From the China Beat blog: On Christmas Day 2009, as a momentous year of anniversaries drew to an end, the Beijing authorities announced that Liu Xiaobo had been sentenced to eleven years in jail for ‘inciting subversion’....
From the Southern Metropolis Weekly, 2009-12-25, translated by CDT’s E. Shih. Part I is here. [From the introduction to Part 1: This year, we announce the top ten neologisms in cooperation with “Baidu Encylopedia,” using...
Chinayouren charts the occurrences of the word “China” in various world media outlets in 2009: Within the general rising trend, 2009 has gone back to reasonable levels of media attention, partly because Xinjiang and...
Another top ten list worth reading: China Daily’s list of Top 10 darnedest things officials said in 2009. From the Editor’s Notes: Officials in China are a special breed. They tend to be restrained when facing the...
iZaobao (Paper of Jujube Lovers) is a popular online publication, known for its witty news selection and humorous comments. Founded by Guangzhou-based blogger Peng Yi (彭毅) in 2006, it has produced over 600 issues and has over...
From the Southern Metropolis Weekly, 2009-12-25, translated by CDT’s E. Shih: The “swine” flu that continues taking lives and the “kitty cat” hide-and-seek game of truth; the widely castigated law enforcement by “fishing”;...
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The endless collection of year-end Top Ten lists includes an unexpected one from China Daily: Top 10 Crackdowns 2009: The Chinese government has good reason to keep itself busy all year long. Here are the year’s top ten...
China Media Project discusses and translates sections of a piece in Journalist Monthly which reviews China’s top media stories of 2009: Earlier this month The Journalist Monthly, a magazine published by Shanghai’s Wenhui...
Roland Soong of EastSouthWestNorth translates the top ten media incidents of 2009 from Southern Weekend: 1. World Media Summit showcases Chinese concepts about openness On October 9, 2009, the World Media Summit took place in...
On his New Yorker blog, Evan Osnos parses out ten myths about China that were in circulation this year, including: Chinese Web users have no impact on the government. Fact: In June, China unveiled plans to require all new...
Zhan Bin (詹膑) teaches at the Business School of the Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology and has been blogging since 2003. He wrote the following post on his Roaming and Hunting (游山打猎) blog, translated by CDT’s Paulina...
The New York Times looks at fears of unrest in China as a series of sensitive anniversaries approaches: This year commemorates not only the 50th anniversary of the Tibetan revolt. June brings the 20th anniversary of the...
On openDemocracy, Jeffrey N Wasserstrom writes about boycotts in Chinese history and more recently: In the perspective both of China’s 20th-century history and its last year, the spreading language of boycott offers two...
Winter Swimming in Chongqing city by Yanming.
Data lovers rejoice: Harper’s Magazine recently posted the first 25 years of it’s Index online. The Index compiles unusual statistics and offbeat figures into a snapshot of modern life.
Beijing-based journalist, Tim Johnson, filtered the Sino-statistics from the archive.
With unemployment rising and a number of sensitive political anniversaries approaching, the Chinese government is focusing on preventing social unrest in coming months. Willy Lam reports for Asia Times: For reasons including...
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