From the readers’ letters section in Southern Weekly - an exchange between father and daughter. Fashion designer Guo Caijun writes from Shanghai to her father:
People nearly hit me yesterday!
During the May Day holiday, when I was in the waiting room at Qingdao airport, I saw an old lady taking up four seats while many people […]
How seriously did they take security when the Olympic torch relay passed through the streets of Hong Kong on May 2? This seriously:
A poster at the Tianya Forum (today I can only open that page via a proxy. It’s opening fine now) spotted the remarkable similarity between one of the flame attendants in Hong Kong […]
OK, so I lied. There is nothing in the translated report below that says anything about the monk joining the party. You don’t have to be a member, or prospective member, to go to party school. But you cannot comfortably sing “The monk who took the test to go to party school” to tune of […]
The first three pages of this week’s Southern Weekly were devoted to the Carrefour boycott and protests, including protesting primary school students in Hefei. Three of the items are interviews - one or them with the French ambassador to China, headlined “We respect China. We hope China will also respect France.” That’s Ambassador Ladsous in […]
It is a well-known fact that Canadians are evil. However, as the great Bill O’Reilly pointed out, they are just as vulnerable as the French. But is boycotting their products enough? And what if you’re a patriot who has the misfortune to actually be Canadian?
I am most gratified to learn that there […]
The constitution of the Communist Party of China used to include the words: “Despite twists and turns, and relapses in the course of development, the inevitable replacement of capitalism by socialism is an irreversible general trend in the history of social development.”
Here are a few of those twists and turns in pictorial pairs. (Copied from […]
Xinhua:
PARIS, 22 avril (Xinhua) — Les appels au boycott des jeux Olympiques de Beijing sont déplacés et il faut tout faire pour que les JO soient une grande fête, a indiqué le PDG du distributeur français Carrefour José-Luis Duran, lors d’une interview exclusive accordée à l’agence Xinhua.
Xinhua:
PARIS, April 22 (Xinhua) — The chairman of […]
“Ha! Your Western media’s up to its tricks again!” said my political editor with a mixture of mockery and satisfaction, laying particular stress on those two words “Western media.”
“What’s the story?” I asked.
“According your Western media, all foreign students are going to have to get out of Beijing in the summer. According to […]
With all the Tibet furore, I missed the release of the BBC World Service poll (PDF) measuring views on the positive and negative influence of various countries around the world. The BBC leads with the United States. Not surprisingly, I’m more interested in China. But Americans might be disturbed to know that the world thinks […]