China
- Population: 1.3 billion (UN, 2005)
- Capital: Beijing
- Area: 9.6 million sq km (3.7 million sq miles)
- Major language: Mandarin Chinese
- Major religions: Buddhism, Christianity, Islam, Taoism
- Life expectancy: 70 years (men), 73 years (women) (UN)
- Monetary unit: 1 Renminbi (yuan) (Y) = 10 jiao = 100 fen;
- China Daily – state-run, English-language
China is the kind of the place that will drive you crazy. A land where you will never truly understand the reason why things are happening around you.
Road Junky has 24 China articles. Scroll down to view.
Chinese TV - Foreign Babes in Beijing
We just found on Google Video a montage of scenes from the hilarious Foreign Babes in Beijing, the Chinese soap opera that inspired actress Racehl DeWoskin to write an ...
Lu Guang's Photos of Environmental Devastation in China
Last year we wrote an editorial in disgust that the Olympiscs were being held in China, the modern day hell. Some suggested that we were exaggerating a little, that ...
Walking On Water at the Summer Palace, China
China has never really been a ‘fair’ place. The people were never given the idea of equality, and if we believe the propaganda, then they never really wanted it. Yet ...
China - So Where the Hell is the Communism?
I spent New Year in Beijing, searching for Communism in post-Olympic China. I couldn’t really find it…
When darkness falls and the cold winds pick up in bad part of ...
Poling the Planet, Punting in China
Working for a living is the kind of common thread that can draw people together across the world. And even if you don’t really work for a living but just ...
In China, East Does Meet West, After All
Sour-faced, the stocky waitress leans across and peers between the near-empty bread slices. Shrugging her shoulders, clearly offended at the mere suggestion this tuna sandwich is lacking the key ingredient ...
Arrested in China and Facing 6 Months in A Chinese Prison
April 19, 2006
The gate of thick steel bars clanged shut behind me, followed by a second solid metal door behind it. Clicking heels on cold tiles echoed down ...
China Tortures Tai Chi Rebels - the Falun Gong Story
Most violent regimes concentrate their persecution against democratic protests, dissident students or armed rebels. Leave it to China to bring a surreal edge to institutional brutality and torture, however. The ...
A Year Teaching English in China
This summer many new graduates will head off to teach English in China, attracted by the 2008 Olympics buzz. Last year, eager for distraction during caffeine-fueled revision, I was one ...
"China Blue", Sweatshops and Jeans - World Film
China Blue is an outstanding and tragic documentary that will make you never want to wear a pair of jeans again.
Micha Peled’s film was shot secretly inside a Chinese ...
The Chinese Olympics in Hell
Oh, China! That mythical land of martial arts and calligraphy, temple bells and dragons, Taoist wisdom and Oriental secrets!
Dream on.
For no matter how many times over-excited presenters gabble on about ...
Beijing Olympics - Will All Hell Break Loose?
What happens when you combine the world’s largest event with a police state intent on silencing dissidents?
We’re going to find out! In 2008 the summer Olympics will be held throughout ...
The Chinese Tea Ceremony Scam
Ok I admit it – I got suckered bad.
Maybe I’ve just grown soft and let my guard down a little. It’s embarrassing for me to admit getting ripped off. Over ...
Sexy Beijing TV - "Sex in the City" in China?
As Internet video channels emerge, Danwei TV is a hit with its leading show, Sexy in Beijing drawing over half a million viewers – and so what if ...
A Beijing Travel, China
Back in Beijing, the girl playing the ancient “xun” instrument inside the main hall of the Confucius temple is playing “Old Lang Syne” to attract buyers. Outside the hall are ...
A Beijing Journey. China Travel Story
“Have you been to the Greek War?”
The 19-year-old Chinese waitress in Frank’s Place was trying out her English and that was the question she’d hit me with. I had been ...
Crazy Hong Kong Travel Story
Hong Kong is crazy.
It started, the way so many journeys today do, at the airport. Before you even reach immigration, you have to pass the duty-free gauntlet. But no ...
Beijing Underground City, China
Longer than the Great Wall of China. Stretches to five cities in China: Beijing, Shanghai, Xian, Tianjin and Nanjing. Room to house 300,000 people. Contains a cinema, two hospitals, ...
Yin Yang Traffic China Travel Story
We’d flown into Kunming and spent just a night there, but the changes in the anthropological landscape were immediately striking: this was now quite obviously Central Asia. The people ...
Chinese Arrest Activists, Obviously
Activists from Aliveinbaghdad.org and graffitiresearchlab.com detained for ‘disturbing public order’.
China: World Center of the Organ Business - From Executed Prisoners
the BBC follow the trail of cheap organs for sale in Chinese hostpitals back to executed prisoners who make a ‘present to society’.
Sexy Beijing - Wedding Gone Wild
New episode from our favorite Jewish Beijing resident – Su Fei.
