The “Stainless Steel Mouse” is on the Saturday Profile of New York Times. Jim Yardley told us about the recent condition of Liu Di, eight months after the release. She is “upgraded” to “Titanium Alloy Mouse” now. ……Ms. Liu has resumed writing. Several months ago, she signed an online petition calling for the release of […]
Read MoreFrom Ireland online: “The number of mobile phone users in China, already the world’s biggest market, has risen by nearly 13% over the past six months to 305 million. Mobile phone users sent just under 100 billion text messages in the first half of this year, the Xinhua News Agency said. ” The full article […]
Read MoreYaleGlobal published the following article by Paul Mooney. The article is entitled “Bad Press” Causing Headaches for Beijing. “Journalists and scholars continue to speak out and the government finds it increasingly difficult to be the sole guardian of the truth. Aggressive young journalists continue to dig into a growing array of sensitive news, from the […]
Read MoreAsia Times just had an article called “A blogger’s tale: The Stainless Steel Mouse.” Strictly speaking, Liu Di, the Stainless Steel Mouse, is a online writer, not a blogger. She did not have a weblog and most of her writing appeared in online forums and bulletin boards (BBS). I recently wrote a short essay about […]
Read MoreJust after the last blogpost: Free market generates (some) media freedom, I read Mr. Lu Yuegang’s open letter at Zhang Weiguo’s New Century Net website. Lu Yuegang is the deputy director of the news center in China Youth Daily, and the paper’s principal reporter. Mr. Lu also served as chairman of the China Association for […]
Read MoreAsia times just published an article written by James Borton, on the subject of newly gained press freedoms in China due to the economic reform. “China’s free-market economy is generating unprecedented but not unlimited press freedoms, and there’s momentum. As Beijing embraces a market economy, its proliferating news media too are becoming privatized, more commercial, […]
Read MoreGood news! This is from Reuters today: “Jiang Yanyong, the military doctor who exposed China’s SARS cover-up last year, has been released after seven weeks in custody during which he underwent “study sessions”, family members say. Jiang, 72, who had been taken into custody on June 1 months after calling for a political reassessment of […]
Read MoreThanks to Josh Chin for submitting the following post to CDN: Lu Yuegang, a reporter for the China Youth Daily who writes often about the plight of the country’s have-nots, has just fired off an open letter demanding political reform to the secretary of the Communist Youth League, according to a recent post on Radio […]
Read MoreEastSouthWestNorth has translated a chapter of the book An Investigation into China’s Peasantry, in which Premier Wen Jianbao makes an impromptu visit to a poor Chinese village. The translation (as well as commentary from the translator) is available here.
Read MoreA report in Asia Times argues that the power struggle between Jiang Zemin and Hu Jintao is being played out in cyberspace as well as in the corridors of power. The article cites the existence of two websites, China Petition Network and Media Supervision of China as evidence of Hu’s tolerance for online speech and […]
Read MoreAFP reported today: “China has launched a “people’s war” against pornography on the Internet, giving websites a deadline until September to rid themselves of indecent content, state media said. Officials have so far identified 500 websites across China that carry pornographic pictures and film clips, the China Daily reported. Zhou Yongkang, the minister of […]
Read MoreThe South China Morning Post has published an article about the legal troubles plaguing the authors of An Investigation into China’s Peasantry (中国农民调查）. Read it on AsiaMedia’s site here.
Read More“The shifting fortunes of China’s Internet portals are likely to take a turn for the worse as short-messaging services (SMS) are gradually becoming less of a goldmine. From stricter government regulation to lower charges for voice calls, the hitherto lucrative SMS business is facing multiple dangers in the months ahead, the China Business Weekly newspaper […]
Read More“China’s Internet users send 46 million emails and receive 67 million each day, according to the latest figures provided by CCID Consulting, a think tank for the Ministry of Information Industry. But nearly half of the emails in circulation are junk mail, according to CCID Consulting, also one of the leading domestic IT market research […]
Read MoreVia New York Times: “China’s economy grew at a 9.6 percent pace in the April through June period, a weaker pace than expected, data showed Friday, suggesting that Beijing may be achieving a soft landing for the economy. The number was a slackening from the 9.8 percent pace in the first quarter of the year. […]
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