In 2003, Wen Jiabao (温家宝) served as the prime minister of the government (China's No. 2 leader). To this technocrat (geological...

After SARS (see 272) ended, scientists concluded that the pandemic probably originated from a certain kind of bat or civet in Cantonese...

Why did the government initially conceal the epidemic after SARS broke out in China? (see 272) The answer is: baoxibubaoyou (报喜不报忧), a...

At the beginning of 2003, a pandemic which we have never heard before - SARS (萨斯, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) broke out in China...

In 2001, I watched two movies which I would never forget in my life. In the previous 40 years and in the following 20 years, I have never...

On November 15 2002, Hu Jintao (胡锦涛) received a great honor and a great humiliation. On that day, Hu was appointed the new leader of the...

During the decade from mid-1990s to mid-2000s, if you asked a Chinese: "Who is the most famous in this country?" He/she probably...

In China, the police arrested criminals of various occupations every day, for example, a worker or a farmer, but they have never arrested...

Before 2000, only wealthy families could afford private cars. After 2000, ordinary families began to buy private cars. People usually...

On the first day of 2002, China became a member of the WTO (World Trade Organization). From this day on, we could see this initialism in...

Today, there is no any news about Falun Gong (FLG, see 264) in the media, but people privately admit that FLG is one of the biggest...

Falun Gong (法轮功, FLG) is a new religious movement similar to Buddhism. It was founded by Li Hongzhi (李洪志) in 1990s. The main practice of...

In 2001, General Chang Hsueh-liang (张学良), one of the most controversial figures in modern Chinese history, died in the United States at...

Before 2000, all famous singers of Hong Kong and Taiwan landed on China's music (record) market, making big money which they absolutely...

Since 2000, many people installed dish-shaped satellite TV antennas at home, because they were tired of the party's political propaganda...

From 1950s to 1990s, if you were a worker in a factory (or other state-owned institutions), the factory would allocate you an apartment...

On April 1, 2001, a US Air Force reconnaissance aircraft collided with a China Air Force fighter over the South China Sea. The fighter...

During two decades after the 9/11 incident, many Afghan place names that had never been heard before, such as Kabul, Herat, Kandahar,...

In the early morning of September 12, 2001 (Beijing time), my wife suddenly woke me up and said loudly: "Watch TV! Watch TV! Someone...

Suppose in a province, there is a dam which lacks reinforcement and maintenance. When the rainy season came, the dam collapsed, flooding...