Gao Fei

Gao Fei is the pen name of a journalist from China now living and working in the U.S.

Many Free to Have More Than One Child – Jongo News

Following family planning riots and accounts of forced abortions, a spokesperson from the National Population and Family Planning Commission explains China’s one-child policy, downplaying its severity, and announces that single-child parents can have a second child. From Jongo News: Less than 40 percent of the population is restricted by the family planning policy to having […]

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China Censors WoW Skeletons – Kotaku

From Kotaku via CNET News: In a classic example of ‘missing the forest for the trees,’ the Chinese government has banned undead skeletons from World of Warcraft, insisting they be covered up with flesh. The9, the Chinese company that holds the license to operate WoW in China, complied with the order, as well as the […]

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Group Says China Deporting Missionaries – Alexa Olesen

From AP via Washington Post: China has kicked out more than 100 suspected foreign missionaries in a campaign to prevent proselytizing ahead of next year’s Beijing Summer Olympics, a U.S. monitoring group said Tuesday. The government launched “a massive expulsion campaign of foreign Christians” in February dubbed Typhoon No. 5, said the China Aid Association, […]

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Photos: Central Committee Leaders Make a Fashion Statement

Hu Jintao and other high-ranking leaders appear in a sea of white dress shirts, conspicuously sans the usual suits, at a Central Party School meeting on June 25. Xinhua, the government’s official press agency, interprets for its readers the higher message, running a story that both reports and comments on the mass wardrobe shift. CDT […]

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