Chinese archaeologists have discovered a section of the Great Wall straddling the Mongolian border that is the northernmost remnant of the landmark yet found. picked by AutumnLotus 3 years ago

Censorship in China is nothing new, but the level of action taken to force Chinese citizens to comply has garnered global recognition. China marked the date July 1st, 2009 as the day manufacturers will be forced to install filtering software on all new PCs. While many have resorted to digitally lashing out against Green Dam, Chinese artist and designer of the famous Bird's Nest at the Beijing Olym... read full post picked by beaplourde 5 months ago

Tons of information on history of the Great Wall of China, including labor forces, construction material, and much more. picked by donteatpoop 3 years ago

Said to rival the great wall itself - the 13 mile long dragon will be covered in 5.6 million scales of jade or gold-coated bronze. picked by BrownTrout 3 years ago

Through... yes I said through picked by teaya21 3 years ago

A Senate lawmaker accused the Chinese government on Thursday of ordering U.S.-owned hotels in China to install Internet filters that can spy on international visitors coming to see the summer Olympic games. picked by deEPCHill 2 years ago

New wall is a relative miniature at 1 meter (3.3 feet) high -- to guard against hordes of pillaging mice. ``The wall is a symbolic gesture to quiet public concern,'' Wen said. ``It's not going to work in the long run.'' picked by misswinkle 2 years ago

A fascist regime plans to host the Olympic Games. Critics call for a boycott, but the Games come off as planned. And on the field of world opinion, the host scores an enormous victory. In 1936 , serious movements urging an outright boycott of the Berlin Games were mounted in the United States, Britain, France, Sweden, Czechoslovakia and the Netherlands. Adolf Hitler had come to power two years ... read full post picked by buddha 2 years ago

The number of Internet users in China is now greater than the entire population of the United States, after rising to 338 million by the end of June, state media reported Sunday. picked by nickcobb 4 months ago

China has tied the United States as the online population leader with its government reporting that the number of Internet users there has soared to 221 million. picked by 2longdogs 2 years ago

British and Iranian archaeologists have discovered the ruins of a 200 kilometre-long wall, the second longest wall in Asia after the Great Wall of China, in northern Iran. picked by misswinkle 2 years ago

Sand storms in northwest China are reducing sections of Great Wall to mounds of dirt and may cause them to disappear in about 20 years, state media said on Wednesday. picked by maxriter 2 years ago

BEIJING — Mobile phone users in central China could face jail for sending unwanted erotic text messages while in the north, one local Communist Party branch has held 480 meetings on the problem in the past month. Henan province has announced that firing off just one such message could see the sender slapped in detention for up to five days, the China Daily reported on Tuesday. Three messag... read full post picked by soreen 4 months ago

Big Brother will soon be making regular appearances on the screens of Internet users in China, but the velvet fist will take the unexpected form of a cute pair of manga cartoon cops.

Those crazy Chinese, what will they think of next! picked by nesbyniccolo 2 years ago

Announced to PC manufacturers but not the citizens of China themselves, the Chinese government plans to force their approved content filter onto every new computer sold from July 1st onwards. picked by pocksucket 6 months ago

China plans to tighten controls on Internet blogs and webcasts in a response to new technologies that have allowed citizens to avoid government censorship efforts. There are currently over 50 people "rotting" in prison for such crimes against the state. picked by BrownTrout 3 years ago

Higher than both the London Eye and the Singapore Flyer, which opens in March, the Beijing Great Wheel will tower 208 metres (682 ft) when finished in 2009. The giant ferris wheel will have 48 air conditioned observation capsules, each of which can carry up to 40 passengers, and on a good day even the Great Wall is expected to be visible in the mountains to Beijing's north. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

I've been thinking this might happen since the IOC announcement of China getting the Olympics. Now that trade, environment and currency devaluation are bubbling to the surface in the US I think we are one step closer.I see it as our last leverage against the monster who holds our debt, steals our secrets, pollutes, exploits, and destroys its own people and environment to feed our conspicuous con... read full post picked by blurmore 3 years ago

Judged by the astonishing increase in journal papers written by scientists in China, there can be little doubt that China is finding its place as one of the world's scientific power houses. picked by maxriter 1 year ago