In the rush to cover the QQ vs. 360 PR fiasco, everyone seems to have forgotten the question that's really at the center of this issue.
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In the rush to cover the QQ vs. 360 PR fiasco, everyone seems to have forgotten the question that's really at the center of this issue.
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The word "freedom" is censored in the new World of Warcraft expansion in China. Chinese netizens respond by creating a new slang term.
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Southern Weekend looks into whether or not the weather reports in China are reporting temperatures too low. (They are!)
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Some compelling homemade videos of the Jilin floods cause us to speculate about what the increased prevalence of this kind of video might do for journalism and information freedom within China's authoritarian system.
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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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The Chinese government has taken steps to hobble domestic microblogging.
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Earthquake scientist Wang Chengmin provides an inside look into the problems with trying to predict earthquakes, and journalist Zhao Shilong takes the S.S.B. to task for wasting money that could be spent on earthquake prevention.
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This post has been making the rounds on the intertubes, the version we’re translating comes from Anti-CNN. It’s a satirical guide for prospective Fifty Cents Party members on the many methods they can use to respond to criticism: Translation Comment: This chicken egg tastes disgusting. Response: The duck egg next door is even worse...
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Recently, the Chinese internet has been abuzz with the term yakexi . According to a post on Baidu’s Baike, yakexi is the Uyghur word for good. The word has been in general use as a brand name for some time now, but it took on new meaning at this year’s Spring Festival Gala, where...
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Twitter has been a boon for the Chinese dissident community. It is, in essence, an open forum outside the reach of GFW censorship. It is a place where Tan Zuoren’s sentence can be spread through an entire community within a couple minutes of it being handed down, a place where Ai Weiwei can respond...
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