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06 Jan 09
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Liu Jianhua, Sculptor of the Economic Crisis Artist Liu Jianhua’s (刘建华) latest gallery showing in Italy at Galleria Continua. “Unreal Scene” (2008) is a model of Shanghai made out of poker chips and dice. Photo by Cinghialino, Flickr Creative Commons. More from this and pr... |
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06 Jan 09
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‘To Collapse or Not To Collapse’ Is Not The Question Rebecca Mackinnon has started a public wiki for predictions about China in ‘09. The first entry is a post by Daniel Drezner whose blog just migrated to Foreign Policy. Drezner cites the recent Charter ‘08 manifesto signed by hundreds of... |
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01 Dec 08
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Let 1000 Peasant Robots Bloom via io9, the imaginative robotic creations of Wu Yulu (吴玉禄):
Rural Robots by Wu Yulu from microwavefest on Vimeo.
Wu Yulu was invited to participate in the Microwave International New Media Arts Festival in Hong Kong, which produced this short vid... |
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30 Nov 08
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Widespread Myopia and the Chinese Language At left: eye massage goggles based on Chinese medicine jingluo principles.
From the Shanghaiist, news of a new batch of eye massage exercises for Chinese students to help combat China’s myopia epidemic. Eye massage exercises in China have good... |
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30 Nov 08
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A Tale of Two Stampedes via Blood & Treasure:
An employee at Wal-Mart was killed yesterday when “out-of-control” shoppers broke down the doors at a sale at the discount giant’s store in Long Island, New York.
Other workers were trampled as they tried to... |
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27 Nov 08
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Golden Oldies of U.S. Propaganda: Red Chinese Battle Plan Here’s a classic from the old days. Red Chinese Battle Plan was a full throated 1964 U.S. Navy propaganda film about China becoming global Communism’s “Second Rome” after Khrushchev said bad things about Uncle Joe and got sociable... |
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27 Nov 08
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Before Global Voices & The Internet, There was PLATO There’s an article in Wired about Microsoft’s Chief Software Officer Ray Ozzie, who in the 70s was part of the PLATO project, which inspired him to create Lotus Notes. From Wikipedia: “PLATO was the first (circa 1960, on ILLIAC I)... |
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25 Nov 08
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Wordpress Plugin To Subvert Chinese Keyword Blocks Last year, Ryan McLaughlin at DaoByDesign came up with a plugin called Censortive, which replaces sensitive keywords in Wordpress blog posts with image equivalents, thereby avoiding keyword blocks like those mentioned in the last post. At the time,... |
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25 Nov 08
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Is the Net Nanny’s Aim Improving? The People’s Security Bureau in Shenzhen has told blogger Zuola couldn’t leave the country to attend the Deutsche Welle Blog Competition (where he would be a judge) because he’s a “may threaten state security”... |
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23 Nov 08
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Bruce Lee Ad Better Than Bruce Lee TV Series I recently had the opportunity, while bored in a hotel, to watch some of The Legend of Bruce Lee, a 50 part series that cost around 50 million RMB (6.4 million dollars).
It’s terrible. It has some redeeming qualities. I like the fact that despite... |
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17 Nov 08
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The Cyber Gossip War on China Via the Dark Visitor, another headline blaring that Chinese hackers are on the verge of undermining all of Western civilization: EXCLUSIVE: Cyber-Hackers Break Into IMF Computer System. Anonymous IMF sources tell Fox reporter Richard Behar that vital... |
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16 Nov 08
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James Bond, Hero of Cochabamba I saw the new James Bond movie in China, where it’s been released a week or so earlier than the United States. The plot centers around a organization called Quantum (think SPECTRE of the old Bond) that engineers a military coup d’etat with CIA... |
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10 Nov 08
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Checkin’ IDs in China, by Net or Mobile Via China Digital Times, Xinhua reports “China’s Public Security Ministry on Friday opened a website for citizens to verify individual identity cards. Any ID card can be verified for a 5 yuan (73 U.S. cents) online payment at the sit... |
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09 Nov 08
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China’s Human Bees There’s a new book about honeybee Colony Collapse Disorder, the unexplained disappearance of worker bees leading to the destruction of bee colonies throughout the world. A recent interview with the author of Fruitless Fall: The Collapse of the Honey... |
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05 Nov 08
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In Overcoming Our Pasts, a Bridge On November 4, 2008, across the United States, people took to the streets in celebration when a winner was announced:
On July 13, 2001, across China, people took to the streets in celebration when a winner was announced:
In 1861, the United States began... |
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04 Nov 08
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KFC, A to Z ChinaSMACK has a post on shanzhai 山寨 brands. The first was this picture:
Which reminded me I took this photo a year ago. When I took it, I thought to myself “I’ll bet there’s a KFC knockoff for every letter of the alphabetR... |
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02 Nov 08
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Your Mutant Palm Election Guide Actually, more like a brief post of self congratulations. Encyclopedian Jess Nevins got to the issue of spiritual warfare a year before Sarah Palin made it a household name. I’ll see his spiritual warfare, and I’ll raise him a I had Pastor... |
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27 Oct 08
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China in Soviet Shorthand Back in May, in the aftermath of the Sichuan earthquake, a few China correspondents started talking about the possibility of a “Chinese Glasnost”. First was Philip Taubman, veteran of the New York Times Moscow bureau, warning what happened... |
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26 Oct 08
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Caligula Knows the Mandate of Heaven From the first chapter of Caligula for President: |
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26 Oct 08
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America’s Bare Branches? I’ve previously written about my doubts about the “bare branches” theory, which argues that a growing surplus of bachelors in China are a threat to social stability. The study by Andrea Den Boer and Valerie Hudson argued:
China has a... |
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21 Oct 08
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The New Terrorists, and Some Unnamed Countries In a press conference today, the Ministry of Public Security released its second list of most wanted terrorists for plotting attacks on the Olympics and generally working towards separatism in “restive”* Xinjiang. The first list was released... |
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07 Oct 08
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Let’s Play: Republicans, or BOCOG? Two quotes. Which one is from the Beijing Olympics, and which is from a Sarah Palin rally? Number 1:
When reporters tried to leave the designated press area and head toward the bleachers where the crowd was seated, an escort would dart out of nowhere and... |
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04 Oct 08
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Important, Pay Attention YouTube tells me this video is not available in China. WTF? Proxy not required here.
This blog has been dormant for a good bit as I ran around the planet and started some new things. Hopefully some time soon I’ll get around here more regularly and... |
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24 Jul 08
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For The Record, WSJ, I Had It First Let the Internet Archive be my witness that I scooped the Olympic Security English story 2 years ago. Let it also be my witness that I’ve had this book on my shelf for two years and was too dumb to shop a story on it for a quick buck. I would like... |
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24 Jul 08
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Radovan Karadžić, The Balkans & China Radovan Karadžić has been arrested in Belgrade, where he has been hiding right under everyones noses under an assumed identity of a mystic healer. On the official Serbian/English website of his alter ego, Dr. Dragan Dabic, he claims he once “settl... |
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18 Jul 08
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A Spider Web of Fox Armpits Steals U.S. Military’s Secret Sand The Jamestown Foundation has a China Brief titled “The Evolution of Espionage: Beijing’s Red Spider Web”, another go at the diabolical mechanations of Fu Manchu’s vast network of spies. Jamestown adds a caveat to this brief noting:... |
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15 Jul 08
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China’s 3 A.M. Olympic Phone Call The New York Times has a rather breathless and exciting account of how a “Phone Call From China Transformed ‘84 Olympic Games”. It relates the tale of how the head of the Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee believes China... |
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12 Jun 08
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Blogging From CIRC I’m @ Hong Kong University for the China Internet Research Conference, and I’ll be liveblogging about the panels on the official blog along with John Kennedy, Oiwan Lam and others. I’ll also be on Twitter, if it behaves, along with all... |
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03 Jun 08
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The Censors Can Suck It From Lian Yue’s Blog:
From Wang Xiaoshan’s:
Regular blogging will commence soon. |
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12 May 08
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US Deploys Own Grains of Sand Strategy From the Washington Post, April 3rd, after the verdict in the Chi Mak espionage trial:
“The Chinese government, in an enterprise that one senior official likened to an “intellectual vacuum cleaner,” has deployed a diverse network of... |
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12 May 08
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The Final Countdown! It’s 100 days to the 2008 Beijing Olympics! That can only mean one thing! No, not deteriorating reporting conditions. No, not a countdown ceremony in Nepal, though thats some serious unintentional irony right there. No, not whatever else is being... |
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12 May 08
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It Ain’t Easy Being Chinese The idea that the Chinese people, as a whole, are engaged in struggle, overcoming shame, or that every individual is responsible for the fate of the nation goes back before the Communist era. Since 1949, these ideas have been intensified, but it... |
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12 May 08
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Back to Our Motherland via Hecaitou and Lian Yue, Backtoourmotherland.com.
The website calls for Chinese Canadians to renounce their citizenship and provides links on how to do so. It also argues that the Canadian citizenship pledge is unpatriotic for Chinese since one swears... |
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12 May 08
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Brainwashing in China, Then and Now A word that seems to be cropping quite a bit lately from both Chinese and non-Chinese quarters has been “brainwashing”. The Merriam Webster and American Heritage dictionaries give the etymology xi nao (洗脑), the English word first appearin... |
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12 May 08
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Guerrilla Broadcasts on the Shanghai Metro Rumor floating around on the BBSes, copied from the Ming Pao Daily in Hong Kong (google... |
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12 May 08
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Scheer Chutzpah? Lawyer Peter Scheer has a beef with the Great Firewall in the International Herald Tribune, as well as taking a swipe at foreign law firms practicing in China:
At 225 million users and still growing at double-digit rates, China’s Internet is a... |
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12 May 08
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Chinese Content Filters Block Air Passages, 1.3 Billion Suffocating China has expanded its Internet filtering system to the nation’s atmosphere, leaving millions gasping for breath. The new system, called the “Golden Fan Project”, utilizes a complex system of fans, vents and tubes to block any... |
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12 May 08
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…And the Same Goes For Us Via Imagethief, Xinjiang scholar James Millward has some PR advice for the PRC. As Imagethief points out, good PR is 90% commonsense, which why I feel that for Professor Millward’s six points for China, there are six corollaries for the rest of the... |
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12 May 08
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Avaaz, Mateys! Thar She Blows It! It seems that the relatively new Avaaz.org has decided to launch an ad campaign for a China-Tibet dialogue. Avaaz bills itself as:
a new global web movement with a simple democratic mission: to close the gap between the world we have, and the world most... |
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