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From the New York Times, via Howard French’s Glimpse of the World blog: The question seemed innocuous enough when it appeared in an online poll this month on the popular Chinese Internet portal Netease: Would you like to be Chinese in the next life? It is the answer that proved dangerous. Sixty-four percent of respondents […]
Read MoreFrom PC Advisor, an update on the Shi Tao case: A Chinese journalist jailed in part due to email evidence provided by a Yahoo subsidiary plans to file a lawsuit in the US against the internet company within the next few months. “We’re also trying to line up other victims for a class-action. We’ve been […]
Read MoreOn the Foreign Policy magazine blog, Mike Boyer writes about his recent meeting with Li Wufeng, the Director General of the State Council Information Office: This is Li Wufeng, China’s top Internet cop. A quiet man who...
Read MoreA new book, Mao’s Last Revolution, by Roderick MacFarquhar and Michael Schoenhals, is reviewed by Michael Kenney in the Boston Globe: There is a play on words popular among Beijing intellectuals that transposes the characters for “cultural revolution” — “wenhua da geming” — to create a satiric expression, “da ge wenhua ming,” which translates loosely […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times: Given China’s status as the workshop of the world, and given that coal, more than anything, is powering that workshop, men like Mr. Zhu could be called the coal-truck drivers of the world. They carry the coal that powers the country’s restaurants, office buildings and high-rises, as well as the […]
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