Today is the Qing Ming holiday in China. Literally translated as Clear Brightness Festival, it is more descriptively known as Tomb Sweeping Day, when one honors one’s ancestors often by visiting and cleaning up their tombs.
The famous Chinese poet Du Mu wrote a poem called Qingming:
In the endless rain of the Qing Ming season, [...]
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As you may recall China recently promulgated new “public disclosure” regulations (see here). The South China Morning Post ran an article yesterday (regrettably a subscription is required to access SCMP content), that reviewed the numbers for Shanghai on the processing of requests for information made by the public in 2008. These are requests for public [...]
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. . . except it’s nice and sunny in Shanghai. I’m booked solid today, so I will have to leave you hanging. You should be reading the Waxman-Markey bill anyway, so enjoy the reprieve.
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House Energy and Commerce Chair Henry Waxman (D-CA) and Energy and Environment Subcommittee Chair Ed Markey (D-MA) released their energy and climate bill yesterday. The bill is 648 pages long, so we here at CELB haven’t had time to make it through the whole thing, but here’s our first take on the how the bill [...]
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