From The Observer: The founder of Wikipedia, the online encyclopaedia written by its users, has defied the Chinese government by refusing to bow to censorship of politically sensitive entries. Jimmy Wales, one of the 100 most influential people in the world according to Time magazine, challenged other internet companies, including Google, to justify their claim […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters via the New York Times: China counted on Rebiya Kadeer, a Muslim businesswoman-turned-activist, fading into political irrelevance like most exiled Chinese dissidents when she left for the United States last year. But it may have miscalculated. Kadeer, 58, an ethnic Uighur jailed for more than five years in China for providing state secrets […]
Read MoreFrom Danwei TV: In this episode, called ‘Country Loving’, Su Fei gets sick of the city life and goes to the countryside in search of love. [Click to see the video]
Read MoreSeptember ninth this year is the thirtieth anniversery of Mao Zedong’s death. The following poem was from Gunagzhou based blogger Nick Wong, translated by the Global Voices Online: Thirty years ago when you left, and people were able Under their material and spiritual shackles To breathe a little, and from this here I sit In […]
Read MoreReuters runs a lengthy feature on how air pollution has become a cost consideration in one of the holy cities of global capitalism: Andy Ridehalgh, a British expatriate who has worked as an English teacher for three years in Hong Kong, has had enough of the city’s air pollution. He’ll move with his wife and […]
Read MoreWith Beijing hosting the World Water Congress, the Associated Press provides the latest update to the Songhua River pollution story (via China Environmental News Digest): China’s Songhua River, the site of a massive chemical spill last year that halted water supplies to tens of millions of people, has been hit by more than 130 water […]
Read MoreA man living a simple life besides the river, via fengniao.com
Read MoreFrom Shanghai Daily: Famed comedy filmmaker Feng Xiaogang doesn’t want to be typecast as a director of light fare. So he has made “The Banquet,” a tragedy blockbuster of martial arts, murder, revenge and romance. Reviews, however, are mixed…. The action-packed film, with a budget of 150 million yuan (US$18.75 million), depicts the royal power […]
Read MoreFrom China.org: More than 6 million pirated items had been confiscated by Chinese police by the end of August as part of a 100-day crackdown on piracy, according to the Ministry of Public Security yesterday. Local police had raided more than 32,000 publication markets and distribution businesses and closed down 355 companies engaged in the […]
Read MoreMillions of undergraduates looking for a job in the hot summer, via fengniao.com
Read MoreA woman running away from police Kunming, via fengniao.com
Read MoreThe New York Times Book Review reviewed The Dissident, a novel by Nell Freudenberger, about a Chinese avant-garde artist who moves to Los Angeles: The characters in Nell Freudenberger’s first novel, “The Dissident,” likable and sympathetic though most of them are, are nonetheless fools of various kinds, victims above all of their own willful or […]
Read MoreFrom Washington Post: China has appointed an outspoken career diplomat with extensive knowledge of the United States as its new ambassador to North Korea, the official New China News Agency said. Analysts said the appointment of Liu Xiaoming, 50, suggests officials in Beijing are reassessing their relationship with Pyongyang and trying to find a new […]
Read MoreFrom BBC News: Demonstrators have gathered in Taiwan’s capital for a second day to demand the resignation of President Chen Shui-bian (Èô≥Ê∞¥ÊâÅ) over corruption allegations. Rain fell throughout the day, dashing protesters’ hopes that thousands would turn up again – 90,000 took to the city streets on Saturday. “Ah-Bian, step down!”, they shouted making the […]
Read MoreFrom AP via the New York Times: For 112 years, Underwriters Laboratories Inc. has made its mark on everything from fire doors to night lights, with the familiar “UL” seal of approval assuring consumers a product is safe. But companies in China and elsewhere are making it more difficult for UL to do its job […]
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