Posts tagged ‘state owned enterprizes’

Aug 28

Disgruntled retired woman firebombs board meeting

The front page of the Jinan Times (济南晚报) in Shandong today carries the gruesome tale of an attack by a retired but disgruntled former employee on a board meeting at a water supply company in Shaoyang (邵阳市) in Hunan province. Read more

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  • Hu Shi, missionaries, and women's rights (2010.07): Julian Smisek translates an article by Hu Shi, who notes that missionaries, often considered the vanguard of the West's cultural invasion, did actually bring some positive change to China.
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  • Tian Zhuangzhuang: The film world as mafia and commerical models of film (2009.11): Time Weekly interviews Tian Zhuangzhuang about his new film The Warrior and the Wolf, in which he talked about commercialism of films in China, the film industry as a kind of mafia and the lacking of a master film in China.

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