From Rebecca MacKinnon’s RConversation blog (link): Nina Wu, sister of the detained filmmaker and Global Voices contributor Hao Wu has now started a blog on MSN Spaces. It includes a photo gallery of “Haozi” as the family calls him. Even if you don’t know Chinese, leave her a comment in English and let her know […]
Read MoreSince the “Rules on the Administration of Internet News Information Services” came out last September, government control over online content has intensified. Following are three recent examples of how the local authorities have acted on the regulations, and the subsequent reactions from the website editors and supporters. Example 1: The popular “Aegean Sea” (Áà±Áê¥Êµ∑Ôºâwebsite was […]
Read MoreFrom CFO Magazine (link): Karan Bhatia, the deputy U.S. trade representative, urged China in late January to become a “responsible stakeholder” in its trading relationships with the United States. Here in Shanghai, her remarks created a frenzy as people strove in vain to find a translation for the word stakeholder. That’s because in China, the […]
Read MoreFrom EastSouthWestNorth blog (link): The following contains a translation of a conversation between the publisher of United Daily News Wang Shiao-lan and the founder of the Cloud Gate Dance Theater Lin Huai-min. Wang had invited Lin to come in and offer some advice for the newspaper. Cloud Gate Dance Theater is a cultural treasure in […]
Read MoreThe following post is from the China-based Ah-Q Weekly blog (link: ÈòøQÂë®Âàä), translated and links embedded by CDT; the author’s writing mixes using a sarcastic tone and some real heartfelt words: About the NPC and...
Read MoreFrom EastSouthWestNorth blog: In the aftermath of the Freezing Point episode, there has been a rash of overseas Chinese-language reports on the unofficial but powerful group inside the Central Publicity Department (=Central Propaganda Department). If I were paranoid, I would think that there is a concerted campaign to eliminate this group. The following is a […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters (link): More than 8,000 readers a day clicked on Roland Soong’s blog last year and the number keeps rising, but he isn’t doing it for money or fame. “I wouldn’t know what to do with my time otherwise,” the soft spoken author of EastSouthWestNorth said in a recent interview over a Cantonese lunch […]
Read MoreFrom EastSouthWestNorth (link): [in translation] Today, there are more than 100 million Internet users in China. The Chinese Communist government is ambivalent in its attitude towards the Internet, and is showing many signs of awkwardness. On one hand, the lame-footed reforms require high economic growth and the main benefit of the Internet is that it […]
Read MoreBelow is China analyst David Cowhig’s translation of a chapter from Zhou Tianyong’s Breaking Through the Obstacles to Development (Á™ÅÁ†¥Âèë±ïÁöщΩìÂà∂ÊÄßÈöúÁ¢ç). This book was mentioned in Beijing takes on local-government mafias from Asia Times: Over the past several years, peasant incomes have slowly increased but consumption in rural China has been weak. While on the macroeconomic […]
Read MoreFrom The Washington Post: Although just a fraction of all Chinese go online — and most who do play games, download music or gossip with friends — widespread Internet use in the nation’s largest cities and among the educated is changing the way Chinese learn about the world and weakening the Communist Party’s monopoly on […]
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