Li Xinde, the renowned citizen journalist who lugs his laptop across the country in search of wrongdoing to expose, has added another trophy to his corruption shelf. This one is the biggest so far. Translated by CDT from Yulun...
Read MoreAnother citizen-journalism piece by Li Xinde, translated from his Yulun Jiandu Net by CDT: A family with two daughters (one pictured above) pitted the grandparents against the young couple and resulted in a cop committing murder, in a case which could well become a national scandal. Daughters are second-class children, still, in many of China’s […]
Read MoreAnother classic from citizen journalist Li Xinde, translated by CDT: A late 2005 fire killed 39 patients and staffers at Liaoyuan City (ËæΩÊ∫êÂ∏Ç)’s Central Hospital, but people say the real culprit, the hospital president, is escaping responsibility, reportedly under the cover of some higher-up officials in Liaoning Province. The fire was triggered by sparks after […]
Read MoreA second case since MSN deleted Anti’s blog. Now Baidu is in action. From Radio Free Asia’s Mandarin service and Li Xinde’s Yulun Jiandu Wang (ËàÜËÆ∫ÁõëÁù£ÁΩë), compiled and translated by CDT: Citizen journalist Li Xinde’s corruption-exposing web site was reportedly blocked by Fujian Province’s Xiamen public security authorities, who charged that there was “harmful information” […]
Read MoreAnother classic work of journalism from citizen journalist Li Xinde (Picture showing Wu Bingjing (Âê¥ÁÇ≥Êô∂), right, ushering former President Jiang Zemin during a CPPCC (‰∏≠ÂõΩÊîøÂçè) conference years ago while Wu, now publisher of China Food Daily (‰∏≠ÂõΩÈ£üÂìÅÊä•), was a staff employee of CPPCC. Wu managed to photoshop out his CPPCC employee tag and bragged he […]
Read MoreIt reads like Hong Kong’s “Infernal Affairs (Êó†Èó¥ÈÅì)” movie script, or that of U.S. copycat “The Departed,” but this story may well be true, heart-wrenching and hair-bristling. If time again hammers down its judgment, presumably soon, the lead character, Liaoning Provincial Discipline Committee Party Secretary Wang Weizhong (ËæΩÂÆÅÁúÅÁ∫™Âßî‰π¶ËÆ∞ÁéãÂî؉ºó), may reinforce Li Xinde’s claim to be […]
Read MoreHere comes Li Xinde’ another piece of sexy report (ÁåõÊñô), again about corruption of high officials. This time it’s a like a novel of how a local cadre get away with raping women colleagues and planting charges against one of his underling who advised on one of the women to report (‰∏æÊä•). Wang Hua (ÁéãÂçé), […]
Read MoreIn the picture here, thousands of farmers in Yuxi‘s Hongta District in Yunnan Province became urban citizens after their land was seized for vanity projects. Landless now, these former farmers mostly live on up to 30,000 yuan of land compensation and a meager 10 yuan/month stipend. Most people cannot afford to see a doctor in […]
Read MoreFrom Li Xinde’s blog, translated by CDT: When Dandong authorities decided to take on a key criminal case directed by the Ministry of Public Security and Liaoning Branch, Lu Zhaozhong (Âç¢ÂÖÜÂø†) and Li Maokun (ÊùéËåÇÂù§) were two backbone policemen who participated in the investigation and crackdown on Dandong’s gang group headed by Zhou Jingzhu (Âë®ÊôØÁè†) […]
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Here you are, all alone in Tongxian. How do you stay in the loop?
[Turns to his laptop] Let me show you QQ. [Clicks open QQ] Look at all these chatrooms. Here’s my “gossip” (Â∞èÈÅìxiaodao) chatroom – 159 contacts. Here’s my “in-depth” (shendu) chat room – 198 contacts. In all these chatrooms combined, there are at least 500 journalists. Many are from party newspapers and a lot are young reporters. Of those, at least 200 do investigative reporting. I can’t possibly keep up with them all.
Would it be easy for a foreign reporter to join one of these chatrooms?
Well, you’d have to be invited. Generally, no one would want to invite a foreign journalist. It’s anti-productive. We all have very different backgrounds, but we do share a general consensus. We don’t want to see social upheaval. We rather see our country to proceed toward democracy in orderly way, step by step..
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