a weekly publication of the CCP’s Central Party School) in 2008, it drew a vigorous debate among... |
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14 Sep 09
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Part 2: Robert Compton Discusses Educational Reform & His Film “Two Million Minutes” In the second part of our interview with Robert Compton, We delve more deeply into his film “Two Million Minutes” which looks at the pre-university educational systems of India and China and compares them to the equivalent curriculum in the... |
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12 Sep 09
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Chen Shui Bian Gets Life In the continuing saga that is Chen Shui Bian’s colorful life, a trial court in Taipei sentenced Chen to life in prison yesterday as the first phase of his dramatic corruption and embezzlement trial came to an end. Chen’s wife, Wu Shu-chen,... |
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09 Sep 09
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Bob Compton, one of America’s most succesful businessmen, talks to Fool’s Mountain More Americans are becoming aware of Bob Compton (standing next to U.S. President Obama in the picture to the left) for his efforts in changing America’s education system.Compton is one of the most successful businessmen in America.
He has created... |
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31 Aug 09
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Association for Preserving Historical Accuracy of Foreign Invasions in China (APHAFIC) Welcome to APHAFIC, the Association for Preserving Historical Accuracy of Foreign Invasions in China. This organization was started in San Diego by Nancy Lo, the current president, as a rebuttal to some of the historical inaccuracies coming out of Japan... |
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29 Aug 09
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Donald Gallinger: “Memoirs of China” Donald Gallinger was an English high school teacher in New Jersey who spent September 2004 through July 2005 in China with his wife. He kept a meticulous journal which is the basis for his “Memoirs of China.” Imagine an intelligent an... |
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28 Aug 09
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Opinion:On Dalai Lama’s Upcoming Visit to Taiwan Dalai Lama is set to visit Taiwan next week. The Dalai Lama has been invited a group of local DPP officials representing several southern counties – where DPP support is especially strong.
The Dalai Lama has visited Taiwan twice, once in 1997... |
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27 Aug 09
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In Glorious China We Trust? We’ve had many discussions here on Chinese Nationalism. Last year, Chinese nationalism was stoked in the aftermath of the West’s response to the riots in Tibet and in the lead up to the Olympics. Many in the West chided China on a host of... |
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25 Aug 09
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Rural “share genius” with only 3 years of schooling becomes a millionare through stockmarket In 2007, China had 20+ million new brokerage accounts opened in that one year. Total stock accounts topped 100 million that same year. Also, around 2007, China had roughly 80 million middle class citizens. While this extrapolation is not scientifica... |
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21 Aug 09
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“Former vice-chairman of county-level political congress executed for rape of 24 female students” Courtesy of China News Wrap’s translation of a Chinese language article from Pepole’s Daily, titled, “Former vice-chairman of county-level political congress executed for rape of 24 female students.”
The People’s Daily we... |
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20 Aug 09
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Typhoon Morakot – A More Objective Report I have been critical of a previous post by Steve, where he seems to join those gleefully jockeying for political gain on the back of people’s misery in the wake of the recent Morakot tragedy in Taiwan. I don’t have time to translate all th... |
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20 Aug 09
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Hu Jintao meets with delegation of Taiwanese minorities, pledges further disaster support President Hu recently met with a delegation of ethnic minorities from Taiwan, and pledged further support from the mainland for whatever help Taiwan may need. Ethnic minorities in southern Taiwan, living often in remote villages, were the hardest hi... |
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17 Aug 09
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Can Ma Ying-jeou Weather the Storm? From August 6-9, southern Taiwan was hit with the worst typhoon in 50 years. Per the Associated Press story:
“Morakot dumped more than 80 inches (two meters) of rain on the island last weekend and stranded thousands in villages in the mountainous... |
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17 Aug 09
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Louis Yu’s Indie Podcasts It’s not often a guy working on his PhD in theoretical computer science is also one of the hottest Chinese DJs in North America, but there’s always an exception and Louis Yu (余雷) fits that role. Originally from Guilin, China, he... |
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17 Aug 09
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the China Visual blog: “Made in China” |
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14 Aug 09
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Samah El-Shahat, Al Jazeera’s resident economist: “China puts people before banks” It was not that long ago the “Western” media constantly talked about how insolvant many of China’s banks were, and that they were choked full of bad loans. Obviously, the irony of it was they were talking about their own banks!
There... |
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13 Aug 09
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Cross Cultural Dating Now that many non-Chinese have moved to China and many native Chinese live throughout the world, cross cultural dating has become far more common. For someone leaving mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong or Singapore and moving to a western country, what are... |
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12 Aug 09
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Tibetan Chinese singer, Kelsang Metok (格桑梅朵): “Falling in love with Jiuzhaigou” Few years ago I visited Chengdu and drove all the way to Jiuzhaigou (九寨沟). I got a chance to see the pristine side of Sichuan province and a number of local performances. I stumbled upon this music video by Tibetan Chinese singer, Kelsang Metok... |
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11 Aug 09
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The majority of Chinese people believe that prostitutes are more trustworthy than Communist Party and government officials according to a Xiaokang survey Well … we’ve had several discussions (in the comments section recently) on political reform and the CCP. Here is an interesting article I ran across today at Asia Times on people’s persception of government officials in China:
HO... |
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