Sometimes, we get tired of hearing the sound of our own voice. Er, reading the sound of our own...prose? Anyway, the point is, we're introducing a new series here at ChinaGeeks. Every now and then, when an interesting question occurs to us, we're just going to pose it to you, the reader.
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…As to those of you talking about ‘the problem of ethnic minorities’, I have grown up with many minority friends and classmates, including Hui people, and except for their religios beliefs there is no difference between then and us Han people. They took eat, wear clothes, look for a better life, they’re not constantly...
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UPDATE: These photos have been removed. Apologies. -ed. Recently, there have been a fair number of photos on Ai Weiwei’s blog. And they aren’t of candles! Indeed, they’ve all been fairly interesting, so we’re going to post them here in case you missed them. We’ve ordered them from most recent to least recent, the...
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CLARIFICATION: TIME’s China blog story sort of implies that this is an official release, or somehow actually part of the game. It is not. As far as anyone can tell, this is just a hack/mod/re-skin created by a fan or fans in China for the purpose of making a joke. It isn’t something you...
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As many of you know, this past weekend was the gaokao (高考), China’s brutally long standardized college entrance exam. The test differs from region to region and student to student (depending on whether they have focused on sciences or the humanities), but all students are tested in Chinese, Math, and a foreign language (usually...
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Recently, things have gotten a bit serious here at ChinaGeeks, so in order to combat the crushing depression that comes from constantly writing about depressing things, we’re instituting a new series: Art, Dammit. Art, Dammit will appear unexpectedly from time to time, covering whatever we find that’s worthy of your time (or maybe isn’t)....
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With the anniversary of June 4th now passed, relatively without incident, I was hoping to move on to other topics, but I came across this op-ed piece in the New York Times and, well, here we are. In it, Nicholas Kristof (the Times’s Beijing Bureau Chief in 1989) recounts his experiences in Beijing on...
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In memory of those who died.
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With Twitter blocked and his Fanfou apparently censored already*, it’s been a rough couple of days for Ai Weiwei, but the new blog remains free. Today, he posted this piece. It’s very short, and very, very poignant. Please, please read this. Translation Let us forget about June 4th, forget this ordinary day. Life has...
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…and the government is preempting it by blocking everything and arresting some people. Among the victims are Wu Gaoxing, a “prominent dissident”, as well as websites Twitter, Flickr, Hotmail, and Microsoft’s new search engine Bing (how did anyone even notice this was blocked?). You might already be aware, as there are more than a...
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