Zhang 涨

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(1) Michael Meyer, China's Big Zhang. New York Times, Jan. 2, 2011.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/02/opinion/02meyer.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=zhang%20price&st=cse

My comment:
(a) This article--preceded by NOV for November--is part of the larger "Around the WORLD IN 12 Months" which spanned two entire pages of the Week in Review section of Sunday newspaper. For example, JAN is titled Haiti Without Walls, about the earthquake.
(b) The article has been translated:

njweili, 遍地涨声的中国. Jan. 3, 2011.
http://article.yeeyan.org/view/192520/163256
(c) (Chinese) character of the year 年度汉字
(d) resentment 怨
(e) angry to death 气死了
(f) Eternal Garden Cemetery in Shenzhen 深圳市龙山永久墓园
(jiweili translated incorrectly as 深圳永恒乐园公墓)
http://www.szlongshan.com/newEbiz1/EbizPortalFG/portal/html/index.html

(2) James T Areddy, Cooking Oil's Surge Shows How Inflation Hits Chinese; Beijinh has moved to snuff out rumors that cooking oil is in short supply with auctions from strategic national reserves. Wall Street Journal, Jan. 3, 2010.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204467204576047041668580356.html

Quote:

"nowhere are the [price] pressures felt more deeply than with cooking oil, more vital in Chinese cooking than even rice.

"In a nation where few kitchens include an oven, cooking oil is so valued that a jug of it is an appropriate gift. Chinese recipes from stir-fried beef to steamed fish call for oil, explains celebrity chef Martin Yan [of US]. 'In Chinese cooking, the majority of dishes use oil,' he says in an interview.

Note: Shanghai's Putuo district 上海市普陀区

(3) Chuin-Wei YAP, Henan Farmers Hope for a Rainy Christmas. China Real Time, Dec. 24, 2010.
http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2010/12/24/henan-farmers-hope-for-a-rainy-christmas/
("Drought in Henan matters to the national economy. The province contributes to about a third of China’s winter wheat, which in turn accounts for 90% of the following summer’s grain harvest")

Note: winter wheat
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_wheat
(a type of wheat that is planted from September to December in the Northern Hemisphere. Winter wheat sprouts before freezing occurs, then becomes dormant until the soil warms in the spring. Winter wheat needs a few weeks of cold before being able to flower * * * It is ready to be harvested by early July.)

(4) Chuin-Wei Yap, Old Problems Resurface With China’s Rising Food Prices. China Real Time, Dec. 23, 2010.
http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2010/12/23/old-problems-resurface-with-chinas-rising-food-prices/

Quote:

"China declares its seventh annual consecutive record harvest this month
* * * [Whether it is true or not, it is unclear. But] Olivier De Schutter, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right to food, wrote in a six-page report published Thursday that since 1997, China has lost 8.2 million hectares of arable land because of urbanization, industrialization or natural disasters. That’s nearly a tenth of the amount of arable land used to produce five major grain and oilseed categories this year, by official estimates.

"Food prices this year have risen sharply, bringing inflation to a 28-month high, to a point where eggs and milk in the city of Hangzhou, near Shanghai, may have risen beyond comparable tags in Boston.

My comment:
(a) Standard Chartered China economist Stephen Green today echos the UN official.

Chuin-Wei Yap, Doubts on China’s Grain Productivity. China Real Time, Jan. 4, 2011.
http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2011/01/04/doubts-on-chinas-grain-productivity/
("China insists that it maintains about 120 million hectares of arable land, but Mr. Green has his doubts. 'It’s likely that the amount of agricultural land continues to decline, despite official statistics,' he said")
(b) The last clause led to a link to

Laurie Burkitt, China More Expensive Than the U.S.?  China Real Time, Dec. 21, 2010.
http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2010/12/21/china-more-expensive-than-the-us/

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