UPDATE: Sadly, it seems like the party is already over. That makes the “installing new software” theory seem like the most likely contender. Again, we can’t confirm this, and it seems as though it MUST be temporary, but there are reports that the internet, or at least large parts of it that have been...
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Danwei reports (via GVO) that Hecaitou’s two blogs have been blocked by the net nanny, but our (very unoffical) tests indicated it was accessible in Harbin, China, as of 1:20 PM Sunday, January 3rd (Beijing time). Can those of you in China confirm or deny that the sites are still accessible? Herdict, as of...
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2009 retrospectives have been done to death, as have decade retrospectives (even though the decade isn’t over until 2011). It’s been a pretty depressing decade anyway, so let’s just steam on ahead and talk about what’s coming. Break out your tea leaves, and peel your eyes for portents of the China to come. What...
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Westerners worldwide will wake up tomorrow with gifts under their Christmas trees. Liu Xia will wake up tomorrow -- for her, December 26th -- with the knowledge that Christmas brought her an empty home for the next eleven years.
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It’s the time of year for lights, trees, bells, and creepy columns about how Christmas presents excellent opportunities for proselytizing. Even in China they’re celebrating, and the while the Chinese government may have been a bit busy fending off American ‘conspiracies’ sabotaging global efforts to combat climate change and dooming small island nations in...
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This China Digital Times post has been sitting open in my browser for several days now. If you’re stuck behind the GFW, it’s a question and answer Chinese artist and social commentator Ai Weiwei did with a private Chinese BBS forum, full of social questions and snappy answers. It’s worth a read, but one...
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There is a reason that when the topic of racism in China comes up, many Chinese think of the preferential treatment foreigners sometimes receive, rather than anything else. (including famous lawyer Liu Xiaoyuan, who told us “Chinese law gives foreigners all sorts of special privileges” when we contacted him for this post). In reading...
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Who are the titans of Chinese industry? The Times thinks we should know — what with the Chinese economy growing by the minute — and they’ve does us the favor of writing up a list. But how to convey that information to the illiterate and the lazy, who aren’t going to read about powerful...
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After some time in Europe, which he spent doing art stuff and recuperating from what Professor Farnsworth would call his stylish head wound, Ai Weiwei is back in Beijing. And thanks to Tiger Temple (Ai’s own blog seems to be gone, we can’t access it even here in the States), we’ve got some pretty...
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For some time now, lawyer and blogger Liu Xiaoyuan has been following the case of three netizens (You Jingyou, Fan Yanqiong, and Wu Huaying) accused of framing/falsifying information because they published an article on the internet about the lethal gang rape of Yan Xiaoling. The post attracted widespread interest online and was posted on...
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