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 magazine Nanfeng Chuang recently ran a short piece about Ai Weiwei‘s busy 2009. It’s a good summary for those who haven’t been following the exploits of the famed artist/activist, and if you have, it’s interesting to see this kind of stuff written about Ai Weiwei in a real magazine rather than on some...
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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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After some time in Europe, which he spent doing art stuff and recuperating from what Professor Farnsworth would call his stylish head wound, Ai Weiwei is back in Beijing. And thanks to Tiger Temple (Ai’s own blog seems to be gone, we can’t access it even here in the States), we’ve got some pretty...
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For some time now, lawyer and blogger Liu Xiaoyuan has been following the case of three netizens (You Jingyou, Fan Yanqiong, and Wu Huaying) accused of framing/falsifying information because they published an article on the internet about the lethal gang rape of Yan Xiaoling. The post attracted widespread interest online and was posted on...
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The following is a translation of most of this post (we skipped the last paragraph) from Woeser’s blog (which is currently blocked in China). Translation After the 7/5 Urumqi incident, Minzu University Associate Professor and head of a Uyghur website Ilham Toxti was placed under house arrest, and soon after more...
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From the point of view of someone who has been compiling and editing international news for several years now, there is definitely room for imagination in the headline: China is willing to cooperate with America's plan to increase troops. But what does "cooperate" mean?
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