Beijing-based Tibetan writer/blogger Woeser continues her “Tibet Update.” After her blog was attacked last month, she now publishes her writing on overseas Chinese news site Boxun.com here, here and here: (A profile...
Read MoreAnother score for Internet users and the online press for prompting an apology, sort of, from a local government for cronyism in the promotion of four positions. Translated by CDT from the Beijing News and others. It all started...
Read MoreThese updates of recent events in Tibet and Tibetan areas of China have been posted on Woeser’s blog (Chinese). They have been provided by sources inside China and have not been independently verified. Since her blog being...
Read MoreThese updates of recent events in Tibet and Tibetan areas of China have been posted on Woeser’s blog (Chinese). They have been provided by sources inside China and have not been independently verified. April 27 Press...
Read MoreThese updates of recent events in Tibet and Tibetan areas of China have been posted on Woeser’s blog (Chinese). They have been provided by sources inside China and have not been independently verified. April 2 The 11th...
Read MoreFrom Shanghai Journal: Reading propaganda signs is not only a great way to learn the Chinese language, but also a way to keep up with contemporary issues and concerns. Yesterday (Nov 30) I accompanied Martin Winter on a tour of his local neighborhood, Zuojiazhuang Â∑¶ÂÆ∂Â∫Ñ„ÄÇ Martin works from his home as a translator for a […]
Read MoreFrom Radio Free Asia: Hundreds of police have moved into Dongzhou (‰∏úÊ¥≤) village near the southern Chinese port of Shanwei (ʱïÂ∞æ) after a six-day standoff in which villagers detained eight officials to demand the release of a local activist, Radio Free Asia (RFA) reports. On Nov. 9, Dongzhou police detained villager Chen Qian, described by […]
Read More…I cannot imagine that in fifteen years, I could manage not to ever visit the adoptive mother who reared me from a young age. Or that after becoming the supreme leader of the country, that I would not go in person to sweep the graves of my own father and mother, and instead would have […]
Read MoreFrom Los Angeles Times (link): In a society where caring for parents is no longer a given, the state has stepped in. Shirkers face public shaming, fines, even prison. In Shanghai, the Nanjing East Road Neighborhood Committee recently took to public shaming to ensure that people attend to their aging parents. Anyone who doesn’t visit […]
Read MoreFrom Salon.com: On Friendship Street in the northeast Chinese city of Harbin, hundreds of people carrying white canisters, red buckets, plastic bowls and cooking pots wait for a tanker truck. They have been waiting here in the bitter cold since early morning — though the water delivery isn’t scheduled until 11 a.m. Two police officers […]
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