Leila Lee Archive

Chinese officials have ordered mass killing of poultry as an emergency measure to prevent the deadly flu spreading throughout seriously infected cities in China. The flu is thought to be caused by the H7N9 virus, parasitic in wild birds and live poultry. …

China’s centuries-long tradition of celebrating Chinese New Year with spectacular firework displays may be at an end with the government now considering a permanent ban as the practice is blamed for intensifying air pollution. A severe haze hit Beijing as well as its …

China has paid for its long-term air pollution with an unprecedented haze shrouding Beijing and sparking mass panic over the past three days. On January 12, the Beijing Municipal Environmental Monitoring Centre (BMEMC) announced that the official measurements of PM2.5 fine particulates had reached 993 …

The Chinese media is fed up with censorship has been punished for advocating political reform. On January 4 the Beijing Communication Administration (BCA) shut down the official website of outspoken magazine, Yan Huang Chun Qiu (YHCQ). Before the denial of service, YHCQ had …

It may be rubbish in most people’s eyes but for Beijing-based artist Dong Song these items are valuable family heirlooms because of the memorable stories they tell. On December 13, Dong Song brought his latest work Waste Not to Sydney for an …

China’s anti-corruption drive through social media received its first triumph when a whistleblower leaked a Chongqing official’s sex photographs on Weibo, Chinese Twitter. Zhengfu Lei, the Party Secretary of the Beipei district in Chongqing, was dismissed on November 23, three days after …

Two internationally acclaimed exhibitions in Sydney early next year will put the spotlight on daily life in China under Mao Zedong. Beijing-based artist Song Dong will display household items his mother collected in China over the last 50 years in a work …

China’s weak  copyright laws have exposed its young people, at home and abroad, to the scrutiny of powerful corporations, leading the Chinese Government to improve public awareness of copyright protection. On November 16, NBC Universal  sent a warning to a Chinese student studying …

Australia’s Asian Century White Paper was welcomed as a great gift for China’s new president Xi Jinping in the Chinese media which also dubbed Australia a “Reform Vanguard” in the second Industrial Revolution led by Asia. The White Paper, which aims to …

China’s yuppies celebrated Barack Obama’s win in the American election on social media, but are showing less passion about their own country’s new leadership transition. While the new president Xi Jinping and the other six Central Committee members were announced on November …