Vital signs

Article Abstract:

China's National People's Congress showed unprecedented signs of independent thought recently when it voted against a proposed govt bill and a Communist Party nominee. Analysts view the assertiveness variously as signs of the provinces' restlessness or a healthy evolution of the govt. In one vote 36% of the deputies voted against Jiang Chunyun for vice-premier. It was a sharp setback to the apparatchik, in contrast to an 86% vote for fellow nominee Wu Bangguo. Also, 33% voted against a new central-bank law.

Economic policy, Appointments, resignations and dismissals, China. National People's Congress, Federal-provincial controversies, People's Bank of China, Jiang Chunyun

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For the record: photographer captures old Shanghai's vanishing grandeur

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Photographer Erh Dongqiang's work captures the spirit of a past Shanghai and southern China, infusing two books so far and a slew of magazines with charm and antiquity. He and Tess Johnston cofounded Old China Hand Press in 1993, and have published 'A Last Look' and 'New to Heaven.' Emphasizing architecture and rarely showing people, the pictures evoke a world of ghosts and regret singularly appropriate as Shanghai demolishes 4 billion square ft to make room for urban renewal.

Photographers, Portrayals, Works, Erh Dongqiang

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China's new money

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Blank receipts for meals and services are being peddled in China. Receipts represent expenses public sector employees have incurred and their employers subsequently reimburse them for these, considering it as a kind of compensation. Peddling receipts is rampant in Peking and other cities in China. Such receipts are functionally a form of currency. They can be accounted, they have value and they can be used as exchange units.

Ethical aspects, Crime, Expense accounts, Receipts

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