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Profit-driven media’s credibility hit by scandals, to be saved by values

Speculating about the future of newspapers in the digital age does not generally inspire optimistic sentiments, at least not for those still actively engaged in the “business.”In George Brock’s “...

October 10, 2014, Friday

Renewal of Confucian instrument qin offers hope for better Chinese values

In 1919, when many Chinese intellectuals abandoned Confucian values to embrace modern Western thoughts for a “better life,” about 30 aficionados of the seven-...

September 26, 2014, Friday

Historian sheds new light on foreigners who fought in first Sino-Japanese war

THE tale of the eight foreigners who took part in the great naval battle during the first Sino-Japanese war (1894-1895) has fascinated Ma Jun for 20 years.Since 1995, the Shanghai-...

September 25, 2014, Thursday

‘Going small’ can tower over skyscrapers

FOR Shanghai’s urban planners, one of the hardest parts of their work is to be constantly responsive to new realities. Elements that were in vogue just years ago, such as car-first thinking,...

September 22, 2014, Monday

If we relegate death to science, what about one’s soul?

In Gillian Bennett, I found the dignity of death. When she decided to die on her own last month, unwilling to burden her family and society, death ceased to be dreadful. How courageous she was!...

September 18, 2014, Thursday

Pendulum of frugality drive swings too far, sweeps out mooncake gifts for workers

PEOPLE’S Daily published an editorial titled “Anti-corruption blitz should not cut employee benefits” on September 8, the day of the Mid-Autumn Festival.In the editorial,...

September 15, 2014, Monday

At last, a solution to ‘corruption on wheels,’ but car auctions must be open to public

FOR years, official cars have been a scourge of corruption.Almost every government agency, public institution or state-owned enterprise is amply supplied with its own fleet of official cars....

September 10, 2014, Wednesday

Epic eruption changed the world

While Shanghai has seen an unusually cool summer this year, some Chinese provinces have experienced unusual heat and drought....

September 5, 2014, Friday

Too much charity work reeks of self-praise, quackery as more anti-graft efforts needed

In the run-up to the new school year that began on Monday, my 11-year-old son had been busy rushing through his homework.Part of this was a requirement to document each day a shanshi (charitable deed)...

September 3, 2014, Wednesday

Mobs at Luxun Park show city’s woeful lack of open space for public enjoyment

It isn’t always as easy as a walk in the park. After a year of renovation, Luxun Park reopened to the public last Thursday. But it was pandemonium when the park in northern Shanghai’...

September 1, 2014, Monday

The way of water

Wang Yong Opinion editor

Crew’s ‘undesirable moral bondage’

One man's meat

Wan Lixin Opinion deputy editor

Once branded slow kid, Unitree founder emerges as a tech icon

Woodpecker at work

Ni Tao Opinion writer

Pragmatism trumps ego: Will SAIC’s bold new alliance with Huawei tick?


 

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