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04 Nov 09
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China: Made-in-China Snow This past Sunday on Nov. 1, Beijing saw its earliest snowfall in 22 years. The sudden change in weather, which blanketed the entire city in snow, surprised many residents. But the news media later reported that the snowfall had actually been enhanced by... |
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03 Nov 09
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China: The worker struggle The China study has an in-depth report on the rise of semi-autonomous worker struggle through collective actions in China.. |
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03 Nov 09
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China: Electoral Reform China’s top legislature, the National People’s Congress, has started discussion on a draft amendment to the Electoral Law, which will ensure voters in the countryside have as much influence as voters in the cities. The draft amendment tabled for f... |
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03 Nov 09
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Russia: AK-47 & Copyright; Time Zones Eternal Remont writes about “copyright protection for the AK-47″; FP's Passport writes about plans to cut the 7-hour time difference between Moscow and Vladivostok to 4 hours. |
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01 Nov 09
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Bangladesh: Chinese Pressure Censors Tibet Exhibition In Dhaka Students for a Free Tibet, Bangladesh (SFTBD), in partnership with Drik Bangladesh, a photo agency, has organized a photography exhibition on Tibet in Dhaka. A delegation from the Chinese embassy came to request that the event should be cancelled but the... |
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30 Oct 09
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China: Bridging the gap? Interviewing bridge bloggers in China The Chinese blogosphere, as we all know, is booming. As one of the largest on the planet, it is constantly evolving and simultaneously being set back by the all-too-famous governmental censorship. According to Li Datong, the country’s civil society ... |
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30 Oct 09
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China: The death of an overseas returnee China Hush has a translation of a report from Southern Metropolis Daily on the suicide of Tu Xuxin, a civil engineering PhD who returned from the U.S.A to China to develop his career in a local university. |
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29 Oct 09
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Egypt: Egyptian Male Blogger Orders Artificial Hymen So much was said and written about the artificial virginity hymen kit - that Egyptian male blogger Mohamed Al Rahhal just had to buy one. Marwa Rakha brings us the story. |
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29 Oct 09
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China: Painted plagiarism of a push-up photograph Joel Martinsen from DANWEI highlighted a recent painted plagiarism scandal by an artist named Li Yueliang. |
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28 Oct 09
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China: Why Western Media Mistakes Matter C. Custer from Chinageeks discussed the issue on why western media mistakes matter. |
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28 Oct 09
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China's Dark Satanic Mills On Oct. 14th, Chinese photographer Lu Guang won this year's $30,000 W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography for his photos on China’s environment. The Fund’s website posts the following paragraph describing Lu Guang’s project:
Lu Gua... |
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27 Oct 09
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China: Shanghai schoolgirl beating & human flesh search Fauna from ChinaSMACK translated a local report from Netease on a school bully incident and netizens' action in disclosing the girl's identity via human flesh search. |
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27 Oct 09
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Germany and China: Berlin Twitter Wall berlintwitterwall is a project organized by the city of Berlin to mark the 20th anniversary of the fall of Berlin wall. The wall is now filled up with messages from Chinese twitterers against the Chinese Great Fire Wall which blocks Chinese Internet user... |
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25 Oct 09
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China: Relics of the Old Summer Palace Back in the news again is Beijing’s Old Summer Palace, whose destruction still remains a sensitive topic in China.
Built during the Qing Dynasty, it was later sacked by British and French troops in 1860 during the Second Opium War. Countless works of a... |
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23 Oct 09
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Activism and Motherhood in Asia What does a woman sacrifice for the cause she fights for? How are her children affected by persecution taken against her? This post explores briefly the lives of women activists in Asia who are also mothers. |
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23 Oct 09
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Adoption: Securing the Rights of Mothers and Children Women speak out from all sides of the issue: adoptees, natural mothers and adoptive mothers try to make sense of the legal, reproductive and human rights issues behind adoptions. |
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23 Oct 09
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China: A foreigner’s life in a Beijing jail A foreign man who spent the last seven months in the Beijing No. 1 Detention Center sent DANWEI a detailed account of his daily life in Jail. |
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22 Oct 09
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China: Nobel Dream This month, the Chinese press and online forums are saturated with coverage of Charles Kao’s winning of the Nobel Prize in Physics. Yet another overseas Chinese scientist has snatched the prestigious prize, this temporary moment of shared glory is quick... |
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22 Oct 09
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China: Fanfou is coming back? Fanfou is a micro-blogging tool similar to twitter which has been closed down for more than 100 days in China. However, many still have hope that it will be back. Chinageeks translated a blog post by He Caitou discussing fanfou users' loyalty towards... |
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22 Oct 09
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China: Best and worse countries for journalists Joyceyland comments on the Reporter without borders‘ release on press freedom index. The blogger is surprised by the ranking of mainland China #168. |
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21 Oct 09
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China: Girl protester lifted away ESWN translated a story about a girl protester being lifted away by police officers on the national day in Shanghai when she showed a banner telling the story of forced demolition that cost her mother's life. |
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21 Oct 09
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China: The Power of Symbolic Appropriation in Chinese Cyberspace The China beat has posted an adapted article of Guobin Yang's recent talk at a conference on New Media and Global Transformations early this month. The talk was about Chinese netizens' appropriation of an online anonymous post “Jia Junpeng, yo... |
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21 Oct 09
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China and U.S: Oba Mao A new icon combining Chairman Mao Zedong and U.S President Obama is on the rise in China. Check this out: Serving the people T-shirt and Oba Mao bag. |
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20 Oct 09
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China: From heroic to ignorant masses, and then… The Chinese communist ideology has been eroding rapidly in the past two decades due to economic development. Traces of its revolutionary belief can still be found in political propaganda pieces published in the state owned media. Words like “the... |
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19 Oct 09
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China: Does Internet matter? Li Huafang discusses the relation between the Internet and politics with reference to Yang Guobin's paper, the Internet and Civil Society in China: a preliminary assessment, and Hu Yong's book, the Rising Cacophony: Personal expression and Public... |
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19 Oct 09
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China: Fisherman buys newspaper Ad to thank government ESWN translated an interesting local news story about Chongqi fish farmers having spent 100,000 yuan in thanking the local government's anti corruption campaign. The story is both a praise and a parody of the government as fighting against corruption... |
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16 Oct 09
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China: From class struggle to marry ESWN translates a debate that reflects the young generation's value in present day China. The debate is on whether the Chinese communist party's model drama heroine, White Haired Girl, should marry the evil landlord. |
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16 Oct 09
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China: How old is the motherland? Joel Martinsen from DANWEI translated several articles reacting to the propaganda that equalized the 60th anniversary of PRC to 60-year-old birthday of motherland (China). |
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16 Oct 09
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Israel: Can Tel Aviv Become a Biking Mecca? Can Tel Aviv join the Netherlands and China as an ideal location for cyclists? Ami Vider of Tel Aviv Tomorrow discusses its potential. |
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15 Oct 09
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Safeguarding the world's cultural heritage Many organisations working to preserve global cultural heritage - both tangible and intangible - have been using online media to support their efforts. |
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15 Oct 09
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China: Blocking Tor and increase of bridge users Tor was partially blocked in China end of September. The graphs posted at the blog of torproject show that in response to the blocking of tor, the number of bridge users has grown significantly in China. |
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15 Oct 09
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China: Graduate thesis or practical training? The purpose and function of university education has been a highly debatable topic both in the East and the West. In China, people strongly believe that education is a route to success and in the past few years, the number of university students has... |
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14 Oct 09
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China: Vist to North Korea Alice Liu translated Rose Luqiu Luwei (闾丘露薇)'s blog post on her trip to North Korea to report on Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao's visit. Luqiu Luwei is an executive news editor for Hong Kong's Phoenix Satellite Television. |
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14 Oct 09
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China: Premier Wen Jiabao apologizes Eric Mu from DANWEI translates and puts together some local mainstream media report on Premier Wen Jiabao's apology on a minor mistake in a speech to middle school youth. |
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14 Oct 09
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China: Major Crisis at Caijing Magazine C.A Yeung from Under the Jacaranda Tree blogs about the collective resignation incident at Caijing Magazine, the finance publication in China. |
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13 Oct 09
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China: Banning foreign investment in online game Chad Catacchio from Stir fired China comments on the Chinese government's recent ban on foreign investment in online game. The blogger believes that the policy is to do with the central government's concern about the contamination of youths'... |
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12 Oct 09
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China: Your ethnic group can’t use the internet “Your ethnic group can't use the internet” has become a popular phrase in the Internet in China. It comes from a 27-year-old Uighur photographer's real life experience in a hotel in Shenyang. Rob from Black and White Cat translated the... |
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10 Oct 09
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China: The Founding of a Republic! Propaganda, or a commercial success with some irony? Only 3 weeks after hitting the screen, The Founding of a Republic has already taken in nearly $ 60 million. Naturally, it has created a huge stir in China’s online community. A simple indication is Google China’s hot trend list, where this movie... |
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09 Oct 09
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China: Internet Human Rights Declaration C.A. Yeung from Under the Jacaranda Tree has translated the Internet Human Rights Declaration issued by 15 public intellectuals in China. |
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09 Oct 09
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China: Democracy debate ESWN has translated two forum posts on the nature of democracy. One claimed that democracy is completely useless, the other one argued against it. |
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09 Oct 09
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China: What Lies between Chinese Writers and the Nobel Prize? Fools Mountain tried to explain why there isn't any mainland Chinese writers getting the Nobel Prize yet. |
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08 Oct 09
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Will Egypt import Chinese Hymens? An artifical hymen kit is now available in the market. Egyptian law makers have banned the product while bloggers continue to debate the cons and pros of this Chinese 'invention' - and question its morality. |
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08 Oct 09
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China and Hong Kong: Jackie Chan's comment on military parade In order to promote nationalism and celebrate the 60th anniversary of PRC, CCTV invited internationally well-known movie star Jackie Chan to comment on military parade. In the interview, Jackie Chan kept stressing that China is awesome and great and that... |
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08 Oct 09
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China: Grass Mud Horse, Motherland C. Custer from ChinaGeeks translated some comments from Anti-CNN forum on Ai Weiwei's short video “Grass Mud Horse, Motherland”, which was exhibited in Munich to “celebrate” the 60th anniversary of PRC. |
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07 Oct 09
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China: Plenty of trash to burn As landfills run out of space and NIMBY protests occur across China, the number of trash incineration plants has increased in step. With one such plant planned for a densely-populated residential area in Guangzhou, locals have plenty of heated words for... |
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07 Oct 09
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China: Stopping people's grievances from visiting Beijing The letter and visit petition system (xinfang) is an administrative system for hearing complaints and grievances from individuals in China. The state and local bureaus of letters and visits are in charge of receiving letters, calls and visits from... |
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07 Oct 09
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China: Tweets during the national holidays CDT translated some politically-minded tweets during the national holidays commenting on the military parade and celebrations. |
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05 Oct 09
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China: Thoughts on democracy C. Custer from Chinageeks translated feminist scholar Li Yinhe's recent blog post on “Thoughts on democracy”. |
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05 Oct 09
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China and Taiwan: Uyghur Exile to Sue Taiwanese Government? Angry Chinese blogger comments on the report concerning Uyghur exile, Rebiya Kadeer's plan to sue Taiwanese government over recent accusations that they are connected to the East Turkestan Islamic Movement. |
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02 Oct 09
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China: A birthday bash for the People's Republic DANWEI puts together newspaper front pages for October 1, 2009 to show how the country's media celebrate PRC 60th birthday. |
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