Foreign affairs columnist Georgie Anne Geyer wrote an Op/Ed piece on China’s environmental crisis. In the article she wrote: “…this is an enterprising area. In the town center nearby is the brand-new First Aircraft Institute, with first-class apartments for workers and students in the aircraft industry. A large new hotel that rivals any in the […]
Read MoreVia CNEWS: AP reported here that China’s online population is still expanding drastically. “China’s Internet population grew 28 percent over the past year to 87 million, while use of broadband and online commerce is soaring, according to a government report. China now has 31 million subscribers to broadband high-speed lines, an increase of 79 percent […]
Read MoreThis article about Lu Yuegang’s open letter is from Financial Times. Thanks to Peking Duck for blogging it. From Financial Times: “An open letter by Lu Yuegang, veteran reporter at the China Youth Daily, to a senior cadre at its parent Communist party Youth League has drawn widespread attention recently after being posted on the […]
Read MoreThe full translation of Lu Yaogang’s open letter (15,000 characters) is here. While the translator, Eswn modestly claim: “in view of the length of the article, my translation here was done quickly and cannot be considered completely accurate (especially the proper names of the individuals and their job titles).” on his/her blog: EastSouthWestNorth, I want […]
Read MoreThanks to David Cowhig for his excellent translation of some parts of the Lu Yuegang’s open letter. David follows the Internet in China and here is his translation of the beginning part of the Lu’s letter: Your Excellency Zhao Yong: We need to have a straightforward discussion. The talk you gave on the afternoon of […]
Read MoreThe “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 […]
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