Category Archives: China

Visit This Place!!

You know, I never really thought too much about what it would really be like, the Expo I mean. Of course, for years now there has always been this discussion and that plan, this project and that meeting. But I … Continue reading

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Weep, Sad Freaks of the Nation

I just exist as a material thing. Furniture. I will stand with you. I must. Because… Just because of the repression I experienced, don’t think that other people won’t do what I did. That’s not human nature,” Gao said. “If … Continue reading

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Ergo Space Pig

Shanghai can be fun sometimes. Recently I was on the subway at a very light time of the day. Nearby were two tourists or business-folk, Shandong perhaps, with a nice, clean Northern accent. Not far away, in different directions, were … Continue reading

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I'm a Flash, I'm a Fake

I was asked by Dan Harris through email to remove a comment on the most recent CDE post, informing me that it was spoofed. This makes me wonder whether the original email supposedly from CDE to me was spoofed as … Continue reading

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Time to Stop Wasting Time

I haven’t got much these days. Real life has taken center stage, obviously. Thanks to FOARP for stopping by. It was funny to see Jianshuo notice a general slump in blogging, which is quite interesting. I also noticed that the … Continue reading

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A Proud and Booming Industry

It just burns me, the petty little games played by the political censors. You know, whereas the rest of us are worried about the real economy, in this ersatz industry, every effort is paid to make sure that numbers are … Continue reading

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Sentencing in Shishou

[Cross-posted at FOARP] Remember Shishou? It was before Urumqi, but after Lhasa. Well, the five people who the local authorities have accused of “organising and inciting” the riots in which more than 60 police officers were injured have been sentenced, … Continue reading

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It's Crippling, Never Really Knowing

Jeremey Goldkorn at Guardian confirms many of my suspicions about the internet blocking: I do not even know if the block was a decision made by a person, or the effects of a filtering software that decided we had too … Continue reading

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Perfect for the Experts

In casting about for a decent topic of the day, I found that Bill D has a new domain, http://thisischinablog.com/ One of my failings is that I do not search the English China-Web, and do not run through a list … Continue reading

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Mistakes are repeated over…

This review of a Joseph Stiglitz piece in Le Monde diplomatique, from Eurozine is interesting: In Le Monde diplomatique (Berlin), Joseph E. Stiglitz urges the G20 to find global answers to the financial crisis, instead of sticking to strategies that … Continue reading

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