Via Amoiist’s Twitter, a comparison of modern Chinese internet policy with Qing dynasty isolationism from IfLonely (a blog whose motto is “If we want to keep living, we must understand the internet a little”). Anyway, here is our translation of their comparison table. Translation A Comparison… Qing Dynasty Closed-Door Policy Modern Internet Censorship Policy...
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…you missed some important stuff. (You can still read our translation of what Chinese people think about Google here, though) A Step Back in Xinjiang First, our poor friends in Xinjiang (who wouldn’t notice if Google left China since they don’t have access to anything beyond a few heavily censored domestic news portals anyway)...
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So Google might be leaving China. Ostensibly, the company will be engaging in talks with the government as to how they can proceed to exist in China, but is no longer to follow Beijing’s censorship rules. Various people have speculated about other reasons for Google’s willingness to abandon what will certainly be the largest...
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By now you’ve probably all heard that Google is planning to walk away from China. While that story — and it is a fascinating one — plays itself out, I’d like to direct your attention to this China Daily column, which I found via Lost Laowai. It is, evidently, an attempt at humor from...
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By popular demand, we continue our translation of this post by Zhao Weilu. Click here for Part 1. In the post, Zhao Weilu is listing thing Chinese internet “patriots” often do that he finds both widespread and annoying. Translation Part 2 Talking about “the motherland/mother says…” Talking about “Five thousand years of civilization…” Saying...
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A lot of people talk a big game on the internet, and Chinese people are no exception. When it comes to the topic of patriotism, especially, the gloves of rhetoric often come off and discussions can quickly descend into a cacophony of name-calling and fallacious assertions. Zhao Weilu, apparently, has had about enough, and...
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Today marks the one-year anniversary of this humble blog, which burst onto the scene with a historical post about the atrocities committed at Unit 731 that virtually no one read. In terms of growth, we’re fast-approaching our 100,000th visitor to the website itself, and have over 800 RSS subscribers according to the last count....
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This blog has, perhaps, earned its name in some small part due to our coverage of racism in China (even though we’re told it doesn’t exist). On that front, I point you in the direction of a few more drops in the bucket. First, a popular Chinese social network game that allows players to...
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The magazine Nanfeng Chuang recently ran a short piece about Ai Weiwei‘s busy 2009. It’s a good summary for those who haven’t been following the exploits of the famed artist/activist, and if you have, it’s interesting to see this kind of stuff written about Ai Weiwei in a real magazine rather than on some...
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The following translation is an excerpt from this article from the Party magazine Qiushi. The whole article is called “The Main Issue for Modern Patriotism: Pushing Forward the Great Undertaking of Socialism with Chinese Characteristics”; we have translated only a small segment of it. It’s not the sort of thing we generally post, but...
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