http://www.meoldchina.net/ WORLD CHINA SHANGHAI ODDS&ENDS en-us Copyright 2006 MeoldChina. All rights reserved. webmaster@meoldchina.com webmaster@meoldchina.com PHP RSS Feed DESPITE what the government has told us about the unity of the Chinese people as they shudder beneath the waves of foreign hypocrisy and prejudice, dissenting voices do occasionally show through.  Unfortu... http://www.meoldchina.net/newsdetaile.php?id=2&t=10&nid=214 2008-04-18 09:35:49 LAST WEEK Me Old China had the great pleasure of meeting the articulate and urbane Yvo de Boer, the head of the secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, who repeated the usual post-apoca... http://www.meoldchina.net/newsdetaile.php?id=1&t=24&nid=219 2008-04-29 01:22:25 GEORGE ORWELL once drew attention to a tendency among certain members of the intelligentsia to id... http://www.meoldchina.net/newsdetaile.php?id=2&t=10&nid=218 2008-04-27 05:44:37 IN 1805, seven of the most powerful pirate groups in China decided to form a federation, whereupon they carved up the coast between them. Eventually, the British Navy turned up, and using Hong Kong as their base to trade tea, silk and opium, they sought to set up a pirate-free zo... http://www.meoldchina.net/newsdetaile.php?id=3&t=13&nid=213 2008-04-18 02:58:36 SO, WE once again hear the whir of bicycle spokes as the Chinese government backpedals furiously away, terrified that the great "coming-out party" that is the 2008 Olympic Games might be spoiled by s... http://www.meoldchina.net/newsdetaile.php?id=2&t=10&nid=217 2008-04-20 09:50:49 THE PEOPLE of the Chinese countryside, like people in all countrysides, are a superstitious lot. Their lives haven't changed very much in centuries, and they are still dependent on a number of vague forces some distance beyond their control, whether it be China... http://www.meoldchina.net/newsdetaile.php?id=2&t=26&nid=216 2008-04-20 08:29:05 One of these kids is doing his own thing...ONE"ONE CHINA": http://www.meoldchina.net/newsdetaile.php?id=4&t=16&nid=215 2008-04-20 08:08:45 Review of  GENERALISSIMO: Chiang Kai-Shek and the China He Lost by Jonathan Fenby IT IS sometimes hard to imagine how brutal, desperate, and cruel life was in China in the post-Imperial era, dominated as it was by a gang of competing warlords and ban... http://www.meoldchina.net/newsdetaile.php?id=2&t=26&nid=212 2008-04-18 02:20:23 RIOTS erupt on the streets of Lhasa and dozens of Han Chinese citizens - including at least nine policemen - are killed in the violence.  In response, the Chinese authorities send in the troops and blame the "Dalai clique&quo... http://www.meoldchina.net/newsdetaile.php?id=2&t=10&nid=211 2008-04-15 10:09:44 COVERING the latest session of the National People's Congress this week, your correspondent has been assailed and buttonholed and generally inconvenienced by countless Chinese journalists anxious to hear us confirm how "open and transparent" the "media environment&... http://www.meoldchina.net/newsdetaile.php?id=2&t=10&nid=209 2008-03-09 23:10:41 STATE MOUTHPIECE Xinhua said that 92 outdated laws have recently been revoked. We have obtained a list of those laws in full, so here are some of the highlights: Foreigner Cit... http://www.meoldchina.net/newsdetaile.php?id=2&t=9&nid=208 2008-01-24 01:30:17 WHEN China's family planning tsar, Zhang Weiqing, said that the government is about to strike hard against local celebrities and bigwigs who violate the One... http://www.meoldchina.net/newsdetaile.php?id=2&t=9&nid=207 2008-01-22 08:22:10 Shao Longtu, creator of the Shanghai 2010 World Expo mascot, has had a tough few weeks since the unveiling of his “Haibao” character in December. The blue animation was mocked, ridiculed and compared to every... http://www.meoldchina.net/newsdetaile.php?id=3&t=12&nid=206 2008-01-20 06:35:16 CHINA'S HYDROPOWER sector seems to have given up on the Tiger Leaping Gorge, but its plans for the Nu River appear to be gathe... http://www.meoldchina.net/newsdetaile.php?id=2&t=9&nid=205 2008-01-15 01:33:04 BELEAGUERED OLD Wang Xiaofeng, the head of the State Council office in charge of the China's Three Gorges Project, has obviously had a very hard time of it of late.  The Xinhua news agency cited Wang in http://www.meoldchina.net/newsdetaile.php?id=2&t=10&nid=204 2007-11-27 07:42:11 LAST MONTH, state mouthpiece Xinhua threw the foreign media a bone by suggesting that the Chinese government had finally acknowledged the var... http://www.meoldchina.net/newsdetaile.php?id=2&t=9&nid=203 2007-10-25 09:52:54 SO, CHINA'S Seventeenth Party Congress is over, and the "fifth generation" of leaders have been incorporated into the highest political organization in the country.  Despite last-minute claims that neither Shanghai's Xi Jinping nor "Unlucky"... http://www.meoldchina.net/newsdetaile.php?id=2&t=9&nid=202 2007-10-23 00:17:16 THE VICE-MINISTER of Education, Zhou Ji, said last week that China would endeavour to improve the "moral education" of the masses.  Such comments are always to be regretted, because almost instantly, the foreign press starts going on about Confu... http://www.meoldchina.net/newsdetaile.php?id=2&t=9&nid=201 2007-10-21 11:03:34 AFTER watching two dozen reporters from Hong Kong and elsewhere barring the way as the People's Bank chairman, Zhou Xiaochuan, tries to leave a press conference held "on the sidelines" - as the newswires usually put it - of the Seventeenth Communist ... http://www.meoldchina.net/newsdetaile.php?id=2&t=9&nid=200 2007-10-21 07:43:27 SPECULATION is rife and the foreign media are contradicting themselves every moment.  Who will win and who will lose in the current Party and government shake-up, and will we ever be able to tell?  Which colossi will bestride the Chinese Communist Par... http://www.meoldchina.net/newsdetaile.php?id=2&t=9&nid=199 2007-10-17 07:03:53