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From the New Yorker: On the way to Wuhu, I drove through Confucius’ home town. I also passed the Stone Warriors of Nanpi, the Iron Lion of Shijia, and the Alfalfa Land of Jinniu. The village of Jinxiang had posted a big sign, in English, above the highway: “The Best Garlic Is from Jinxiang in […]
Read MoreFrom the Wall Street Journal, via Slashdot: Can China really control the Internet? It has launched a new bid to try. In an effort to crack down on the information access and activities of China’s 100 million Internet users, the Chinese government is imposing new regulations that will attempt to centralize all China-based Web news […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times: Forget China’s “flowering of democracy” – promised direct-level township elections. China must rather learn to rule cities that are mushrooming into gigantic urban concentrations...
Read MoreFrom the Financial Times: For a blind man described by supporters as a “barefoot lawyer” for his work advising villagers fighting brutal population control measures in Shandong province, Chen Guangcheng has attracted the kind of official ire typically reserved for high-profile dissidents. During a two-week detention in a village in the city of Linyi, authorities […]
Read MoreThe current issue of China Information, published by Leiden University, focuses on the Internet in China. Abstracts of the articles are available online, including: “The Sociopolitical Internet in China” by Lokman...
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