The Discriminatory Complex Beneath Our Consciousness
A Chinese lawyer and journalist with online name William Schue wrote following post on his “Achilles’ Heel” blog: In another mysterious coincidence, “6.28” is double the number of...
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Netizens’ Anger and Wit Against Online Censorship
Over the past two weeks, information and comments about the Weng’an riot have dominated Chinese chatrooms and blogosphere. The Xinhua news agency quickly put out its official version of the story, and while reporters from...
Read MoreCDT Interview Series: Chinese Journalists Talk About the Olympics, Tibet, and Cross-Cultural Understanding (1)
[Editor’s Note: Since March, a series of events including unrest in Lhasa and protests following the Olympic torch relay, have brought to the surface a clash between nationalist elements of the Chinese public and...
Read MoreLiang Jing: China’s Plight Seen From the Weng’an Incident
Overseas political commentator Liang Jing wrote folliwing essay, translated by David Kelly: On the afternoon of June 28, a serious mass disturbance took place in Weng’an County, Guizhou Province. Tens of thousands of...
Read MoreHow Did the Chinese Public Push Officials to Admit Fault in Tigergate?
Thirteen Chinese government officials were sacked earlier this week in connection with a set of fabricated photos, which they had claimed to be proof of a highly endangered tiger. The punishment came nine months after members of...
Read MoreTibet Talks Conclude With Little Progress
From the Washington Post: Envoys for the Dalai Lama ended more than two days of talks with Chinese government officials Thursday with no immediate reports of substantive progress on easing tensions in Tibet, something the United...
Read MorePressure on the Press
Jonathan Ansfield reports in the Newsweek: They had one amateur video, six peasants’ corpses and more than 10 eyewitnesses to the siege a day before. But on June 12, after Beijing News journalists were first at the scene...
Read MoreChinese Bloggers Scale The ‘Great Firewall’ In Riot’s Aftermath
From Wall Street Journal: To slip past Internet censors squashing reports of a weekend riot in China’s Guizhou province, some bloggers have started writing backward. Some 30,000 rioters set fire to government buildings...
Read MoreWant Access? Go Easy on China
Foreign scholars of China are learning their are limits to their access if their research doesn’t fit the Chinese government agenda. From The National: Foreign scholars are finding the China field an increasingly dangerous...
Read MoreChina Sharply Hikes Energy Prices
From AFP: China sharply raised domestic energy prices across the board on Friday, as authorities shifted policy in the face of complaints that price controls were causing turmoil on global oil markets. The move immediately sent...
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