virtualreview

china: news and opinion

Emperor: clothes; USA: history; South China Morning Post: ???

It has been three days since the sensational title “Authorities order bars not to serve black people” written by Tom Miller showed up in the supposedly reputable South China Morning Post. I used the phrase “supposedly reputable”... ...full story at Blogging For China

from Blogging For China on Mon, Jul 21 2008

see also:

15 Sep 08 visit 1989年 - 南華早報  »  YouTube video南華早報 South China Morning Post
19 Jul 08 visit Beijing Blacklisting Blacks?  »  Humanaught So, story goes - sometime yesterday afternoon both Shanghaiist and Beijing Boyce reported on a South China Morning Post article by Tom Miller entitled “Authorities order bars not to serve black people”. Mrs. Granite Studio (YJ), Danwei,...
18 Jul 08 visit No blacks or Mongolians for bars, or no sources for SCMP?  »  Danwei From Beijing Boyce: Tom Miller of the South China Morning Post reported today that bars in central Beijing have been instructed to not serve blacks or Mongolians during the Olympics: Beijing authorities are secretly planning to ban black people and...
20 Jun 08 visit Saying ‘Hello’ to ‘Ni Hao’  »  China Journal In a changing China, it’s the little words that count. The shift of one short and sweet phrase, “ni hao,” from a formal greeting into an all-purpose equivalent of “hi” or “hey” is a case in point. Once reserved...
15 Mar 07 visit Japan: Where are the Japanese comfort women?  »  Global Voices Ampontan translates a post written by Kiyotani in response to the recent debate about Abe’s claim that there was “no evidence” that the recruitment of “comfort women” had been “forcible in the narrow sense of the...
21 Aug 08 visit More than just adding oil  »  CN Reviews “Add fuel?”  “Let’s go?”  “Olé! Olé! Olé?” “Come on?”   One of the quirkier news stories that has come out of the Beijing Olympics is how to translate the ubiquitous Chinese cheer 加油 (jiāyó...

« Today's Stories