WSJ Blogs

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(1) Debra Bruno, Museum Aims to Capture Sights and Sounds of Old Beijing. China Real Time, Nov 15, 2013
http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealti ... nds-of-old-beijing/
(Shijia Hutong Museum 史家胡同博物馆: the first museum dedicated to hutong life and siheyuan 四合院 is set inside the recently renovated Shijia Hutong No 24  北京市东城区史家胡同24号院)

Note: "Colin CHINNERY 秦 思源, a Beijing-based artist and curator whose grandparents once owned the house. The history of the family that owned the home is woven with literary love affairs. LING Shuhua 凌叔华, the daughter of a provincial governor, was a painter and writer whose 1937 love affair with poet Julian Bell—the nephew of writer Virginia Woolf whom she met while the two were studying at Wuhan University—led to a long correspondence with Woolf. The home had been in Ling’s family for years and was given to her upon her marriage to a Peking University professor. Ling and her family fled China for the U.K. in 1947 amid the country’s revolution, at which time the home became a factory and, later, a kindergarten. Mr Chinnery, the son of Ling’s daughter 陈小滢 [father 陈西滢] and a British sinologist 秦乃瑞 [John CHINNERY, deceased], recalled bringing his grandmother back to the location in 1990. At the time, it was the home of Shijia Hutong Kindergarten."

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(2) Toko SEKIGUCHI 関口 陶子, Koizumi Tells Abe: Keep Up the Good Work on China!. Japan Real Time, Nov 14, 2013
blogs.wsj.com/japanrealtime/2013/11/14/koizumi-tells-abe-keep-up-the-good-work-on-china/
(Former PM Junichiro KOIZUMI "giv[es] the current prime minister [Shinzo ABE, Koizumi's former star pupil] a thumbs-up on his approach to diplomacy with China. Diplomacy in this case meaning angering the world’s second largest economy by allowing several key cabinet members to visit a controversial war-linked shrine.

(3) Tom Gara, Volvo Discovers the Benefits of Being Chinese. Corporate Intelligence, Nov 13, 2013

, which is based on

Colum Murphy and Christina Zander, China Adds Volvo Car to Procurement List. Wall Street Journal, Nov 13, 2013.

There is no need to read either text.

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(4) Bob Davis, Larry Summers: In China and India, Beware of ‘Asiaphoria.’ China Real Time, Nov 12, 2013
blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2013/11/12/larry-summers-in-china-and-india-beware-of-asiaphoria/
("At a recent San Francisco Federal Reserve conference, they [Lawrence Summers and Lant Pritchett, both Harvard economists] warned that rapid growth in India and China could come to a fast, unexpected halt. * * * The two economists don’t claim to have found specific roadblocks that will halt either country’s progress")

My comment: I can not find the text.


(5) Bob Davis, Experimenting With Democracy, One Ping-Pong Table at a Time. China Real Time, Nov 12, 2013
http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealti ... ng-table-at-a-time/
("Tongling 安徽省 铜陵市, China’s 'copper city,' has been at the forefront of reform since the 1990s * * * Competitive elections in China are usually confined to the village level – the lowest of five administrative levels. Tongling is trying its hand at such elections at the city district level, somewhat higher on the power ladder. In March, the city’s residents elected 18 community representatives in the four districts that comprise Tongling. The reps don’t sit on a city council–there isn’t one in Tongling. Instead, they act as liaisons between various communities and the city government. Sixteen of those 18 were nominated by the Communist Party, assuring their election. In two cases in the Tongguanshan district 铜官山区, though, Tongling took a stab at democracy. Local residents nominated people to run for director, the formal name of the neighborhood rep. They also nominated people to run for two lower-level vice-director positions and six board-member seats. The board director, vice directors and board members collectively operate as a kind of community board")