An interview with the man who founded 1984bbs. Today, that bbs closes for good. Learn why it was important, and what Zhang had to put up with to keep it open as long as he did.
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An interview with the man who founded 1984bbs. Today, that bbs closes for good. Learn why it was important, and what Zhang had to put up with to keep it open as long as he did.
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Liu Xiaobo has won the Nobel Peace Prize.
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A Chinese netizen reflects on the Diaoyu Islands scandal and concludes that being locked up by the Japanese isn't that bad...
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Last night I got an email from Rachel Beitarie, journalist and blogger at Bendi Laowai. Because I don’t know anything more about the situation than what she sent in her email, I’m going to post most of it verbatim here: I took the attached photos this afternoon near the entrance to old town in...
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Should Liu Xiaobo win this year's Nobel Peace Prize? And what about the "Silk Road Peace Prize", a Chinese version that is being proposed by a local organization.
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A small but angry group of protesters turned out at the Japanese embassy Saturday morning to protest Japan's actions in the Diaoyu Islands. We headed down there with a video camera to take it all in.
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On August 23rd at 10:47 pm, Beijing college student Ma Yue fell onto the tracks of the subway on Beijing's Line 2, and was electrocuted -- maybe. Despite the fact that the Beijing subway system is absolutely covered with surveillance cameras, Ma Yue's family is being told there is no footage to confirm his...
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Yunnan officials are allowing a US Christian group to include abstinence-only teaching materials in their official sex ed curriculum. That is a terrible idea.
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‘A warlike, various, and a tragical age is best to write of, but worst to write in,’ said Abraham Cowley, a seventeenth-century English poet. In a sense, this can be used to describe the politics in China: for the conscious social critics, there is so much to criticize, so many corrupted leaders, unreasonable policies,...
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The details of Tian Xi's arrest and detention come into focus.
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