Hello, dear readers! If you’ve visited the site today, you may have noticed that posts and comments now both feature a star rating system. Hooray! Now if you like (or hate) a post, you can let us know, and if you like (or hate) a comment, you can let the commenter know too. You’ll...
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Both China and the US have, in their ways, been dancing around environmental issues for years. China, a “developing” nation, played that card, while America played the “War on Terror” card. But the regime change in America, as well as increased recognition on the part of Chinese leaders that environmental issues could also threaten...
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At Zhejiang University, there are many girls who, like me, are dating foreigners. I'm young and beautiful, witch excellent grades, and many people pursue me, but I'm dissatisfied with Chinese men. Please tell me, is that not conducting myself with dignity? Loving whom we choose, is this wrong?
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Recently, we wrote a piece about how people attempting to collect names and information about students who died in the Wenchuan earthquake are meeting some resistance from police and officials. In the past few days, Ai Weiwei’s project has seen even more harassment. Yesterday, he posted a timeline of official messages from the last...
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If you aren’t aware already, the Chinese government recently announced “a blueprint for health-care over the next decade”. The reforms are aimed at making healthcare more available and affordable. The ultimate goal: “By 2020, the world’s most populous country will have a basic health-care system that can provide “safe, effective, convenient and affordable” health...
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McClatchy has an interesting piece up about the increasing popularity of tattoos in China in recent years (h/t to Danwei). It’s a pretty interesting read, and apparently lots of Chinese people are getting tattoos in foreign languages, so hopefully in a few years we can look forward to seeing English tattoos that make as...
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If you live in China, you’ve seen them. Even if you can’t read Chinese, you can probably guess what they’re saying. They’re the red and yellow banners fluttering from official buildings everywhere, the tackily illustrated posters telling you not to spit on the street, and the collages of hundreds of smiling Chinese faces with...
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The New York Times reported today about a human rights activist who was beaten in a cemetery on tomb-sweeping day. Sun Wenguang, who is 75 years old, went to the cemetery to pay his respects to Zhao Ziyang. Apparently, that was enough to get him brutally beaten by “four or five men”. Zhao Ziyang...
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Recently, we translated an editorial piece by Hu Yong that stressed the importance of remembering the dead by keeping track of them individually, recognizing them as people instead of numbers. Specifically, Hu praised the efforts of famed artist and social commentator Ai Weiwei, who is currently in the process of investigating and publishing the...
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"I really didn’t know this was the last time I would ever see him. It never occurred to me. I told him I hadn’t been able to come see him before, and so came to see him now. I told him I believed he wouldn’t do anything to endanger the country or society. I...
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