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Fake story reflects real divide between rural, urban Chinese

March 21, 2016 By Northwest Asian Weekly

A woman from a big Chinese city visits her boyfriend’s rural hometown and is so appalled by the squalor she sees that she dumps him. The story was fake, but it swept through Chinese media because it highlighted a deep societal gap that the ruling Communist Party has vowed to close.

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2011, Associated Press, Beijing-based Renmin University, China, Chinese New Year, Communist Party, National People, Premier Li Keqiang, Rural Chinese, Tang Yinghong, Tsinghua University, Wu Qiang, Xinhua News Agency, Zheng Fengtian, Zhu Liangyu

New China law abolishes re-education labor camps

January 4, 2014 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Associated Press BEIJING (AP) – State media say China’s national legislature has voted to abolish a much-criticized penal system that allowed police to lock up people for up to four years without due process.

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2014, Chinese Communist Party, National People, New China, Vol 33 No 2 | January 4 - January 10, Xinhua News

Beijing rejects democracy for next HK leader

September 21, 2013 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Kelvin Chan The Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Beijing’s top official in Hong Kong has rejected letting the public nominate candidates to run for leader, in the strongest sign yet from China that it won’t allow the former British colony to freely choose its next leader. Zhang Xiaoming said in an open letter […]

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2013, Basic Law Hong Kong, Beijing, China, Chinese, HK, Hong Kong Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying, Hong Kongers, National People, Vol 32 No 39 | September 21 - September 27, Zhang Xiaoming, letter

China drops death penalty for some economic crimes

March 3, 2011 By Northwest Asian Weekly

BEIJING (AP) — China dropped the death penalty for more than a dozen nonviolent crimes Friday and banned capital punishment for offenders over the age of 75

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2011, Beijing, China, Chinese, Criminal Law, Dui Hua Foundation, Joshua Rosenzweig, Lang Sheng, National People, Standing Committee, Vol 30 No 10 | March 5 - March 11, Xinhua News Agency

SYLP: Women in China: the past and the present

August 19, 2010 By Northwest Asian Weekly

There are two very popular Chinese sayings: “The great virtue of a woman is to have no talent” and “It is more beneficial to raise geese than daughters.” These expose the low regard of Chinese women in traditional Chinese society

Filed Under: News Tagged With: China, Modern Chinese, National People, Northwest Asian Weekly Foundation Summer Youth Leadership Program, Opposing Confucius, United States

China PM defends assertive trade, foreign policy

March 16, 2010 By Northwest Asian Weekly

China vowed Sunday to remain alert to any renewed signs of economic crisis and forcefully defended its currency, trade and more assertive foreign policies as helping global rebalancing, not undermining it …

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: Beijing, China, Chinese, Communist Party, Dalai Lama, European Union, Great Hall, Greece, National People, Premier Wen Jiabao, President Barack Obama, Taiwan, United States, White House, attention

16 historical events that have shaped U.S.–China relations

October 1, 2009 By Northwest Asian Weekly

1784: First representatives of the United States land in China

After anchoring in Guangzhou (Canton), the Empress of China became the first ever American vessel to sail from the United States to China.

Filed Under: Cultures Tagged With: 2009, Anson Burlingame, China Foundation, Chinese Communist, Chinese Exclusion Act, Chinese President Hu Jintao, Gold Rush, House Nancy Pelosi, Liu Lin Hai, Melinda Gates, Nathan Dunn, National People, Open Door Notes, Second Opium War, State John Hay, United States, Vol 28 No 41 | October 3-October 9, Yung Wing

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