Word of the Week: Half-Hearted Suicide
Editor’s Note: The Word of the Week comes from China Digital Space’s Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon, a...
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Unnamed Protesters: Kill All Japanese
Every so often, something cranks up the heat on Chinese hatred for Japan. In the mid-2000s, it was Japanese textbooks glossing over the Nanjing Massacre; the Japanese prime minister’s annual visit to the Yasukuni Shrine never...
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Ministry of Truth: Hush on Maoming Corruption
The following example of censorship instructions, issued to the media and/or Internet companies by...
Read MoreAir China Flight Turns Back After Threat
Chinese state media is reporting that an Air China flight to New York had to return to Beijing following a threat, according to AFP: Air China flight 981 returned to the Beijing Capital International Airport, the report quoted...
Read MoreChina’s Lobbying Game Tested by US, Canada
The world’s second largest economy is shunning confrontational tactics in business dealings with the U.S. and Canada in favor of a newly adopted lobbying strategy, which is being tested by its North American partners. From Paul...
Read MoreThe Most Famous Blogger You’ve Never Heard Of
In the Atlantic, Jeffrey Wasserstrom looks at the work of Han Han and asks why he isn’t a household name in the West, despite being perhaps the world’s most popular blogger: Han Han is a big deal in China — and...
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Playing Games in Dreamworld
Xu Youzhen, head designer of the online game Dreamworld (梦想世界) and chief manager of its parent...
Read MoreTibetan Teenagers Set Themselves on Fire in China
Two more Tibetans have died outside Kirti Monastery in Aba County, Sichuan, after setting themselves on fire in protest again Beijing’s policies in Tibet. Exile Tibetan groups say the deaths mark the 51st self-immolation...
Read MoreChina, India Press Each Other For Greater Access
While Chinese firms have been buying U.S. firms amid the economic slowdown, China and India have pressed each other for greater market access at a meeting between the countries’ trade ministers, Reuters reports: Despite twitchy...
Read MoreAIDS Patients Topple Government Gate
As the AIDS mortality rate in China has dropped, other reports found people with AIDS in China were denied hospital care. The Associated Press reports about 300 patients and their relatives toppled the main gate of a government...
Read MoreChinese Firms Look West Amid Economic Slowdown
From investments in energy, property, entertainment and other sectors, David Pierson and Don Lee of The Los Angeles Times report that Chinese firms have been snapping up U.S. assets at a record pace: With U.S. real estate prices...
Read MoreHexie Farm (蟹农场)：The Note of Harmony
For the latest instalment in his CDT series, cartoonist Crazy Crab of Hexie Farm depicts a naked king performing the “Song of Harmony,” yet at end of the big note is the scythe of the grim reaper. The image of the...
Read MorePussy Riot, Rock and Roll and China
For The International Herald Tribune’s Rendezvous blog, Mark McDonald explores the world of Chinese rock music in light of the Pussy Riot verdict in Russia: The case has some echoes in China, which tolerates little...
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