Let’s get something out of the way first: The Yulin Dog Meat Festival in Southern China is a disgusting, cruel, and indefensible event — thousand of dogs and cats are inhumanly killed there each year. ... Read More
Category: China Editorial
I ate dog just once, and it was an accident. A Chinese scrap-metal dealer with whom I'm friendly invited me to a fancy hotpot restaurant in Chongqing. As the waitress delivered bowl after bowl of ... Read More
July 3, 20164Guardians2
Why this article is called Prelude? Because it is just the first of a lot of articles that will follow on the issue of fur fashion. No other fashion “material” divides public opinion in the ... Read More
April 22, 20164Guardians2
Peter J. Li, Ph.D., an Associate Professor of East Asian Politics at the University of Houston-Downtown and China Policy Specialist of Humane Society International, first came to the U.S. from China to study at Syracuse ... Read More
April 7, 20164Guardians2
It’s fair to say that the varied threads of Pamela Paquin’s life have come together in Petite Mort Fur, the accidental fur fashion business she has built over the past two-and-half years. With a presence ... Read More
March 30, 20164Guardians2
Picture living in horrible conditions your whole life, in a cramped cage with no food or water. Then all of a sudden you are dragged out from your cage, almost beaten to death then your ... Read More
March 30, 20164Guardians2
Don’t look now but China is about to score another propaganda victory. This time the chosen battlefield is the rarefied but nicely symbolic world of dog fancying. China’s objective, not for the first time, is ... Read More
March 30, 20164Guardians2
Last weekend's sixth Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) — a high-level trade summit held in Johannesburg, South Africa — marks the first time that the illegal trade in ivory was high on the agenda at ... Read More
January 4, 20164Guardians2
For years, apart from lecturing on courses including Philosophy of Science, Natural Dialectics and the Philosophical Trends of Western Postmodernism, Jiang Jinsong has chaired a forum at Tsinghua University entitled “Animal Ethics and the Culture ... Read More
November 19, 20154Guardians2
Two weeks ago, I wrote about animal cruelty in China, specifically the careless, and sometimes predatory, practices of dog shelters and the belief among some butchers that causing animals as much pain as possible enhances ... Read More
November 19, 20154Guardians2