“A popular television host known as China’s Larry King said on Wednesday that Shanghai authorities pulled the plug on his talk show this year to prevent him from exposing a sensitive case of local official corruption. In his first interview with Western media since being forced off of the air in February, Taiwan-born finance professor Lang Hsien-ping said he kept silent after receiving threats of expulsion, imprisonment and even assassination. His show — Larry Lang Live — was a near overnight success after it started in 2004 in a city whose residents pack into brokerages to play the stock market, becoming one of the city’s three most popular programs …” Quelle: NYT/ Reuters. 

Quelle: The Guardian.

Foto: Shen Yun

“The US$1 million Shaw Prize was established by film and television mogul and philanthropist Sir Run Run Shaw in November 2002 to honor scientists who have achieved breakthroughs in academic and scientific research or application and whose work has benefited mankind …” Quelle: The Standard.

Quelle: Xinhua.

“… The software, tested for two years in a court in Zibo, a city in the eastern coastal province of Shandong, covered about 100 different crimes, including robbery, rape, murder and state security offences, the South China Morning Post said, citing the software’s developer, Qin Ye … Judges enter details of a case and the system produces a sentence … Chinese court rulings are often decided by ‘trial committees’ made up of judges and Communist Party officials …” Quelle: NYT/ Reuters.

Reich ohne Wasser 340 Millionen Chinesen haben kein sauberes Trinkwasser. Der Weltwasserkongress in Peking sucht nach Lösungen. Von Kirstin Wenk und Johnny Erling (Die Welt).

Löwen im Schatten der Wölfe In Venedig gewinnt der chinesische Überraschungsbeitrag “Sanxia haoren” (”Still Life”) von Jia Zhang-ke. Dieser Film war eigentlich gar nicht geplant. Von Peter Zander (Die Welt). Xinhua-Artikel dazu.

Now let’s talk about sex “… Chinese students are having both sex and abortions at younger ages … ” Von Maureen Fan (The Standard/ Washington Post).

China’s Echo Chamber “… keeping such a tight lid on a society undergoing rapid changes could eventually explode in their faces … These new rules appear, at a minimum, to violate their W.T.O. pledges to liberalize access to financial information … “  Vgl. dazu «China ist ein offenes Land»  China will den Vorwurf, das Land würde ausländische Medien in ihrer Arbeit behindern, nicht auf sich sitzen lassen. Alles, was unternommen werde, diene der «ordentlichen Verbreitung» von Nachrichten (Netzeitung).

Civil liberties crackdown casts long shadow over Chinese leader’s visit to Britain Jonathan Watts (The Guardian).

West-Sammler stehen auf China-Kunst Zeitgenössische Werke aus Fernost boomen: Auch in der Kunst fürchtet der Westen, seine Deutungshoheit zu verlieren. Von Uta Baier (Die Welt).

Quelle: Xinhua.

Humanity, not money, to unite China, Taiwan “Recently, I read the Japanese version of a book recounting the ban on Freezing Point, a weekly magazine affiliated with the China Youth Daily … The book was written by … Li Datong, the editor-in-chief of the magazine … Lung Ying-tai, a famous writer in Taiwan, published an essay criticizing the ban in the form of an open letter to Chinese President Hu Jintao soon after the incident. Her essay caused a sensation in China … Lung wrote that pandas are not important, and the key issue is whether Beijing can share democratic values found in Taiwan …” Von Takuji Kawata (Daily Yomiuri Online). 

Polo, the sporting symbol of privilege, arrives as Beijing tycoon taps into rising wealth and leisure time Jonathan Watts. Quelle: The Guardian. 

“… China’s glacial progress in improving human rights and its bellicose language over Taiwan have slowed the momentum on the issue …” Quelle: The Standard/ AP.

Peking verbietet freie Verbreitung ausländischer Medien Peking hat mit scharfen Verboten seinen Anspruch auf hundertprozentige Kontrolle aller aus dem Ausland stammenden Medien, Fotos und Nachrichten durchgesetzt, die in China vertrieben werden. Von Johnny Erling (Die Welt).

Quelle: china.org.cn Vgl. DAAD-Info “Etablierung eines deutschen weiterbildenden Master-Studiengangs im Bereich Bildende Kunst mit chinesischem Studienanteil ab September 2005.”

Bericht von Joseph Kahn (NYT).

Quelle: NYT/ AP.

Nachtrag: Perlentaucher-Zusammenfassung einer Besprechung des von Jochen Schmidt übersetzten Shenzhen-Comics von Guy Delisle in der NZZ.  

“[Rebiya] Kadeer, 58, an ethnic Uighur jailed for more than five years in China for providing state secrets to foreigners before her exile, won a Rafto Prize for human rights in Norway in 2004 and has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize this year …” Quelle: NYT/ Reuters. Ferner Standard/ Reuters.

Besprochen von David Barboza (NYT): A Portrait of China Running Amok Ferner: Interview mit David Barboza zu diesem Buch.

China hat sich im neuen “Doing Business” Ranking der Weltbank für 2006 um 15 Plätze verbessert: Quelle

In what do we trust? “… trustability is built on a society, not on its laws alone …” Von James Rose (The Standard). 

The thoughts of chairman Ma Issues of censorship and privacy do not detain the Yahoo! rescuer and TV star “… at Hangzhou … a giant festival of capitalism … AliFest claims to be the biggest gathering of entrepreneurs that China has ever seen. This lakeside resort was host to about 10,000 businessmen and women - buttonmakers and bankers, parts suppliers and booksellers, people in chemicals and steel. They had all come to learn how to make money and to listen to the man who runs the fastest growing market in China: Jack Ma, 41, the founder and president of the e-commerce powerhouse Alibaba …”, “‘… If the government is unhappy, you can’t do anything. I don’t want to argue whether it is right or wrong. I have to do business,’ he says. As with entrepreneurship, Ma’s reluctance to debate politics or human rights is entirely in keeping with the spirit of the age. ‘Even without the government telling me what to do, I tell my staff not to get involved. If there is anything sensitive, I tell them to clean it up,’ …”

Der neue Mao-Kult Peking feiert den früheren KP-Führer an dessen 30. Todestag. Die Verbrechen des Diktators werden hingegen ausgeblendet. Von Johnny Erling (Die Welt).

Kulturelle Entdeckungsreise in ein fremdes Land Die China Time 2006 bietet viele Veranstaltungen für die Hamburger Von Britta Hesener (Die Welt).

Peking-Bilder von Xiaming

“… Tang Ruiren, owner of the Maojia Restaurant in her 70s, still recites Mao’s works and quotations every day when she welcomes visitors …” Quelle:  Xinhua. Vgl. Artikel von BBC.

Ninth China-EU summit held in Helsinki “Wen Jiabao called on the European side to make correct political resolution independently for lifting arms ban against China and granting China full market economy status …” Quelle: Xinhua. 

Quelle: BBC.

Von Ross Terrill. Quelle: NYT. “… Ross Terrill, a research associate at Harvard’s Fairbank Center, is the author of ‘The New Chinese Empire’.”

Camera obscured For defying the Chinese authorities and taking his film to the Cannes festival, the director Lou Ye has been banned from film-making. So why did he do it? “… Directors must be free. So I say to everyone when we are working, ‘Let’s forget censorship.’ That’s why there are always so many troubles after the film is complete. But while I am shooting, I am very happy …” Von Jonathan Watts (The Guardian).

Gespräch - ”Ich kann keine Ideale erkennen, die Mao gehabt haben soll” Der chinesische Literaturnobelpreisträger Gao Xingjian über seine Rolle während der Kulturrevolution, ihr Erbe sowie über seinen Kollegen Günter Grass. “… Auf dem Internationalen Literaturfestival in Berlin wird an diesem Wochenende Ihr neuer Film ‘Die Silhouette ohne Schatten’ uraufgeführt. Worum geht es? ..” Von Kirstin Wenk (Die Welt).