Of course China's internet is open and free. Can Ms Clinton not visit our sites at any time she pleases? Not only China's internet is open, but China's jails are open. - We can enter at any time. Our hospitals are also open, we can apply for surgery to check our lungs at any...
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Perhaps you’ve already seen this. Still, we’re going to add to the madness because it’s fun, and because sometimes even very serious China watchers like us enjoy watching videos about crazy men with knives wearing underwear and threatening their bosses. First, the video (h/t to Ryan of Lost Laowai, click the link if the...
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This forum post on Anti-CNN asks the question of netizens: “Without the Great Firewall, would China be able to occupy the battlefield of the Western public discourse?” Here is a sampling of some of the responses by Chinese netizens: NO IT CANNOT. 1) China lacks language skills. You should know most people only study...
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The following is an original translation of a post by lawyer Liu Xiaoyuan. Ironically, the post was quickly deleted from his blog (see the delete notification he got here), but the essay has been reposted here. Translation On January 21 Hilary Clinton made a speech at the Newseum journalism museum in Washington about the...
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The following is a translation of this post from Han Song’s blog. It’s not immediately clear whether this is something that acutally happened to him or just a joke. On the one hand, it’s written like the sort of joke that often gets passed around on the internet; on the other hand, as it...
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The following is a translation of this post from blogger/writer/race car driver Han Han. Note that I have translated ”黄段子“ （literally, “yellow texts”) variously as “inappropriate texts”, “sexy texts”, and “pornographic texts” depending on what I think works best in context. Translation Today, all over the nation, the crackdown has started on pornographic/inappropriate text...
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Chinese artist, activist, and dissident Ai Weiwei? He’s not a big fan of Confucius, apparently. From his Twitter: From whatever angle you look at it, Confucius is disgusting. He followed that with the rather vulgar: I don’t understand Confucius and Confucianism, do I also not understand your mother’s c**t? Lest one be confused and...
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Blogger/author/race car driver/faux bad-boy Han Han recently posted a very tongue-in-cheek essay predicting China’s future in reaction to the news about Google. It has since been deleted, probably by Sina’s editors, but the Chinese original can be found here, among other places, and Roland Soong of ESWN has already translated it. The whole thing...
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Via Amoiist’s Twitter, a comparison of modern Chinese internet policy with Qing dynasty isolationism from IfLonely (a blog whose motto is “If we want to keep living, we must understand the internet a little”). Anyway, here is our translation of their comparison table. Translation A Comparison… Qing Dynasty Closed-Door Policy Modern Internet Censorship Policy...
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So Google might be leaving China. Ostensibly, the company will be engaging in talks with the government as to how they can proceed to exist in China, but is no longer to follow Beijing’s censorship rules. Various people have speculated about other reasons for Google’s willingness to abandon what will certainly be the largest...
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