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发帖数: 6973 | 1 (1) Michael Meyer, China's Big Zhang. New York Times, Jan. 2, 2011 )op-ed).
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/02/opinion/02meyer.html?_r=1&scp
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/ind
(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/SB1000142405297020446720457604704
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-hop
("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-resu
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-
("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-expens |
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