It's amazing how fast China blogs grow old. ChinaGeeks is over half a year old now, and still the Western media hasn't sat us down to have "the talk" about where quotations come from. Maybe it's time they did.
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It's amazing how fast China blogs grow old. ChinaGeeks is over half a year old now, and still the Western media hasn't sat us down to have "the talk" about where quotations come from. Maybe it's time they did.
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Via Zhaomu’s blog, an account of chengguan attacking and beating traffic police in Hankou: Translation “That group of people was very fierce, after beating the traffic police, they said they were going to kill me!” a PSB officer told a reporter yesterday afternoon remembering the event, he still feels afraid. He said it...
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Recently, Zhao Shilong posted a long, thoroughly-researched piece on the potential of the Three Gorges Dam to cause earthquakes. It’s a bit long and technical for me to translate, so here’s a summary. (Do bear in mind that my Chinese is far from perfect and my knowledge of geology is extremely limited, so it’s...
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A recent ChinaHush post got us thinking about the place of women in Chinese society. Plenty has been said, on this site and elsewhere, about the question, but it’s one we keep coming back to because no one has answered it yet. The gender imbalance caused by the One Child Policy in combination with...
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The Karmapa Lama is “the only senior Buddhist leader recognized by Beijing, the Tibetans and India.” He’s also a 24 year old who likes hip-hop and violent video games. Recently, he gave an interview in the Times of India. It’s an interesting reflection of the ways Buddhism continues to adapt to the times. He...
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Some of you may know that Ai Weiwei was on the wrong end of some fists a month ago when he went to attempt to testify on Tan Zuoren’s behalf in the latter’s trial (to no avail). You may also know that he had brain surgery yesterday for a cerebral hemorrhage, possibly due to...
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The following is a translation of a part of this post from Ai Weiwei’s blog. It’s a transcript of a phone conversation between him and a PSB officer, and we think it’s interesting in several ways. The analysis, though, we leave up to you. Backstory On the afternoon of Sept 9th, Liu Yanping saw...
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There has been some discussion about Thoman Friedman’s most recent op-ed, “Our One-Party Democracy“. In it, he compares China to the US favorably, arguing that China’s autocratic system is more efficient and responsive: There is only one thing worse than one-party autocracy, and that is one-party democracy, which is what we have in America...
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Maybe you’ve heard. China’s got a big birthday party coming up, and they’re definitely going to be celebrating, with everything from soldiers to tanks to…I’m sure there will be other things, too. So what are your thoughts on the anniversary celebrations? How will these sixty years be viewed in the future? Net gain? Net...
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Apologies Forthcoming is not perfect, but parts of it are. Florid praise draped over the back cover as it is, I think I shall put it more simply: it is a book you should read. Eberlein has done what we so often forget to do, she has put people into history and let them...
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