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Feb 10, 2012, 2:12 am
This photograph (via CDT Chinese) was taken in 2010 in Kangding city, in the Ganzi/Kardze Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of western Sichuan. The poster’s comment: “As I was out for a stroll, I happened to see a People’s Armed Police National Day patrol. Wow, that armoured car of theirs is impre... Comment - Like
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Feb 10, 2012, 1:53 am
Despite a crackdown by Hong Kong authorities on the number of women from outside the territory who can give birth there each year, the numbers of mainland women traveling south to have their babies continues to rise. From the Telegraph:
The Hong Kong administration announced last month it is to li... Comment - Like
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Feb 10, 2012, 1:22 am
China’s exports fell in January for the first time in two years, amid concern over a global economic slowdown. From Bloomberg:
Overseas shipments decreased 0.5 percent and imports fell 15.3 percent from a year earlier, the customs bureau said on its website today. The median estimate of 30 econo... Comment - Like
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Feb 9, 2012, 11:42 pm
Wang Lijun, until February 2 vice mayor and head of the Public Security Bureau of Chongqing, was seen entering the U.S. consulate in Chengdu on February 6. A rumor quickly spread that Wang was attempting to seek asylum. Wang may have lost his post for presenting evidence of corruption by CCP Chongqi... Comment - Like
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Feb 9, 2012, 11:30 pm
As netizens chatter about Wang Lijun‘s alleged attempt to seek asylum at the U.S. consulate in Chengdu, China’s most influential microblogging site, Sina Weibo, has again banned a few related keywords on its search function. Below are lists of Weibo’s banned search terms tested and uncovered b... Comment - Like
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Feb 9, 2012, 8:53 pm
Vice President Xi Jinping, who is slated to take over the helm of the Party from Hu Jintao later this year, will visit the U.S. next week. His visit comes as tensions with the U.S. are heightened over a number of issues: China’s veto of a U.S. Security Council resolution calling on Syria’s Presi... Comment - Like
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Feb 9, 2012, 6:10 am
Another Tibetan set himself on fire in Sichuan’s Aba prefecture early on Wednesday evening, according to India-based monks who gave a statement to Radio Free Asia:
The still-unidentified Tibetan man shouted slogans before self-immolating, they said.
“The protester appeared to be a monk,” Ye... Comment - Like
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Feb 9, 2012, 5:18 am
At Seeing Red in China, Yaxue Cao translates Ge Xun’s account of his recent detention and deportation (Part 2 here). Having travelled to Beijing for his mother’s funeral, Ge was held for 21 hours and violently interrogated about his involvement in various human rights causes, including online ca... Comment - Like
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Feb 9, 2012, 1:08 am
In the wake of Michigan Senate hopeful Pete Hoekstra’s widely-covered ad – one of countless campaigns attempting to use U.S. insecurities about China to generate political or economic capital – much comment and discussion about China bashing has surfaced in the media. In his Bloomberg blog, Jo... Comment - Like
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Feb 5, 2012, 1:05 am
In Syria, violence has escalated in an uprising against the government of Bashar al-Assad, including a recent shelling by Assad’s forces in Homs that reportedly killed up to 300 people. In response, the U.N. Security Council put forth a resolution calling on Assad to give up power. China and Russi... Comment - Like
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Feb 4, 2012, 2:12 am
Science fiction author William Gibson has frequently argued that “novels set in imaginary futures are necessarily about the moment in which they are written“; that the real subject matter of ’1984′ was 1948. In the London Review of Books, Perry Anderson reviews three examples of what he call... Comment - Like
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Feb 4, 2012, 2:04 am
Danwei’s Joel Martinson chronicles the war of words between author-blogger-racing driver Han Han and merciless scientific fraud slayer Fang Zhouzi. Battle lines have been drawn, with writers, publishers, cartoonists and allegedly censors arrayed on one side or the other. The fight arose from an ea... Comment - Like
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Feb 3, 2012, 7:20 pm
German Chancellor Angela Merkel is in China, sowing potentially advantageous diplomatic relations in the midst of the EU’s current economic situation. An article from NBC News’ Behind the Wall explains how, in addition to economic relief, Merkel addressed long contentious issues of domestic a... Comment - Like
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Feb 3, 2012, 6:24 pm
A deep rift in cultural identity has come into the spotlight through public expressions of the tension that exists between residents of Hong Kong and those of the mainland. The Economist outlines the beginnings of the most recent series of events:
On January 15th a young Mandarin-speaking girl d... Comment - Like
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Feb 3, 2012, 6:12 pm
Li Guosheng posted this to his Sina Weibo on January 8 with an image of the letter to the Kaifu Discipline and Inspection Commission. The message was reposted 420 times and received 98 comments. Li’s Weibo account no longer exists, but his Sina blog is still online (last updated November 18 2011).... Comment - Like
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Feb 3, 2012, 1:41 am
Radio Free Asia has posted video that reportedly shows a protest in Aba Prefecture, Sichuan, where large-scale demonstrations erupted last week, resulting in the shooting of one or more protesters by security officials. Read more about the protests on CDT.
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Jan 31, 2012, 1:46 am
Two jokes are currently circulating in Chinese cyberspace which take on current events:
The first one refers to recent tensions over the East China Sea. Answer: Bring a laptop computer there. If you can open Twitter, they belong to Japan. If you can’t open Twitter, they belong to China!
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Jan 30, 2012, 11:10 pm
A Chinese embassy official told state media on Tuesday that all of the 29 abducted Chinese workers in Sudan remain missing, despite reports from Sudanese media on Monday claiming that 14 of the workers had been freed. From The Associated Press:
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Jan 30, 2012, 10:53 pm
Update: The Liu Yong poem Zhou quotes is in Middle Chinese, not Mandarin. However, the pinyin transcription is in Modern Standard Mandarin.
Zhou Yunpeng, the blind folk rocker from the northeastern city of Shenyang, serves up tart satire in his songs. Performing at small venues in Beijing, Zhou sin... Comment - Like
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Jan 30, 2012, 10:28 pm
China Media Project discusses the implications of the December Wukan incident, including the sentiment felt within the upper echelons of China’s Communist Party leadership:
A January 27 blog post on Wukan made by lawyer Yuan Yulai (袁裕来) to his blog on the Caixin Media platform was deleted b... Comment - Like
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Jan 30, 2012, 9:37 pm
With Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou’s reelection earlier this month signalling continued stability in cross-strait relations, The Diplomat speaks to academics in Taipei about a new pilot project that will allow Taiwanese citizens to register certain small businesses in several Chinese cities and... Comment - Like
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Jan 30, 2012, 4:10 pm
Liang Sicheng is known as the “father of Chinese architecture.” He and his architect wife, Lin Huiyin, lived in an ancient courtyard home in Beijing from which they fought for the preservation of Beijing’s historic sites. Their home was demolished over the Lunar New Year holiday. The Guardian ... Comment - Like
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Jan 30, 2012, 9:45 am
Twitter’s new censorship policy may have irked Ai Wei Wei, but China’s state-run Global Times welcomed the new rules in a Monday editorial:
Many regard this declaration of adapting to local censorship laws as a pragmatic move as Twitter expands into an increasing number of countries. As the blo... Comment - Like
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Jan 30, 2012, 2:03 am
The National Post excerpts a section of Consent of the Networked: The Worldwide Struggle For Internet Freedom, by Rebecca MacKinnon, which explains the many layers of Internet censorship in China:
China’s censorship system is complex and multilayered. The outer layer is generally known as the ... Comment - Like
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Jan 19, 2012, 9:42 pm
Villagers who demonstrated against an alleged land grab in front of the Guangzhou city government building on Tuesday have won official concessions from the local government. From AFP:
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Jan 19, 2012, 7:06 pm
While authorities reluctantly prepare to cough up formerly hidden data on air quality, Caixin reports on other figures the government has preferred to keep to itself. China’s Gini coefficient, a key measure of income inequality, has not been made public since 2000, with officials blaming inadequat... Comment - Like
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Jan 19, 2012, 6:53 pm
In the New York Times, Joseph S. Nye Jr., who coined the term “soft power,” writes about why China’s efforts in that arena are not always effective:
Already in 2007, Hu told the 17th Congress of the Chinese Communist Party that China needed to invest more in its soft power resources. Accordi... Comment - Like
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Jan 19, 2012, 4:26 pm
During Premier Wen Jiabao’s visit to the Persian Gulf, he struck deals with a number of countries, including Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar, many of whom are worried by Iran’s nuclear ambitions. China, which has long been one of Iran’s only allies and a major customer for its... Comment - Like
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Jan 19, 2012, 7:33 am
Dissident writer Yu Jie, who was detained by police in 2010 for writing a critical book about Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, released a statement and held a press conference in Washington D.C. yesterday accusing the Chinese government of a long list of abuses that led him to flee the country for the U... Comment - Like
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Jan 19, 2012, 6:35 am
On Wednesday, Caixin published a blog post containing excerpts from three Wikileaked diplomatic cables from 2007. The cables described Hu Jintao’s secret visits to political gatherings at the resort town of Beidaihe, the president’s perceived weakness, rumours of corruption in Wen Jiabao’s fam... Comment - Like
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Jan 19, 2012, 5:10 am
As China extends its influence across the globe in an effort to secure resources to feed its hungry economy, The Wall Street Journal reports that Denmark has lent a hand to help it gain a presence in the Arctic:
Denmark has made a strategic decision to prioritize its economic relationship with Chin... Comment - Like
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Jan 19, 2012, 4:35 am
A Chinese court sentenced writer Li Tie to 10 years in prison for subversion on Wednesday after he wrote essays urging people to defend their rights, according to a relative. From Reuters:
The court in Wuhan in central China tried Li Tie in April last year but only declared him guilty on Tuesday of... Comment - Like
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Jan 19, 2012, 3:37 am
As part of a broader information strategy unveiled this week, the top official at China’s State Council Information Office announced nationwide expansion plans for recently implemented regulations that require microbloggers to register their identities with the government. From The New York Times:... Comment - Like
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Nov 3, 2011, 1:10 am
China Media Project translates an article by Fellow Yu Jianrong, originally published in January in Xinhua’s International Herald Leader. Yu argues that the government’s obsession with stability above all else is misguided:
I have long advocated that the ruling party reflect on the concept of ... Comment - Like
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Nov 3, 2011, 1:10 am
Premier Wen Jiabao spoke about the political attacks endured by his father and grandfather to students at his old high school in Tianjin, but his message may have been intended more for colleagues and rivals in government. The revelations follow Wen’s repeated calls for reform, which many regard a... Comment - Like
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Nov 3, 2011, 1:10 am
Chinese businesses are seen as second only to Russia’s in their readiness to hand out bribes abroad, according to a new survey. Many of the industries in which China is particularly globally active, such as energy, mining and public works construction, were also felt to host especially high levels... Comment - Like
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Nov 3, 2011, 1:10 am
An article at Slate picks apart Jon Huntsman’s brief display of his much-trumpetedly fluent Chinese on The Colbert Report:
To the extent Republican presidential candidate and former Ambassador to China Jon Huntsman is known to the public, it is for being “fluent in Chinese.” David Letterman h... Comment - Like
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Nov 3, 2011, 1:10 am
The recent announcement of new directives from China’s State Administration of Radio, Film and Television prompted speculation that viewers frustrated with sterilised broadcast offerings might turn to online video instead. Penn Olson reports an apparent move to pre-empt this by tightening enforcem... Comment - Like
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Nov 3, 2011, 12:57 am
For the Guardian, Tania Branigan reports that as traditional preferences for male children are eroding, the alarming gender gap in the population may slowly shift back to normal levels. She visits the city of Shengzhou. where in the late 1980s, 129 males were born per 100 females. By the turn of the... Comment - Like
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Nov 2, 2011, 6:34 pm
While baseball has not taken off as a sport in China, the bats are popular items on auction site Taobao, where they are sold under “self-defense,” the Los Angeles Times reports:
Though baseball has barely made a dent in the consciousness of Chinese sports fans, bats are a familiar accessory in ... Comment - Like
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Nov 2, 2011, 2:09 pm
While China’s economic growth and rapid modernization has left the world in a state of wonder, Huang Yanzhong, a professor at Seton Hall, points out China’s healthcare sector is still far behind the rest of the developed world. From Forbes:
His key damning metric: Between 1981 and 2009, average... Comment - Like
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Nov 2, 2011, 2:07 pm
As Tibetan monks set themselves ablaze in protest of Beijing’s rule, young Han Chinese are heading west to seek refuge in Buddhist teachings, often to the chagrin of their families. From USA Today:
“Look around. They could never find me here,” Sheng, 27, says of parents so anxious about their... Comment - Like
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