You may have seen our recent post about how netizens at Anti-CNN have been up in arms about the misleading captions of recent New York Times web slideshows. Yesterday, they dove into the text of an actual article, pulling it apart for its’ so-called unfair coverage. Sentence by sentence, Anti-CNN questions the Times’s wording...
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Every now and then we try to lighten the mood around here with a little feature we like to call Art, Dammit. Today’s piece comes to us via ChinaSMACK, it’s a beautiful short animated film supposedly made domestically (although its high quality has made some netizens suspicious). Watch the film before reading our comments...
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The Anti-CNN folks are up in arms again, so much so that their webmaster has written a news story about it in English. This time, the target of their displeasure is the New York Times, who apparently edited photo captions for photos of the riots in Xinjiang. The photos came with captions from...
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The following is a guest post from Elizabeth M. Lynch of China Law and Policy The Hunt for a New China Policy? A Review of the Jon Huntsman Confirmation Hearing Thursday’s Senate confirmation hearing for the next ambassador to China was a virtual love-fest from both sides of the aisle. Democratic senators gushed about...
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The following is a translation of this post by Li Yinhe. Dear Kunming Municipal Party Committee Complaints Secretary, I want to discuss with you the Kunming Elementary School student prostitution case, the Chen Yan prostitution case that followed it, and the father-accommodated prostitution case. According to my analysis of the interviews of reporters, there...
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There is nowhere on earth we can learn about or read about without bias, but even given the assumption that bias exists everywhere, China might be the worst country in the world to attempt to study if you're trying to assess the veracity of anything remotely controversial.
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The changing of "skeletons to corpses, bones to flesh" in The Burning Crusade has been a revision that goes against what many players wish -- this was not one of the revisions originally requested by the evaluation expert, The9 took the initiative in demanding this revision. a personal opinion: everyone...
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This story has been a bit buried by other things, but it bears mentioning even amidst the sterling satire of The Onion: there are now 338,000,000 Chinese internet users. To start with, let’s get a handle on just how large a number that is. If every single person in the United States used the...
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On the humor front — a front we really ought to visit more often, frankly — we would be remiss if we didn’t point you in the direction of The Onion today. For those not in the know, The Onion is a satirical American news website that posts fake (but funny) news stories. Today,...
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Remember near the end of the year in grade school when your teachers got sick of teaching and showed vaguely educational movies? That’s sort of what this is like. We’re too busy to post something real at the moment, so we pass along this thirty-minute video we got from Woeser’s site. It’s not particularly...
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