A lot of people talk a big game on the internet, and Chinese people are no exception. When it comes to the topic of patriotism, especially, the gloves of rhetoric often come off and discussions can quickly descend into a cacophony of name-calling and fallacious assertions. Zhao Weilu, apparently, has had about enough, and...
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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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The following is a translation of most of this post (we skipped the last paragraph) from Woeser’s blog (which is currently blocked in China). Translation After the 7/5 Urumqi incident, Minzu University Associate Professor and head of a Uyghur website Ilham Toxti was placed under house arrest, and soon after more...
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ChinaSMACK readers have probably already seen this post of theirs, purportedly a transcript of a BeiDa student laying into a Japanese reporter. Much of the discussion on ChinaSMACK is centered around whether or not it’s fake — it seems awfully likely it is, given the lack of video, photos, or attribution — but what...
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"Shanghai doesn't welcome you,
Unless you're coming to buy something,
But we don't have any money on us,
Shanghai doesn't welcome you,
The 2010 World Expo is really great,
All the rich people from all over the world will be united "
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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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Recently, the video of the Shanghai schoolgirl beating one of her classmates has become very hot on the internet, I don't know whether you have seen it. Coincidentally, my cousin's child, a very well-behaved child, was also beaten a few days ago. The reason was that he didn't let another student with worse grades...
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A colleague forwarded us this New York Times story about the recent Frankfurt book fair, at which the tensions between China and the West were very much on display. The Times has tagged it as “uneasy engagement”, and we couldn’t think of a more apropos phrase to describe the conference. Government representatives, dissident writers,...
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