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Religion is Red…Maybe

In a shocking article in last month’s Shunthead - America’s leading rail enthusiasts journal, Kansas railroad veteran Bob “Chugger” Mancey uncovered evidence that China may have been the birthplace of religion as well as... ...full story at Sinocidal

from Sinocidal on Thu, Sep 13 2007

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20 Sep 08		Ho Chi Minh Animal police beat AP reporter » YouTube videoUS criticizes Vietcong governments' religion record WASHINGTON: The U.S. State Department said Friday that China's repression of religious groups intensified during the last year, citing as evidence Beijing's crackdown on Tibetan Buddhists and its...
23 Aug 08		The Vancouver Sun’s Douglas Todd is a Thief and an Idiot » Shanghai Scrap Imagine this blogger’s delight when his news feed picked up an article entitled “China’s stress on “harmony” keeps tight lid on religion.” After all, a solid 25% of the posts on this blog have concerned Chinese religion...
23 Apr 07		The Uber-Artiste » Black China Hand “I don’t accept the ways of Chinese cartoonists — most of them spend 10 or 20 years just drawing and drawing,” he said. “That’s not what I want to do. I write novels, I sing music.” A cartoon for China’s n...
25 Apr 08		The subtle speed of change in China » Humanaught There’s nothing new about saying “China’s changing”. What isn’t changing? Life changes. There’s nothing new about saying “China’s changing fast”. Every Sinophile for the last 25 years has been saying...
18 Sep 07		China Car Prices Drop Like Flies » The China Expat An article in the Wall Street Journal (”China’s Car-Price Wars Dent Profits”) today talks about how car prices in China are falling rapidly. It’s no surprise, what with the intense competition within China’s borders, and the...
18 Aug 08		Liu Xiang: the end of an Olympic dream » Countdown to Beijing “Well that’s it,” a journalist friend said when he phoned me at the Bird’s Nest a couple of hours after Liu Xiang hobbled out of the Beijing Olympics. “We might as well pack our backs and go home.” We won’t, o...

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