Rebel Pepper: Who’s Afraid of the Big Banned Book?
Cartoonist Rebel Pepper comments on the case of Guangxi Normal University Press social media...
Ningbo
Ministry of Truth: Ningbo Protests
The following example of censorship instructions, issued to the media and/or Internet companies by...
Netizen Voices: CCTV Storm and Drang
While China’s state-run CCTV covered Hurricane Sandy extensively, last week’s protests in...
Drawing the News: Sandy, Sparta and Beyond
This week, online cartoonists satirize CCTV coverage of Hurricane Sandy, “new” invasive security...
Netizen Voices: Foreign Journalists in Ningbo
Most Chinese media kept silent on protests in the coastal city of Ningbo, where a planned...
Ningbo Protests Point to Middle Class Discontent
Over the weekend, residents took to the streets in Ningbo, Zhejiang, to protest plans to expand a paraxylene (PX) plant in their city. Following the protests, which lasted three days and sometimes turned violent, the local...
Sensitive Words: Ningbo Protests and Wen Jiabao
The following search terms are blocked on Sina Weibo (not including the “search for user”...
Protests in Ningbo Continue (Updated)
Residents of Ningbo have been protesting a proposed expansion of a petrochemical plant, citing environmental concerns. From the New York Times [See updates below]: The protesters, who witnesses said numbered in the thousands,...
Sensitive Words: Ningbo Protests and More
As of October 27, the following search terms are blocked on Sina Weibo (not including the “search for user” function): Protests in Ningbo: Thousands in the coastal city are demonstrating against the expansion of a petrochemical...
Weibo Blocks Photo Uploading in Ningbo
Among ongoing protests in Ningbo against the expansion of a petrochemical plant, Sina Weibo users report they are unable to upload photos to the site from local IP addresses. Attempts are met with this message: “20021...
China Searches for the Next Steve Jobs
Evan Osnos writes in the New Yorker about the eastern port city of Ningbo, where local government officials have initiated a stimulus project to develop “an army of Steve Jobs-style leaders,” and the climate for...
Greenpeace Report Links Western Firms to Chinese River Polluters
Greenpeace has released the results of an investigation into water pollution by Chinese textile plants, and is pressuring Western brands such as Nike and Adidas to push for change. From The Guardian: In their one-year...
Child’s Death Sparks Concern
The death of the young son of migrant workers highlights an alarming trend of child abuse in China. Radio Free Asia reports: The death of a two-and-a-half-year-old son of migrant workers at a kindergarten in the eastern Chinese...
Protests in Two Chinese Cities
BBC News reports on recent unrest in China. Approximately 10,000 participants took to the streets in both Hunan and Ningbo to air grievances. The Hong Kong-based Information Centre for Human Rights and Democracy said that, in...
Game Over for a Corruption-Battling Videogame in China – Wall Street Journal
Power unplugged for the once headline-making anti-corruption online game. But why it went offline remains somewhat a mystery. From the Wall Street Journal: Ningbo created an elaborate online role-playing game called Incorruptible Warrior, in which players wield weapons and supernatural powers to kill corrupt government officials, their bikini-clad mistresses and even their families. Players could […]
Anti-corruption Game Launches – Oriental Morning Post
This is not a TV drama or movie poster. It is, you may never guess it, one for an anti-corruption game, offered for free. Sorry, only in Chinese, and no Mac version, at least not yet. Translated from Oriental Morning Post, via sina.com: The game promises to teach you historical knowledge about ancient China while […]
China Completing 22-mile Long Sea Bridge – AP
From Associated Press: A 22-mile long bridge that its builders claim is the world’s longest sea-crossing structure was formally linked-up Tuesday just south of the business hub of Shanghai. The bridge links Shanghai to the industrial city of Ningbo across Hangzhou Bay, cutting the distance between them from about 250 miles to just 50 miles. […]
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Husband giving a hand to his wife in Ningbo, via fengniao.com.
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