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When I started writing this, Google.com was blocked in […]
This year is the 60th anniversary of diplomatic ties between China and Russia, at least that’s what Chinese and Russian leaders keep telling us whenever they get together. It’s a load of bollocks. Sixty years ago, the People’s Republic of China established diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union ceased to exist in […]
Looking through Green Dam’s list of Falun Gong related vocabulary is quite a surreal experience. (See Danwei and ESWN). It begins, predictably, with dozens of FLG terms and the special police unit in charge of suppressing the cult. But if you grab the cursor on the right of the screen, scroll down and stop at […]
A long time ago, a friend’s student from Jiangxi complained that you never saw individual clouds in Beijing. The sky was always uniformly blue or, far more often, a single sheet of grey. I’d never noticed this before but it was one of those facts that, once pointed out, is just obviously true. I may […]
With apologies to the BBC, CNN, Sammy Kaye, Beijing’s paramilitary police… well, everyone, really.
The Umbrella Men of Tiananmen @ Yahoo! Video
Somehow I didn’t think Youku would pass this one. The picture quality didn’t work too well on Yahoo. It looks slightly better on Youtube, if you’re not in China (but Youtube’s banned it for copyright […]
Nothing happens in this video. It’s just a candle tonight in Beijing.
Of memory and forgetting
Drive east from Algiers and eventually the road will carry you up through the mountains and valleys of Kabylie. From the city of Tizi Ouzou, continue to climb into the villages where children stop and stare at a rare Arab visitor, just as Chinese villagers stare at Europeans they have seen in […]
Double Happiness: women dance on election day in Pyongyang (Xinhua photo)
Sunday was a day of extraordinary happiness for North Korean women. Not only was it International Women’s Day, it was also election day so they could exercise their right to cast their compulsory vote in favor of a single candidate to represent them in the […]
It’s nearly a week since the Oscars, but my computer’s been at the shop for an upgrade. So, anyway, how did CCTV-6 translate the first main sentence of Sean Penn’s acceptance speech?
Given the many failings of my translations on this blog, I need to be careful about throwing too many stones inside my glass house. […]
Sunday, February 15, 2009
(Update: The word is that the attackers have now been caught. Some details known, others not yet clear.
Update 2: One of them was indeed caught and will now stand trial.)
Big-name Chinese blogger Xu Lai, better known as ProState in Flames, was stabbed at the One Way Street bookshop in the Wanda Plaza, Chaoyang district, Beijing, […]