Not long after, Li Chunhua was taken to the Lutou substation. There, she was questioned a bit more, for example "why were you reporting the authorities", etc. etc., and was told that bypassing the immediate authorities and going straight to the top was illegal. After, she was released. Relatively late in the...
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Not everyone is happy about the P.R.C.’s birthday, or some of the festivities associated with it. Still, it’s important to mark these historical anniversaries, and I don’t think many people would disagree that at the very least, China and the Chinese people are better off now than they were sixty years ago. Plus we...
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Via Zhaomu’s blog, an account of chengguan attacking and beating traffic police in Hankou: Translation “That group of people was very fierce, after beating the traffic police, they said they were going to kill me!” a PSB officer told a reporter yesterday afternoon remembering the event, he still feels afraid. He said it...
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There has been some discussion about Thoman Friedman’s most recent op-ed, “Our One-Party Democracy“. In it, he compares China to the US favorably, arguing that China’s autocratic system is more efficient and responsive: There is only one thing worse than one-party autocracy, and that is one-party democracy, which is what we have in America...
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With students starting to file in and a new school year just around the corner, things have been a bit busy here at ChinaGeeks HQ, so you’ve probably already heard that there are more rumblings in Xinjiang. The short version: some people (Han) were being stabbed (by Uighurs) with syringes, which led to protests...
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Recently we got an email requesting that we do a piece about this story. The whole story is worth a read, but the gist of it is thus: Authorities in China are moving to snuff out petitioning, a centuries-old form of protest that brings thousands of aggrieved people to the capital each year seeking...
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The Anti-CNN folks are up in arms again, so much so that their webmaster has written a news story about it in English. This time, the target of their displeasure is the New York Times, who apparently edited photo captions for photos of the riots in Xinjiang. The photos came with captions from...
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The following is a guest post from Elizabeth M. Lynch of China Law and Policy The Hunt for a New China Policy? A Review of the Jon Huntsman Confirmation Hearing Thursday’s Senate confirmation hearing for the next ambassador to China was a virtual love-fest from both sides of the aisle. Democratic senators gushed about...
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The changing of "skeletons to corpses, bones to flesh" in The Burning Crusade has been a revision that goes against what many players wish -- this was not one of the revisions originally requested by the evaluation expert, The9 took the initiative in demanding this revision. a personal opinion: everyone...
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Facebook is blocked, and if you're the kind of person who lives in China and enjoys using Facebook, it might be time to finally get that VPN set up because it's looking like you're not going to see legal Facebook access for some time.
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