Any foreigner who has traveled to China has seen its beggar children, often alone, wandering the streets in search of spare change. It is a sad sight, and the unseen background is sadder: most of these children are kidnapped or otherwise forced away from their families. Often their families have no idea where they...
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The most incredible video I have ever seen on the Chinese internet.
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For all the talk about Han Han being the voice of a generation and being too big to be silenced by the government, it sure seems like he’s been, well…silenced. There is no way to prove it’s the government silencing him, of course, but who else would it be? First, there’s his magazine 独唱团,...
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It starts early. When the most recent Wikileaks dump broke, most of the folks in China news circles were focused on its supposed revelations about China’s support (or lack thereof) for North Korea. As the story has cooled, of course, most people have returned to earth, reminded that these cables represent the diplomatic equivalent...
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We're having a photoshop contest! The goal: to create the funniest/best parody magazine or book cover about China, drawing on whatever cliche images, words, and headlines you choose.
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Liu Xiaobo winning the Nobel Peace Prize has given rise to a lot of discussion. The Global Times, for one, has been running vicious op-eds slamming Liu and the Nobel Peace Prize daily since the award was announced. Some of the discussion happening outside official media, in contrast, has been interesting and productive, but...
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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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In the wake of the Zhouqu landslides, an argument breaks out in Chinese on an American website and quickly devolves into stupid bickering.
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Why Chen Min thins the Beijing Police agreeing to follow the law in monitoring their own microblog is a good thing.
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Sohu has stepped up their blog policing measures significantly, according to lawyer Liu Xiaoyuan, whose blog has been deleted multiple times in the past several days.
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