The South China Morning Post ran a profile of Southern Metropolis News editor Cheng Yizhong, who just spent his 39th birthday in prison: “In an interview late last year with a men’s magazine, Southern Metropolis Daily editor-in-chief Cheng Yi- zhong said his favourite movies were prison dramas. He cited The Shawshank Redemption – a story […]
Read More“China has shut down more than 8,600 unlicensed Internet cafes across the country since February when it launched a nationwide check on all Internet cafes, according to Minister of Culture Sun Jiazheng. These cafes were...
Read More“About 80 gays and lesbians from China, Hong Kong and Taiwan had taken four days off work and spent hundreds of dollars to attend the first Tongzhi Conference held in Hong Kong since 1999. The conference, which concludes tonight at a remote seaside resort cradled by lush tropical hills about an hour northeast of downtown […]
Read MoreThis article is from Epoch Times. It reports that “The Shanghai Cultural Bureau will install 1,325 monitoring devices at local Internet cafés to keep children from opening web pages that contain illegal information....
Read MoreRead this article on China Daily today. It begins: “Sewage allegedly discharged by local plants have killed huge amounts of aquatic life- an estimated 60,000 kilograms of fish – in the Wenjiang section of the Tuojiang River in Zizhong County in Southwest China’s Sichuan Province, local environmental officials said. ”
Read MoreIn today’s International Herald Tribune, Bruce Gilley writes in an op-ed: “The Bush administration should be commended for bringing the cause of democracy back into focus in its international relations in general and its China policy in particular. But it cannot lead where others will not follow. And it is the failure of the domestic […]
Read MoreThe South China Morning Post reports that the deadline has passed for charges to be filed against Southern Metropolis News editor Cheng Yizhong – indicating that he may be treated with leniency. The story also quotes “reports” that high level Guangdong officials may have intervened on his behalf. But Cheng’s lawyer says officials have six […]
Read MoreLast Saturday, Financial Times ran a hugely entertaining article called “Message in a bottle.” (The website requires registration! 🙁 ) The author is Tim Clissold. As professor Rudolf Wagner puts it: it is an “exceedingly interesting extensive insider article on the establishment, quandaries, and eventual demise of a joint venture with a Peking beer brewer. […]
Read MoreA rough translation of Jiao Guobiao’s essay about the Propaganda Department is now available here on the ZonaEuropa site. Thanks to the person at that site who did the translation and sent us the link. Jiao Guobiao, a journalism professor at Beijing University„ÄÇ (Doug Kanter/ Polaris for The New York Times)
Read More“Intelligent voice technology promises a wonderful prospect on the Chinese market in the coming five years and expects to play an important role in the 2008 Olympics in Beijing and the 2010 World Expo in Shanghai. ” Click here to read the full article on eastday.com.
Read MoreJonathan Zittrain talked about this at the China’s Digital Future conference on Friday. Here is CNET’s new article on this ironical subject. Although, there is no need to be too ironical about this. All we need is common sense of proportion to see that U.S. blunder in this story is not really comparable with the […]
Read MoreJiao Guobiao’s essay condemning the Propaganda Bureau is finally getting some international attention (although Wang Feng reported on it here two weeks ago). In addition to the NYT article posted below, RFA has also reported on Jiao’s essay. I have not yet seen an English translation of his essay, which is being widely distributed online, […]
Read MoreHere is The New York Times report on an old story of China’s censorship. “But some see worrying signs that the leadership remains instinctively hostile to political discussion and more independent news media. Scholars say they now suspect that Mr. Hu is not as forward-looking as they had once hoped, and at any rate he […]
Read MoreUnder the guidance of Randy Kluver, of Nanyang Technological University, this panel revealed that the effect of the net on Chinese political culture is terribly similar to that in the United States. There’s a digital divide — Bu Wei, of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, said 28 percent of people in Beijing were net […]
Read MorePanel: John Gage, Sun Microsystems Izumi Aizu, International University of Japan Alex Zixiang Tan, Syracuse University Andrew McLaughlin, Google John Gage, Sun Microsystems Open Source or Closed? Mr. Gage said innovation in China is stifled by the requirement that people must get prior permission from the government to play with computer code — the same […]
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