Statistics are fun. I like it when a statistic is published like the following one and people are expected to take it seriously.

"For Deng Jun, a child psychologist in Beijing, books such as Give Me Back the Dream portray the reality for millions of young people. 'Official government statistics speak of between 500 and 700 teenagers reported with depression in China, but these figures are very conservative,' she said."

This quote is from The Guardian and the full article can be read at this link.

I really wonder what is meant by publishing a figure like this. Is anyone going to believe it? This would mean there are between two and five depressed teens out of each million or so in China.

I found some great blog posts. Both of them I found through Danwei. The first is about a pamphlet from the eighties right after China began to make reforms under Deng Xiaoping and open up. The pamphlet is all about decadent music from Hong Kong, Taiwan, and America. There is a translation of some good bits from the pamphlet and a link to a PDF version of the original here.

I found a link to a great blog -- Zhong-Mei -- by an American living in China through Danwei, the same site mentioned in the above paragraph. The blogger Zhong-Mei translated a magazine article from tanhuang chunqiu about the Beginning of the Red Guards and the Cultural Revolution in 1966. A very interesting article, translated very nicely. Here is the Danwei link.

I found this link on danwei.org for a video they did on Graffiti artists in Shanghai. Here is the Youtube link for the interview, and here is the link to the same video on tudou dot com if you are in China, it is quicker. Definitely worth watching if the subject interests you. Decent interviews as well as some nice shots of actual work and also information on where to go to find pieces.