In recent days, it seems like any discussion of China and the internet centers around censorship and the possible destabilizing influence presented by the free information exchange afforded by the web. Of course, the internet is used for other things too, but those just lead to more censorship, which leads back to the aforementioned...
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When Li Chunhua was being detained, her toes were bound with wire, she was shackled to an iron chair and then tortured using electrocution! She was going to Beijing to report to the authorities; she was trying to report them for illegally using electricity to torture a citizen! However, in Beijing -- "the best...
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…kind of. Apparently, the game itself isn’t quite ready, but the official site and registration are already online, and not a moment too soon for the game’s Chinese publisher NetEase, who was apparently losing 4.22 million RMB every day the game was offline. Soon, Chinese gamers can get their fix again, although they’ll need...
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Sometimes, it’s good to have a fresh perspective around here. In that spirit, we bring you the first of what we hope will be many guest posts. This one is by Josh Johnston. As you may or may not have heard, an apartment building (luckily still unoccupied and under construction) in the compound “Lotus...
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