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07 Sep 08 visit Hong Kong Legislative Council Election Post-Mortem Analysis A comparison of public opinion polls, exit polls and actual voting results.
05 Sep 08 visit Was iPhoneGirl A Phony? yWeekend reporter Ma Jun spoke to Foxconn, Apple, Internet promoters and others but still could not decide whether the iPhoneGirl affair was just a clever promotional campaign.
04 Sep 08 visit Anna Mae He Is Not Coming Home The father of Anna Mae He describes how WMC-TV (Memphis, TN) took his comments out of context and made believe that he wants to bring his family back to America.
03 Sep 08 visit The Fictive Wu Jinglian Spy Case Famous Chinese economist Wu Jinglian was reported by overseas websites to be involved in an espionage case. Caijing interviews the overseas website operators to to show the inadequacies of 'civilian journalism.'
01 Sep 08 visit Finish This Cup Of Tea And Go Home Choreographer Chiang Ching narrates her absurdist experience during the staging of the opera Tea-The Heart's Mirror in Beijing.
01 Sep 08 visit Cao Jingxing On The Chinese People During The Olympics Chinese commentator Cao Jingxing offers his view on the past, present and future of the Beijing Olympics.
31 Aug 08 visit Yang Lijuan Sues Blogger Song Zude Andy Lau's super-fan Yang Lijuan sues blogger Song Zude for defamation in a Guangzhou court. Does freedom of speech permit the right to call someone else a "stinking feces-making machine"?
29 Aug 08 visit Testing The Chinese Olympic Volunteers Americans and reporters go undercover to test the language skills of the Olympic volunteers.
27 Aug 08 visit Public Opinion Polls And The Hong Kong Legislative Council Elections So many public opinion polls about the Hong Kong Legco Elections and so many different poll results. Who should you believe? How should you vote?
25 Aug 08 visit FM Theatre Power vs. Hong Kong Netizens FM Theatre Power is a street performance troupe that has performed regularly on the pedestrian street in the Mongkok district. But now there is a Facebook group with 10,000 members against the group. The relevant issues are pubic space, live arts, civil...
25 Aug 08 visit An Incident On A Long-distance Bus A case of sexual assault on a bus became an Internet human flesh search for the perpetrators, but the netizens who tried to follow the bus were assaulted by the bus workers.
21 Aug 08 visit The Southern Weekend Interview with Lang Ping Interview with "Iron Hammer" Lang Ping, who led the 1984 Chinese women's volleyball Olympic champions and now coaches the American national team at the Beijing Olympics.
17 Aug 08 visit The Shame of Democracy Translation of a blog post about the practice of democracy in relation to Chen Shui-bian, the Democratic Progressive Party and the Chinese Internet.
15 Aug 08 visit The Girl With The Uneven/Crooked/Buck Teeth and the Fat/Chubby Face This is a collection of news reports and blog/forum posts on the matter of the "faked singing" involving Lin Miaoke and Yang Peiyi at the 2008 Beijing Olympic opening ceremony.
12 Aug 08 visit Why Did I Remove My Safety Hat? Southern Weekend publishes a profile of Jeremy Goldkorn of Danwei.org.
11 Aug 08 visit Chin, The Surveillance State How might the Chinese people think about their surveillance state which consists of closed-circuit television, bugged taxi cabs, monitored telecommunications, etc?
09 Aug 08 visit Chinese Internet Reacts To Olympics Opening Ceremony Chinese netizens comment on the extravaganza that was the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics.
02 Aug 08 visit The First "Human Flesh Search" Trial A summary of the progress and issues involved in the case in which three websites were sued for invasion of the privacy of an alleged unfaithful husband whose wife committed suicide.
26 Jul 08 visit The Hong Kong Reporters Deserve To Be Beaten? Should Li Yapeng have assaulted the reporter who tried to film his daughter? Should the Beijing police have assaulted the Hong Kong reporters trying to cover the Beijing Olympics ticket sales?
26 Jul 08 visit The Battle of Beijing - Part 1 At the scene of the Olympics ticket sales, the Beijing police manhandled Hong Kong reporters and got kicked in the balls.
17 Jul 08 visit A Reporter Visits Wengan China News Weekly reporter Wang Weibo reflects on his experience in Wengan as well as the information management processes in place at this time.
10 Jul 08 visit Weng'an, an unpeaceful county city A Southern Weekend article describes the demographics and grievances of the people who joined the demonstration march from the riverbank to the county government buildings.
07 Jul 08 visit The Case of Fragrant Chrysanthemum 1986 A female boasted about the benefits that she enjoyed as the kept mistress of a senior government official, and the human flesh search engines flushed out the wrong female.
02 Jul 08 visit This Week's Jimmy Lai Stories Next Media boss Jimmy Lai is interviewed by Newsweek (USA) and also gets a 12-page front cover story in EastWeek (Hong Kong).
01 Jul 08 visit The Weng'an Mass Incident A collection of information about the death of a 15-year-old female student and the ensuing mass riot at government buildings in Weng'an county, Guizhou province.
27 Jun 08 visit The Bilingual Eileen Chang, Part 2: Henry David Thoreau Here are three poems by Henry David Thoreau that Eileen Chang once translated for an anthology of American poetry. These translations are not well-known.
23 Jun 08 visit De-Politicization and Pan-Politicization of Chinese University Intra-Nets The string of political events this year is turning the website Xiaonei.com for Chinese university students into a political hotbed.
22 Jun 08 visit The Earthquake, the Internet and Sima Nan This is an Economic Observer interview of Sima Nan about his essay arguing against the Nanfang Daily group editorials/opinion essays on behalf of universal values such as human rights, democracy, freedom and so on.
22 Jun 08 visit The Chronicle of Runner Fan A review of the various twists and turns in the chronicle of the teacher Fan Meizhong who left his students and ran away first when the earthquake struck.
15 Jun 08 visit The Runaway Teacher Partial transcript from the now famous Phoenix TV program with teacher Fan Meizhong, who dashed out of the classroom when the earthquake hit and left his students behind.
08 Jun 08 visit The Interview With The Kneeling Party Secretary This is an interview with the Mianzhu Party Secretary who knelt down to beg parents who lost their children in a collapsed school building to stop a petition march.
04 Jun 08 visit The Cadillac Incident At Hunan University A collection of Internet posts about an incident involving two male students, a female student and a Cadillac. Whose side are you on? The lovesick drunken ex-lover boy, or the rich son of a corrupt senior government official with the kept mistress.
03 Jun 08 visit The Case of Fan Xiaohua Fan Xiaohua is suspected of misappropriation of a disaster relief tent and aggravated personal assault in Mianyang city, but the Chinese human flesh search engines went after Communist Youth League secretary Fan Xiaohua in Mianzhu city instead.
02 Jun 08 visit Why Did the Building Collapse? Who was responsible for the 127 deaths when the Fuxin Number Two Elementary School classroom building collapsed? School officials, government officials, architects or building contractors?
01 Jun 08 visit The Mianzhu Highway Robbery A case of apparent looting of disaster relief materials on the highway was solved by Internet users, a policeman and a newspaper reporter.
01 Jun 08 visit The Dream And Reality Of Earthquake Prediction Fang Zhouzi reviews the subject of earthquake prediction.
30 May 08 visit The Story of Donations Gate Translation of a Southern Weekend article about how multinational and Chinese companies in the game of corporate donations towards earthquake relief in this Internet era.
27 May 08 visit Ten Observations About The Post-Earthquake Mess PA Chinese blogger makes observations about what he deduced about society, politics and media from the news about the Sichuan earthquake.
24 May 08 visit Sorry, But I'll Have To Hurt Your Feelings Writer Yang Hengjun explains why he felt compelled to be critical about government rescue efforts in the Sichuan earthquake. He wrote that his conscience would be panged if he kept silent and he wants the government to do even better.
24 May 08 visit Earthquake Rumors How did rumors start flying around Chengdu after the earthquake? Was the water contaminated by a chemical factory explosion? Was the Zipingzu dam going to collapse? Was there going to be a magnitude 7 earthquake in Chengdu itself?
24 May 08 visit Natural Disaster, Human Faults Photos of parents holding photos of their deceased children. Did the school building collapse so easily because of deliberately shoddy construction?
13 May 08 visit The Sichuan Earthquake Numerous photos from various sources about the earthquake centered in Sichuan province. This page will be continuously updated.
08 May 08 visit The Olympic Torch Relay Inside China The crowds were enthusiastic as shown in these photos, which also exposed the poor civic quality of some Chinese citizens.
07 May 08 visit The Duke University Witchhuntt Scott Savitt publishes an opinion piece in the Duke University Chronicle about the matter of Chinese student Grace Wang, and promptly gets tripped up in a minor detail over who picked up Grace Wang when she first arrived.
02 May 08 visit Huangfu Ping on Tibet The 9,000 plus word essay by Huangfu Ping is translated here in full.
30 Apr 08 visit How The Western Media And The Tibetan Elite Hijacked The Tibet Issue A Chinese blogger reacts to the New York Times article about Chinese students in the United States.
28 Apr 08 visit Crisis Management At Carrefour Translation of a China Business report on the thirteen days of public relations crisis management at Carrefour.
25 Apr 08 visit Carrefour in Hefei: A Photo Play Photos of the demonstration outside the Carrefour store in Hefei city (Anhui province) on April 19, 2008.
25 Apr 08 visit Unexpected 'Readers' of Free Newspapers in Hong Kong Free market in operation: In Hong Kong, senior citizens earn extra money by picking up the free newspapers and selling them for recycling.
25 Apr 08 visit Why Is CNN Patriotic? Chinese blogger Yang Hengjun analyzes the background, history and strategies over Jack Cafferty's gaffe over at CNN about the Chinese 'goons and thugs.'

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