Chinas heimliche Seele 5000 Kilometer quer durch den Süden des Landes: Zu Megastädten, Naturwundern und Dörfern im Reich der Mitte. “… Enge, aber nicht Chaos … wo Kolonnen von Arbeitern den heißen Teer für eine neue Straße noch mit Schaufeln platt schlägt, wo Manpower den Maßstab bildet und an Restaurants Schilder mit der Aufschrift ‘No Japanese’ werben, ist Fortschritt à la Shanghai reine Chimäre … Chinesen sind Touristen gegenüber kooperativ und beweglich wie Wasser …” Von Knut Teske (Die Welt).

“A local hospital in east China began this week to offer check-ups at discounted prices to tens of thousands of masseuses, many of whom are involved in the sex trade … Tens of thousands of masseuses work in more than 3,000 foot massage centers, 2,600 sauna bars and numerous bath houses in Nanjing … A sociology professor with Nanjing University … said the health exam for the masseuses is a business opportunity for the hospital …” Quelle: Xinhua.

“Warner Bros. has come up with a novel strategy to fight back …” Quelle: Business Week.

… “Does this represent a change? Or does it mean that the Chinese are letting us feel good about the Paulson trip and then planning to go back to what they were doing.” … Von Keith Bradsher und Steven R. Weisman. Quelle: NYT.

“… The first of 20 planned documentaries in the ‘Atlas’ series on the Discovery Channel ’China’ …”  Besprechung von Susan Stewart. Quelle: NYT.

Scandal claims another cadre Von Patrick Zhang (The Standard)

BBC enthüllt Handel mit Organen hingerichteter Häftlinge Eine Leber gibt es für 75.000 Euro, die Wartezeit beträgt nur drei Wochen: Die atemberaubende Recherche eines britischen Journalisten hat die Pekinger Zensurbehörden in Alarmstimmung versetzt. Von Johnny Erling (Die Welt).

Beijing’s penis emporium Von Andrew Harding (BBC).

Übersetzung eines Artikels von Zheng Yan aus Southern Weekend (Nanfang Zhoumo). Quelle: EastSouthWestNorth.

Aus dem Chinesischen von Hans Peter Hoffmann. Der Text ist in der Endrunde fuer den “Lettre Ulysses Award for the Art of Reportage” 2006. Quelle: Perlentaucher. 

“… wealthy east, noble west, poor south, cheap north …” Quelle: Xinhua.

Quelle: Die Welt

China Denounces Art Teacher’s Naked Lecture (NYT/ Reuters)..

“China’s southernmost province of Hainan launched eight community-based methadone clinics for drug addicts in seven cities …” Quelle: Xinhua 

… About 800,000 visitors had read the news about Chen [Liangyu] between noon Monday and noon Wednesday on Xinhuanet, operated by Xinhua News Agency …  “It’s big news,” says a 72-year-old retired worker Zhou Junying in Beijing. “We just hate the corrupt officials. Many people I know are living on a minimum pension of a few hundred yuan.” … Quelle: Xinhua.

2nd International Conference on Scientific Feng Shui & Built Environment 2006 [in Hong Kong, 5.-6. Oktober] “More than 15 distinguished speakers from Australia, Germany, Italy, Serbia …” Quelle: aiib.net.

China Recognizes Confucius Women Kin for First Time Quelle: NYT/ Reuters.

Equity market may triple “The size of China’s equity market is likely to triple over the next four years as more foreign money pours in and Chinese firms raise funds there more actively … The total capitalization of the Shanghai and Shenzhen stock exchanges will jump to 15 trillion yuan (HK$14.76 trillion) by 2010, from 5.2 trillion now, Zhang Yujun, president of the Shenzhen Stock Exchange, wrote in an article published Wednesday …” Quelle: The Standard.

“… in der Nähe von Shanghai … Rund zehn Mio. Euro hat der Weltmarktführer in die 5000 Quadratmeter große Produktionsstätte investiert. Weitere zehn Mio. sollen in die bereits beschlossene Verdoppelung der Kapazität fließen …” Quelle: Die Welt.

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Nachtrag: Bundesbank-Chef ermutigt Peking zur Yuan-Aufwertung Wirtschaftspolitiker und Notenbankchefs aus aller Welt geben sich derzeit bei den höchsten Finanzfunktionären Pekings die Klinke in die Hand. Bundesbankpräsident Axel Weber reihte sich bei Chinas Zentralbankchef und der Devisenchefin des Landes ein. Von Johnny Erling (Die Welt).

Chinese Officials Vow to Press Political Shake-Up, Saying Corruption Is Focus Von Joseph Kahn (NYT).

“Chinese Vice Premier Wu Yi has called on the six provinces of central China [Shanxi, Anhui, Henan, Jiangxi, Hunan, Hubei] to take the initiative in endeavoring to become a new rising social and economic force in the country …” Quelle: Xinhua.

“A fantasy novel about tribes of warring birds, written by a gifted 11-year-old girl who lives in the southern-most province of China, is to be published worldwide in English …” Von Vanessa Thorpe. Quelle: The Guardian.

KP-Chef von Shanghai stürzt über Korruptionsskandal Politbüro-Mitglied Chen Liangyu ist in systematische Veruntreuung von Sozialgeldern verstrickt. Für Chinas Präsident Hu Jintao steckt hinter der Absetzung Chens jedoch mehr als der Kampf gegen Korruption. Von Johnny Erling (Die Welt), dazu Kommentar: Hu Jintao setzt sich durch.

“The Congressional-Executive Commission on China released its 2006 Annual Report on human rights conditions and the development of the rule of law in China to the President and the Congress on Wednesday, September 20 …” Download hier. Xinhua-Kommentar hier.

“Qualified foreign institutional investors (QFIIs) earned more than 20 billion yuan (2.5 billion U.S. dollars) in China in the past three years, said Sun Jie, an official with the China Securities Regulatory Commission …” Quelle: Xinhua.

“… The China Confucius Foundation (CCF) on Saturday unveiled a standard portrait of ancient philosopher and educator Confucius in order to give him a single, recognizable identity around the world … A standard portrait is needed so that different countries could have the same image of him … The sculpture depicts Confucius as an old man with a long beard, broad mouth and big ears …” Quelle: Xinhua.

Von Joseph Kahn. Quelle: NYT.

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“Nachbar China” - Altkanzler Schmidt warnt vor Panikmache Im Thalia Theater mahnt der “Zeit”-Herausgeber weniger Besserwisserei an. Er stellt sein neues Buch vor. Quelle: Die Welt/ dpa.

China stellt Transrapid auf den Prüfstand Im einzigen Land, wo der Transrapid kommerziell genutzt wird, trauert man mit den Angehörigen der Opfer. Gleichzeitig wird aber überlegt, ob der Weiterbau der Shanghaier Flughafenanbindung nach Hangzhou auch wegen der hohen Kosten sinnvoll ist. Von Johnny Erling (Die Welt).

Just a drop in the ocean “With the release recently of the first China green GDP report, many would argue that the bigwigs in Beijing are being hugely progressive. They are. Clearly some influential figures are taking the many environmental problems in China very seriously. But the really disappointing thing about the green GDP is that it is so limited and so much of China’s most damaging environmental trends are not even slated for inclusion in the project …” Von James Rose (The Standard). 

Quelle: Xinhua.

China fürchtet westliche Heuschrecken Die Volksrepublik will ihre Abhängigkeit von ausländischen Investoren verringern. Sie erschwert die Übernahme heimischer Firmen. Quelle: Die Welt.

… Seated round a table in conference room HC9 at the US Congress on Capitol Hill for two days this week were four of the “five poisons” that Beijing views as public enemies numbers one to five. … The delegates in Washington formed an Asian Democracy Alliance, and drafted a Declaration of Independence of the Nations of High Asia … Republican Congressman for Virginia Frank Wolf told the conference it was good that such groups were now working together “to defeat the common enemy, Communist China, which I am confident will fall in the next few years”. Von Rowan Callick. Quelle: The Australian.

“Lesbian novel or not? Author Fan Wu will only say her new book breaks with stereotypes to stay true to `real Chinese people’. She speaks to Dinah Gardner … Wu, 33, is the latest in a line of celebrated Chinese authors such as Ha Jin (Waiting) and Lu Yiyun (A Thousand Years of Good Prayers) who have penned their work in English. Wu grew up on the mainland but moved to the United States nine years ago, where she now works for Yahoo! in California. The novel focuses on Chen in her first year at university in Guangzhou in the early 1990s …” Quelle: The Standard. Weitere Besprechung in The Australian.

“Police in Liaocheng, in eastern Shandong province, uncovered the 2 billion yuan ($253 million) network after a member provided a list of names that led to the arrest of three ringleaders and the discovery of a database of 326,000 salespeople and 400 ’senior members’ …” Quelle: NYT/ Reuters. 

Quelle: Xinhua.

Sachbuch - Gefährliche Chinesen Gabor Steingart sieht Handelskriege voraus: In puncto Alarmismus hat er damit wohl seine persönliche Bestmarke eingestellt. Wenn er damit eine Debatte um die Vor- und eben auch Nachteile der Globalisierung anstößt, ist viel gewonnen. [Besprechung von “Weltkrieg um Wohlstand”] Von Ulrich Machold (Die Welt).