Sep 15
minipost-(Letter) The Chinese essay BBC was dared to publish (contrasting argumentation styles)
Written by: Joel | Filed under:-mini-posts, culture, media | Tags:BBC, Chinese media, face, media bias, nationalism, patriotism, western media
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A Mr. Li sent this essay to the BBC and dared them to publish it. They did. Much thanks to EastSouthWestNorth for providing this English translation (See their post for additional translated reader comments.) Continue reading »
Sep 15
minipost-(Letter) Chinese Netters react to Voice of Germany Suspending Chinese Editor Zhang Danhong
Written by: guest | Filed under:-mini-posts, media, News | Tags:censorship, media, Zhang Donhong
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Chinese netters have reacted to the suspension of Voice of Germany’s veteran editor Zhang Danhong for comments that were “too pro-China”. Here’s the backgrounder. Continue reading »
Sep 14
minipost-Can democracy be the solution to Malaysia’s ethnic problems?
Written by: Allen | Filed under:-mini-posts, Analysis, News, politics | Tags:Chinese, democracy, ethnic problems, human rights, malaysia
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In a previous discussion on Malaysia’s ethnic politics, I was surprised (and dismayed) to sense the depth of dejection some ethnic Chinese in Malaysia may feel toward the political situation in Malaysia. There however may be hope. Continue reading »
Sep 14
minipost-(Letter) What has been the result of Dalai Lama’s 30-years of dialogue?
Written by: guest | Filed under:-mini-posts, politics | Tags:dalai lama, tibet, Tibet China Dialogue
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An assessment of thirty years of dialogue by Skylight.
For thirty years, Dalai Lama and the Tibetan government in Exile has approached the Chinese leadership to resolve the Tibet issue. Since the resumption of dialogue in 2002, there has been seven rounds of meeting and confidence building exercises between Dalai Lama’s envoys and the United Front Work Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. Continue reading »
Sep 13
minipost-(Letter) Imagining the current US election happens in China…
Written by: sophie | Filed under:-mini-posts, media, politics | Tags:China, democracy, politics, US election
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I have been following this year’s US election. As an onlooker, there is some kind of entertaining element in my interest. But, at the same time, I am asking myself how it would be like if this election process was run in China, a country of 1.3 billion population. Since i don’t know the US election process very well, I am asking simple questions here: how feasible is democracy or how to put it in practice in a large country without it being downgraded to image competition? Continue reading »
Sep 13
minipost-(Letter) Boohoo, “Laserdusche” Got Busted In Bejing For Protest (嗚嗚, “雷射B” 奧運抗議被抓)
Written by: guest | Filed under:-guest-posts, -mini-posts | Tags:olympics, Protest, Satire
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[Sorry my Chinese is not good, but just had to share this with the Chinese readers.] Continue reading »
Sep 11
minipost-Malaysia’s Ethnic Politics
Written by: Allen | Filed under:-mini-posts, Analysis, aside, media, News, politics | Tags:ethnic politics, featured, malaysia, plight of chinese minorities
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Malaysia over the years has been known for its share of ethnic violence against Chinese and other minorities. Most recently, Ahmad Ismail, a district chief in the United Malays National Organization ruling party, has been quoted to pronounce: Continue reading »
Sep 09
minipost-(Letter) Beijing Paralympics Opening Ceremony
Written by: guest | Filed under:-guest-posts, -mini-posts | Tags:Beijing, paralympics
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China kicked off 2008 Paralympics on September 6 (h/t to CBC for covering it): Continue reading »
Sep 09
minipost-(Translation) Jiang Yuyuan: Mommy You Don’t Have To Beg For Food
Written by: guest | Filed under:-mini-posts, culture | Tags:gymnast, olympics
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Below is a report about Olympic gymnast Jian Yuyung’s humble beginning. I found it while trying to substantiate which year Jiang, one of the gymnasts accused of being underage, entered local gymnastics program in Liozhou (appearantly 1994 when she was ONE YEAR OLD – if the allegation she was born in 1993 is true): Continue reading »
Sep 09
minipost-(Letter) East is East and West is West… will they ever meet? (a famous poem)
Written by: Joel | Filed under:-mini-posts, culture | Tags:america, China, culture, East, nationalism, race nation, racism, Rudyard Kipling, West
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Here’s a bit from a famous poem by a famous colonial-era British author. I’ll put the original and then an updated version, since his English is old and a little hard to understand. It’s from “The Ballad of East and West,” by Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936). Continue reading »
Sep 09
minipost-(Letter) One Person One ID Number
Written by: guest | Filed under:-guest-posts, -mini-posts, News | Tags:taiwan
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China has just decided to fix the ID number for the Taiwanese who use Mainland issued travel document Tai Bao Zheng, to travel from Taiwan to Mainland. This travel document is the only valid legal ID document. Continue reading »
Sep 06
minipost-(Letter) Follow up on Yang Jia
Written by: MutantJedi | Filed under:-guest-posts, -mini-posts, News, politics | Tags:crime, police, reform, Shanghai, transparency, Yang Jia
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July 9th, Buxi posted a story about Yang Jia. I think many of us were hoping that his trail would have been public, would have been transparent. But it wasn’t. Rather it was done in closed session. Continue reading »
Sep 06
minipost-Does a free marketplace of ideas really work?
Written by: Allen | Filed under:-mini-posts, Analysis, language, politics | Tags:freedom of speech, human perception, intuition, psychology
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43 Comments » newest
In a recent comment, one of our bloggers wrote, Continue reading »
Sep 05
minipost-Open Thread
Written by: admin | Filed under:-chinese-posts, -guest-posts, -mini-posts, General |
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Open thread. Comment away.
Sep 05
minipost-Pocketbook References for Tibet
Written by: Allen | Filed under:-mini-posts, Analysis, culture, Letters, politics, religion | Tags:China, featured, tibet
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Two of the most commented threads over the last week relate to Tibet. Even a neutral posting on the administration of the website has also somehow “devolved” into a debate over Tibet.
Sep 04
minipost-Uygur BBS back online
Written by: Buxi | Filed under:-mini-posts, News | Tags:internet, minorities, uygur, xinjiang
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Uighur-Online, a gathering place for many minority voices in Xinjiang that has often pushed the limits of political speech in China, is again available online (连接).
Aug 29
minipost-(Letter) Yang Peiyi and Lin Miaoke inside the Bird’s Nest
Written by: guest | Filed under:-guest-posts, -mini-posts | Tags:Beijing, olympics
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Here’s a photo of the two girls inside the Bird’s Nest, which makes Times UK’s “banned” reporting less reliable:
Aug 29
minipost-An Imperfect Perfection – Follow up
Written by: Allen | Filed under:-mini-posts, culture, music, News, politics | Tags:Lin Miaoke, mime, olympics, Opening Ceremony, Yang Peiyi
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A few weeks ago, accusations and charges of fakery in the Opening Ceremony flew in the Western media like hotcakes when it was discovered that two Chinese girls had participated in performance of the “Hymn to the Motherland” in the Opening Ceremony. We had a discussion here a few weeks ago.
Well – a few days ago, it was found out that the Australians also faked – not just one signer – but the entire orchestra! I thought this would make for an entertaining read.
We don’t need to get into the politics again… but I just wanted to follow up in case some of you missed the story…
Aug 29
minipost-(Letter) One of the things we love about living in China: our neighbours
Written by: Joel | Filed under:-mini-posts, culture | Tags:Chinese landlords, Chinese neighbours, foreigners, Tianjin
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This is a happy China story that also happens to have some fun cultural elements in it.
When we moved into this neighbourhood a year and a half ago, we’d just begun language school and could hardly communicate at all (now we’re fluent in Chinglish). We picked this neighbourhood because it has a great outdoor community atmosphere and it seemed to be average (economically) for Tianjin: not the poorest hutong (some of which recently got bulldozed) but also not a newer development. It’s mostly danwei apartments. Continue reading »
Aug 28
minipost-Beijing Welcomed You … so did you remember its song?
Written by: Nimrod | Filed under:-mini-posts, culture, music, video | Tags:Beijing, olympics, star ensemble singing
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The Olympics are over (except for the Paralympics, that is) and people have trickled out of Beijing, but still in their heads and mine is probably this catchy (some say annoying) song that was sung by an ensemble of veritable who’s-who in today’s Chinese popular music world. Chinese people seem to really like this kind of qunxing (群星) or star-ensemble singing, where phrases are sung by their favorite stars.
Aug 27
minipost-The iPhone girl update: no one was fired for a “beautiful mistake”
Written by: DJ | Filed under:-mini-posts | Tags:iPhone Girl
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I didn’t know anything about the iPhone Girl until reading her rumored firing at ESWN. The good news is that it was just a rumor.
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