They sure know how to stir up trouble over at the Economic Observer. Home to Wang Keqin, the investigative reporter who has uncovered a wide variety of scandals (most recently, the tainted vaccines in Shaanxi), police in Zhejiang recently announced they're seeking another Economic Observer reporter (Qiu Ziming) who is accused of...
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A very amateur informal review of Han Han's magazine, 《独唱团》。
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Li Yinhe wonders what China thinks is so terrible about the human body?
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I take issue with Victor Mair's assertion that Chinese people forgetting how to hand-write the occasional character and having to check how to write it via their phones is "a big problem".
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Mindy Zhang translates an email from a professor detailing his opinions on the "Tibet issue".
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The parents of children who were victims of tainted vaccines continued their attempts to get an explanation out of the Ministry of Health. Instead, they were brutally beaten and are still being held in a police station and denied medical treatment.
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If you’re wondering why Han Han’s blog hasn’t updated in nearly a month, here’s the probable reason. His literary magazine, 《独唱团》was recently released. You may not be aware of this because, according to this report quoted in the China Digital Times1, the media is not allowed to report on it or interview people about...
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Sohu has stepped up their blog policing measures significantly, according to lawyer Liu Xiaoyuan, whose blog has been deleted multiple times in the past several days.
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The Chinese government has taken steps to hobble domestic microblogging.
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“I have no faith in the Party,” Ms. Liu told me. “I don’t believe in anything in the history textbooks. It’s all lies.” This would hardly be remarkable, except that Ms. Liu is herself a Party member, and has been for several years.
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