After Steven Spielberg withdrew as artistic director for the Beijing 2008 Olympics, it is not surprising to read angry words towards him in the Chinese press, both on- and off-line. But are there other Chinese who think...
Amid protests targeting the “real” China beneath the Olympic fervor, the five Vision Beijing short films made their television debut this week, while Iranian director Majid Majidi received the Bird’s Nest prize...
The New York Times is reporting that, four years after suspending talks with the United States about human rights abuses, China has signaled that it is once again ready to resume its human rights dialogue with the State Dept....
See the aftermath of Steven Spielberg’s Olympic decision, from Time’s China Blog: The Steven Spielberg affair rolls on. He announced in mid-February that –because of China’s lack of action in stopping the...
Sports columnist Sally Jenkins writes on laughs at arguments that the Olympics are apolitical inthe Washington Post: International Olympic Committee President Jacques Rogge spoke yesterday, and, as usual, he didn’t say...
Following Steven Spielberg’s withdrawal from the Olympics over the Darfur issue, a number of other international celebrities involved with planning for the Games have spoken out to defend their roles. From The Guardian:...
Victor Mallet, a Hong Kong based Asia editor of the Financial Times, published following OP-ED on the Financial Times: Every writer on China knows that even mild public criticism of the middle kingdom generates vitriolic and...
Ding Gang, a senior desk editor at People’s Daily published an op-ed in the paper, via Chinaelections.org: A Western film director is so “naive and simple-minded” that he has made an inopportune move on the...
From The Global Voices Online, translated by Bob Chen: Mr. Spielberg might have piqued a large group of people, including not only the authority, but many common Chinese as well. …In 163.com people left over 1500 comments...
Chinese Olympic authorities have finally gone public with their reaction to American mega-director Steven Spielberg’s decision to resign as artistic director for the 2008 Games, and it boils down to this: Too bad, but we...
Spielberg’s decision to withdraw from the Olympics has sparked opinions from bloggers, including these two interesting ones: Richard Spencer blogs for the Telegraph: Only one topic today, which is Steven Spielberg’s...
From Los Angeles Times : In the shadow of the $440-million “bird’s nest” Olympic stadium , migrant workers toil for a few dollars a day. A few miles away, bulldozers destroy a neighborhood where petitioners...
After months of pressure from human rights groups, Steven Spielberg has decided to withdraw from his role organizing the Olympics opening ceremony. From Bloomberg: Director Steven Spielberg cut his ties with the Beijing Olympic...
Steven Spielberg has written to Hu Jintao to appeal for him to help end the genocide in Darfur. From the AFP: In a November 15 letter to Hu released Thursday, Spielberg, who is serving as an artistic advisor for the 2008 Beijing Olympics, said the situation in Darfur had deteriorated since he last wrote him […]
It appears Steven Spielberg, one of the global gurus of spectacle hired to jazz up the 2008 Games, has finally submitted to pressure from Darfur activists and threatened to quit his Olympics post unless China takes a more active role in the Sudan. From ABC News: As celebrities-cum-activists increasingly link the ongoing genocide with China’s […]
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