Interesting article (this week's Sunday Times cover story) on China's nascent car culture.

Quoted: China is in the middle of a car-buying and road-building boom. But what happens when hundreds of millions of people all discover the joys — and agonies — of car culture at the same time?

Baidu's "forum" linked to a search result. Discovered this feature in the article I previously dotted about China and Google. Apparently these types of interactive features are enormously popular in China, and one reason that Baidu has captured so much market share.

Great article about Google and China from the Sunday NY Times Magazine.

Quoted: Just what are Chinese Internet users searching for?

Ballmer and Gates feign amusement after Mr. Jintao asks: "So, when do we meet Kai Fu Lee?"

Quoted: Challenge: Write a caption for this photograph.

Quoted: On June 5, 1989, one day after Chinese troops expelled thousands of demonstrators from Tiananmen Square in Beijing, a solitary, unarmed protester stood his ground before a column of tanks advancing down the Avenue of Eternal Peace. Captured by Western photographers watching nearby, this extraordinary confrontation became an icon of the fight for freedom around the world. On April 11, veteran filmmaker Antony Thomas investigates the mystery of the tank man -- his identity, his fate, and his significance for the Chinese leadership. The search for the tank man reveals China's startling social compact -- its embrace of capitalism while dissent is squashed -- designed to stifle the nationwide unrest of 1989. This policy has allowed educated elites and entrepreneurs to profit handsomely, while the majority of Chinese still face brutal working conditions and low wages, and all Chinese must endure strict political and social controls. Some of these controls regulate speech on the Internet -- and have generated criticism over the involvement of major U.S. corporations such as Yahoo!, Cisco, Microsoft, and Google.

China has a huge gender gap.

Quoted: China credits its economic success in part to its stringent one-child policy but, as <b>Lesley Stahl</b> reports, one of the side effects is that the country faces a major gender imbalance. In short, there are too many boys and not enough girls.

Interesting article on piracy in China. The print article mentioned that 90+% of software in China is pirated.

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