The following themes, and the six covered in part two, are not the “most censored” words of 2023 but rather a retrospective of topics that the Party-state deemed unfit for Chinese eyes, selected by our Chinese team. While some...
After being postponed for a year due to the 2022 COVID-19 outbreak and lockdown in nearby Shanghai, the 19th Asian Games are finally taking place in China’s eastern seaboard city of Hangzhou. For the Chinese government, the...
On Saturday, China officially withdrew from its role as the host of the 2023 Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Asian Cup. The quadrennial event, which brings together 24 national soccer teams from across Asia, was originally...
In New Weekly, He Shuqing asks what miseries and quandaries afflict China, and what hope casts a light of positivity on the new year.
The Sydney Morning Herald reports on the not-so-subtle political undertones of the Asian Games’ opening ceremony in Guangzhou: Asian emissaries at the opening ceremony found themselves awkwardly applauding a display of...
Guangzhou, host of the 2010 Asian Games, by Ken Marshall
After Beijing and Shanghai, Guangzhou is set to be the latest Chinese metropolis to get spruced up for a major international gathering. From AP: For the past year, workers have been repainting hundreds of buildings in Guangzhou...
The Asian Games will be held in Guangzhou November 12-17, and local officials are already concerned about improving air quality: The Guangdong provincial environmental protection department has said that the Games are taking...
Ever wonder how organizers get the tens of thousands of participants to coordinate so seamlessly in mass games performances? Here is an interesting and detailed recounting from a former junior high school student who was among...
China Daily’s report says, “Chinese men’s basketballers won the nation’s last gold medal at the Doha Asian Games on Friday, increasing the number of golds won by the Chinese to 165, the second-best record behind 183 at the 1990 Beijing Games.” At the closing ceremony of the 15th Doha Asian Games Chinese artists were singing […]
From China Daily: …Last Wednesday morning, Zhou Mengmeng, member of the Chinese cue sports team, suddenly announced she was withdrawing from the cue sports semifinals. The 19-year-old girl claimed her male teammate Tian Pengfei assaulted her in a hallway Friday night, hitting her in the stomach and causing her to lose her playing spirit, forcing […]
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