Word of the Week: Iliopsoas
The Word of the Week comes from the Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon, a glossary of terms created by...
Beijing Olympics 2008
City Government Backs Hutong Revival
Oliver Wainwright reports for the The Guardian that Beijing Design Week architects have carried...
China’s Resistance Art Beyond Ai Weiwei
Oiwan Lam at Global Voices Online looks at Chinese art-activist Li Ning and his art group, the Body Art Guerrilla Group, Made-in-J Town. Their work examines forced demolition in Shandong, opposes fees for selecting schools, and...
Censorship Vault: Darfur, the Beijing Olympics, and More
In partnership with the China Copyright and Media blog, CDT is adding the “Beijing Internet...
Censorship Vault: Guiding Protests Then and Now
Editor’s Note: From the Censorship Vault features previously untranslated censorship instructions...
Beijing’s Olympic Ruins
Four years later, most of the sports facilities built for the 2008 Beijing Olympics have remained untouched since the extravagant closing ceremony. The Water Cube, the main stadium for aquatics during the Olympics, is now...
Word of the Week: Love the Future
Editor’s Note: The Word of the Week comes from China Digital Space’s Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon, a...
Life On The Outside
On Monday, The New Yorker’s Evan Osnos linked back to a 2007 article in the magazine by Jianying Zha. This described her brother’s nine-year detention for subversion and, in Osnos’ words, “remains the...
After the Summer Olympics, Empty Shells in Beijing
A year and a half after the Olympics in Beijing, the impressive structures built for the event are left without a purpose. From the New York Times: In 2008, the Chinese built a ball field — boy, what a ball field — known...
China Relishes Olympics Legacy
On the one year anniversary of the opening of the Olympics in Beijing, journalists are reflecting on the legacy of the Games for Beijing and for China. From the Christian Science Monitor: One year after Beijing hosted the Summer...
Michael Meyer: One World, One Dream One Year Later
“By many measures the 2008 Olympics were a smashing success, but for the people of Beijing, the Games have left a mixed legacy” From CNN.com: Beijing’s Olympic legacy doesn’t compare with that of Seoul,...
Detained Activist’s Kafkaesque Nightmare
Der Spiegel revisits the case of legal activist Ji Sizun, who was detained during the Olympics a year ago after applying to stage a protest in the government-established “protest parks,” and the lawyer, Liu, who is...
Detentions Illustrate Limits of Free Speech in China
In the run-up to the Olympic Games in Beijing a year ago, there was much talk that playing host to the Games would force China to become more open and respectful of human rights, especially freedom of expression. Yet, as the New...
Study: Beijing’s Air Worse Than At Past Olympics
From AP: Beijing’s notoriously dirty air was cleaner during last summer’s Olympic games, but pollution levels were still much worse than at recent Olympics, despite a massive Chinese cleanup campaign, a new report...
Beijing Claims Profit On Olympic Hosting
From AP: Beijing Olympic organizers say they made a profit out of hosting last year’s Summer Games. According to figures released Friday by the government audit bureau, $2.8 billion was spent on organizing and staging the...
Beijing’s Olympic Building Boom Becomes a Bust
From the LA Times: The Beijing Municipal Bureau of Statistics reported this month that housing sales in the city dropped 40% last year. Chinese economists have predicted that housing prices will drop 15% to 20% in Beijing this...
Susan Brownell: Was There a Master Plan to Use the Olympic Games to Promote a Positive Image of China to the World ?
The China Beat has reprinted a version of a paper on the 2008 Beijing Olympics and China’s image, presented at a recent conference at the University of Southern California in January 2009. Below is an excerpt: There was a...
Documentary: World’s Biggest Airport – Beijing Capital International Airport
Discovery Channel’s documentary “Beijing Airport” tells the story of why and how China vowed to build the world’s biggest airport in Beijing, posted by Chinasuperpower via Youtube. Below is a description...
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