“Abstraction is the most fanatical enemy of memory. It murders memory because it advocates distance and, moreover, aloofness. We must remind ourselves: what was massacred was not the number, it was a person, then another, then another…only in this way can we understand the meaning of ‘massacre’.”
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I hope everyone had a happy Serfs’ Liberation Day. Don’t know what I’m talking about? Well, you haven’t been reading the People’s Daily. In the past week or so, the government has launched a massive PR blitz on Tibet, even as security was tightened in the province and Tibetan ethnic regions and riots were...
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I saw a report online about Unhappy China. I still haven't seen the book, nor do I want to read it, I'll just sweep an eye over it and comment; I've heard that inside it attacks liberal intellectuals, including Wang Xiaobo and me. I only have two comments on the kind of books that...
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It’s been a while since people were buzzing all over China about milk that had been poisoned with melamine, and the babies who drank it and were killed. Well, the courts haven’t forgotten: today they upheld their death sentence for Geng Jinping, who was convicted of selling over 900 tons of tainted milk to...
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Last Sunday, I logged into our website with no greater intent than writing a post of some kind so as to keep to our unofficial one post per day quota. Finding an image I interpreted as racist on several Chinese blogs, I decided to write about the picture and the larger issue behind...
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Recently, browsing through the Chinese blogs in my favorites list, I came across a rather surprising image (click here for full size version, image after the jump), a mockup of "evolution" in several different countries parodying the classic from-monkey-to-man evolution image found in high school textbooks. The reason it was posted in...
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Today's poems come from the poet/writer/filmmaker Yin Lichuan's blog (a tip of the hat to Danwei is in order for listing it among their Model Worker blogs) and some websites that collect her work. According to the China Daily, Lin "is now well known within China for her novels, poetry...
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We don’t have a lot of rules here at ChinaGeeks, but there are some simple guidelines we ask our writers to follow most of the time. Please read all of this, and bookmark the page so that you can check back on it when you are unsure of something. For First-Time Writers If you’re...
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Twenty years ago, a group of college students sat quietly at the entrance to the Great Hall of the people and raised a poster with seven demands:
They're called "Little Emperors" -- children whose experience has been shaped by the twin forces of increasing financial prosperity and the Chinese government policy dictating that they are only children -- and the first real generation of them is coming of age. They are arguably the richest and best-educated generation of Chinese ever. So...
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