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From Wired Magazine (link): A light snow is falling outside the windows of Cyrus H. McCormick School in southwest Chicago, but the second graders in Room 203 are not distracted from their lesson. May Cheung, an energetic teacher from Hong Kong, holds a cup to her lips and asks, “Wo he shemma?” (What am I […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times (link): Stunned by the large number of executions carried out each year, Chinese legal experts and lawyers have joined human-rights advocates in attacking the Middle Kingdom’s system of capital punishment as arbitrary and calling for swift changes to judicial process. Authorities have responded with cautious strides toward reforming China’s notorious system of […]
Read MoreFrom Rebecca MacKinnon’s RConversation blog (link): Nina Wu, sister of the detained filmmaker and Global Voices contributor Hao Wu has now started a blog on MSN Spaces. It includes a photo gallery of “Haozi” as the family calls him. Even if you don’t know Chinese, leave her a comment in English and let her know […]
Read MoreEastWestSouthNorth blog has translated an article from Chinese News Net about the salaries of journalists in China (link): According to Ta Kung Pao, the book titled “Reports from the Frontline of Media” published by the Guangming Daily Press, “tomorrow will be even better for the reporters.” As examples, it was reported that a special page […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters, via Financial Express (link): China’s rural bureaucrats have often been cast as corrupt and uncaring villains as discontent flared across the countryside, but a rare new expose by a local official offers a harshly candid defense of their ways. Gu Wenfeng has written “Extraordinary Confessions,” a memoir of his years as a rural […]
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