Fool's Mountain: Blogging for China

• OECD: Inequality in China Leveling Off

The increase in inequality in China has leveled off in recent years and could be less severe than previously thought, suggesting that Beijing is starting to make progress in tackling one of its biggest social problems.

• Atlantic:Don't Panic About China

Author explains why the West should embrace—rather than fear—the next superpower.

• Time:Haiti and China: A Tale of Two Earthquakes

Looking for parallels to Haiti's catastrophe, many point to China.  The author went back to Sichuan six months after the catastrophe and was amazed at the speed of physical and economic recovery.

• NYT:In War Against the Internet, China Is Just a Skirmish

On why the norm of the Internet may not be laissez-faire, but fragmentation of community along linguistic and national lines.

• ATimes:The peace imperative

On how China has prospered through peace, established a framework for future peace - and on how the present form of government may present the best guarantee of preserving peace.

• TreeHugger:Why Blaming China Misses the Point

Blaming China now for destroying the world won't help future negotiations nor get the world on track to developing new low-carbon economies  nor dissuade China from its mission to lead the world in clean development.

• NYT:Diplomacy That Will Live in Infamy

Interesting op-ed on British, American, Russian, and Japanese imperialism in East Asia in the early-mid 20th century.

• Frgn Affrs:What to Read on the Financial Crisis

There has been a lot of accusations by some that the world economic crisis has been caused by China.  Here are some good readings for those initiated enough to learn more about reality.

• ATimes:How Eurocentric is your day?

From the toilet to music to science, our world may be more interconnected than you think!

• Frgn Polcy:Take Me Back to Constantinople

Advice to empire builders: learn from Byzantine not Rome.
(more...)

• 一甲子的故事

北京的知識圈最近流行一個順口溜

• 马玲:中国共产党八十八岁生日反思

中共自身寻求改革的必要性与紧迫性

• 郑永年:中国社会信任的解体及其结果

最大危险是权力和资本走在一起

• 周晓东:也谈“中国社会信任的解体及其结果”

从制度上改善应该不是一条唯一的道路。

• 新语丝专栏:汶川地震

• 左右派都挨打 識時務者為英雄

大陸意識形態的主潮流是「打左燈、向右轉」

• 王力雄:西藏问题的文化反思

回顾西藏问题的起伏，不少人难免有一种费解。

• 吴毅:文物追索与民族情感

理性的文化和心态有赖于理性行为的累积。

• 张莉——哭泣的白度母

不仅拥有美丽和善良，而且拥有无畏和果敢。

• 新语丝:中医是什么？

这一“中”一“西”两个字，不知道贻误多少仁人志士！
(more...)