A few days ago we published a translation of the satirical Fifty Cents Party Training Manual. In the interest of fairness and at the request of some Anti-CNN commenters, we now bring you a translation of this, a similar sendup of democracy advocates. Translation First item: This egg tastes great, because it is a...
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I apologize for stepping on Max R.’s most recent translation, which is here and which everyone should read. But I would be remiss if I didn’t point you in the direction of this post on Youku Buzz, and this machinima film, called War of Internet Addiction. That link goes to Youku, but viewers outside...
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It is with a heavy heart that I point you in the direction of these stories. Gao Zhisheng, a lawyer who ChinaGeeks contributor Chris Hearne wrote about back in March of 2009, is missing. Gao, a Nobel Prize nominee, has been in custody since last February, but when his brother asked for information about...
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I wrote about this in our “While You Were Reading About Google” post, but I’m pretty sure no one read it because everyone was caught up in the Google story. Perhaps they still all. This story is worth your time, though, because it has implications that potentially rival, if not surpass, those of Google’s...
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By popular demand, we continue our translation of this post by Zhao Weilu. Click here for Part 1. In the post, Zhao Weilu is listing thing Chinese internet “patriots” often do that he finds both widespread and annoying. Translation Part 2 Talking about “the motherland/mother says…” Talking about “Five thousand years of civilization…” Saying...
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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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The following translation is an excerpt from this article from the Party magazine Qiushi. The whole article is called “The Main Issue for Modern Patriotism: Pushing Forward the Great Undertaking of Socialism with Chinese Characteristics”; we have translated only a small segment of it. It’s not the sort of thing we generally post, but...
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Westerners worldwide will wake up tomorrow with gifts under their Christmas trees. Liu Xia will wake up tomorrow -- for her, December 26th -- with the knowledge that Christmas brought her an empty home for the next eleven years.
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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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That your paranoia affects my ability to check Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, Danwei, the CDT, etc. etc. whenever I'm in China, I can handle. But this kind of "principle" affects everyone in the world. It is in no way a Chinese internal affair, and should not be treated as such (just as it shouldn't be...
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