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04 Jun 09
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Happy China Internet Maintenance Day! 中国网站维护日快乐!
Truly, my new favorite Chinese holiday. The traditional way of celebrating offline involves umbrellas. It’s as if they’ve been watching Simpsons reruns in ZNH. And they’ve probably seen it in the dorm... |
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26 May 09
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CIRC 2009 I’ll be speaking, listening and blogging the 7th Annual Chinese Internet Research Conference in Philadelphia this Wednesday and Thursday (evenings in Beijing) over at the nested domains of http://2009.circ.asia/, which resolves to... |
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26 Mar 09
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Chinese Al Jazeera? No Chance. Reading David Bandurski’s ever keen observations over at China Media Project in “As China shout its line on Tibet, is anybody listening?”, I got struck by deja vu all over again. Three times.
First, there’s the endless drumbeat of... |
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19 Mar 09
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Teacup Feet by otisarchives3
World War I era photo of Chinese woman’s feet from the Otis Historical Archives at the National Museum of Health & Medicine in Washington, D.C. |
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15 Mar 09
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China Strange Maps: Cannibals, Frenchmen & Mu Cleaning out the aggregator. Here are several China-related maps from the Strange Maps blog.
MAPS OF CHINA
Populations of China Compared to Countries
China as an Island (from “The Geopolitics of China” at Investors Insight)
CHINA IN THE... |
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04 Mar 09
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Mapping the Herdict on YouTube With conflicting reports about YouTube access in China tonight, here’s the breakdown from reports to the unfortunately named Herdict (Herd + Verdict, get it? neither did I…) censorship reporting tool:
66 reports from China in the past 3 1/2... |
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04 Mar 09
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Little Nemo Dreams of China (1912) From ComicStripLibrary.org, two Little Nemo strips from consecutive Sundays in December 1912, in which regular characters Flip, Dr. Pill, and The Imp visit China, and Flip attempts to kidnap Emperor Puyi.
Special bonus: Krazy Kat draws a Kue. |
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10 Feb 09
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It’s All Chinese to the Greeks Language Log has created a map of what languages are considered by other languages to represent “incomprehensibility”, as in “it’s Greek to me.” Predominantly referring to European languages, Chinese is hands down the big... |
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08 Feb 09
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Will the Dalai Lama Twitter in Chinese? The Dalai Lama (or his office, at any rate) has opened a Twitter account @OHHDL. Last March, I argued that according to his own stated beliefs the Dalai Lama and his supporters ought to be using technology like Twitter and Fanfou to engage Chinese... |
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08 Feb 09
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From the NYT Archives: CHINAMAN A JOURNALIST NOW From the New York Times, February 8, 1912:
CHINAMAN A JOURNALIST NOW: Anyway, He Has a Degree from the University of Missouri That Says So.
Colombia, Mo., Feb. 7, - Hin Wong, who is said to be the first Chinese to receive a degree in journalism, finished... |
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06 Feb 09
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Chinese Historical Image Collections I’ve assembled a new page of various online resources for Chinese Historical Image Collections, ranging from photographs of events and objects to posters to political cartoons. If there are any sites I’ve missed, drop a comment and I’ll... |
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06 Feb 09
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Chinese Media on Dam Earthquake Link James Fallows wishes he was in China right now to “see first-hand” how people in China are reacting to reports that dam construction may have led to the Sichuan earthquake last year. Here’s a rough translation of the only media report... |
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05 Feb 09
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Bad Tea Leaves A few days ago I mentioned the a quote in a Washington Post article about Charter 08 titled “In China, A Grass-Roots Rebellion”:
“The present situation of maintaining national security and social stability is grave,” Public Security Mini... |
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31 Jan 09
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Chinese & Western Overreactions to Charter 08 The Chinese government has managed to overreact to Charter 08 by making one author an international martyr for free speech by jailing him, requiring Beijing law students to renounce the document in meetings, and perhaps shutting down Chinese blog provider... |
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31 Jan 09
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Planet China, Planet America The other day I was telling a friend that one of the reasons I continue to live in China and find it interesting is that growing up I was a scifi geek. I always loved the idea of visiting other planets, and living abroad is the closest I’ll ever... |
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23 Jan 09
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Open Hand, Clenched Fist? The outlines of the Obama Administration’s China policies are starting to come into focus. First was the mention of China on the new Whitehouse.gov:
Seek New Partnerships in Asia: Obama and Biden will forge a more effective framework in Asia that... |
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21 Jan 09
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Obama’s Janet Jackson Moment on CCTV Since everybody is talking about it, I have a question: if the Chinese state media are supposed to be such masters of message control, how come they didn’t think to use a 10 second delay? Or a full minute? It’s not like there’s much... |
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21 Jan 09
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Bush’s China Legacy Less than 24 hours ago, George W. Bush became a Former President and for a while now there’s been the traditional tenure evaluation and the search for whether anything will positively contribute to his legacy. AIDS in Africa has been bandied around,... |
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12 Jan 09
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One Blood, One Root: Cross-Straits Museumship via China Digital Times, news that the premier museums of China and Taiwan may be getting back together. The National Palace Museum in Taipei is essentially the worlds longest touring exhibition, since its collection is pretty much everything Chiang... |
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12 Jan 09
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Mongolian White Supremacists ESWN links to an article at Ulaan Batar Post about Mongolian Nazis, whose members espouse “The Chinese are our main enemies as they contaminate Mongolian blood by getting married to Mongolian women, and intend to assimilate Mongolians to... |
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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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