Last we knew, when the Chinese government wanted to demolish houses, it had ways of getting the residents to submit. It’s hard to combat that, but if recent events are any indication, some citizens have adopted a new resistance technique: fire. First there’s the case of Pan Yong, a woman in Shanghai who, to...
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ChinaGeeks will be more or less dormant for the next two weeks as I will be leading a group of students from my school on an exchange program to Wuxi. I’m not bringing a laptop, as I don’t anticipate having any time to be on the internet anyway. Feel free to use this thread...
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The following is a translation of this post from Chang Ping’s blog. Translation A few days ago I received an invitation from the US Embassy saying that an advance briefing for would be held simultaneously via video in Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou, mainly discussing Sino-US relations and President Obama’s visit to China. Because I...
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Anyone else see this article in the New York Times and think of this post of ours from last spring? Yeah, we didn’t think so. Well, in it, I was arguing that China’s hardcore quarantining response wasn’t the gigantic disaster everyone in the West was making it out to be, and even had the...
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A while back we ran a review of the film Win in China, a documentary about Chinese entrepreneurship directed by Ole Schell, son of famed China scholar Orville Schell. We were offered a chance to interview Ole, and jumped at the chance. ChinaGeeks: Which came first, the idea of making a documentary about “Win...
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If this article is to be believed, “are you a Party member?” is in danger of becoming the latest internet meme. Our loose, partial translation is below. Translation On November 6th, Xinhua reported: is the common-sounding phrases “are you a Party member?” becoming the next popular internet phrase? The past two days, the phrase...
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Wang Keqin’s blog has a very long accounting (based on this original story) of how the rebuilding is going in earthquake-affected areas like Mianyang. Unfortunately, it seems some of the new building materials are just as shoddy, or even worse, then the ones destroyed in the 5/12 earthquake. His post is too long to...
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It was with some interest that we read this story in the New York Times last week. It seems South Korea, like China, has some issues with racism. And South Korea, like China, is a country where the number of foreigners (often people of other races) is increasing. What was interesting about the article,...
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Bear with us today, it’s a long road to the question. A few places around the China blog community have linked Bob Page’s excellent article “Are online relationships between China and the US boiling over? Rednecks against Red Guards?”, which is itself a response to Kaiser Kuo’s excellent lecture at UNL, “Shouting Across the...
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Here’s a quick visual update on Ai Weiwei’s medical case. For those who don’t know, Ai was beaten by police while attending the trial of Tan Zuoren, another very public crusader for justice for the children who died because of shoddy building in the 5/12 earthquake. Around a month later, in Germany, he developed...
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