When Li Chunhua was being detained, her toes were bound with wire, she was shackled to an iron chair and then tortured using electrocution! She was going to Beijing to report to the authorities; she was trying to report them for illegally using electricity to torture a citizen! However, in Beijing -- "the best...
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Thanks to Jenny Zhu of Chinesepod, we’ve been made aware of an interesting migrant worker blog. Migrant workers coming from the countryside fill construction sites in every major city. They face poor working conditions, low wages (although considerably higher than in the rural areas where they come from) and urban residents’ discrimination. Locals here in Beijing blame...
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Since we translate Ai so frequently, and since there’s been such discussion about him in the comments as of late, we thought it might be useful to offer a little perspective. For comparison, we’ll translate the some of the comments on Ai’s blog as well as some of the comments on an Anti-CNN post....
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…As to those of you talking about ‘the problem of ethnic minorities’, I have grown up with many minority friends and classmates, including Hui people, and except for their religios beliefs there is no difference between then and us Han people. They took eat, wear clothes, look for a better life, they’re not constantly...
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CLARIFICATION: TIME’s China blog story sort of implies that this is an official release, or somehow actually part of the game. It is not. As far as anyone can tell, this is just a hack/mod/re-skin created by a fan or fans in China for the purpose of making a joke. It isn’t something you...
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As many of you know, this past weekend was the gaokao (高考), China’s brutally long standardized college entrance exam. The test differs from region to region and student to student (depending on whether they have focused on sciences or the humanities), but all students are tested in Chinese, Math, and a foreign language (usually...
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At that time, everyone was fired up and wanted to be heroes. It seemed like we had reached a stage in history where we were so close to having the China that we wanted, all we had to do was put in a little hard work and a beautiful country would emerge. ...
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With Twitter blocked and his Fanfou apparently censored already*, it’s been a rough couple of days for Ai Weiwei, but the new blog remains free. Today, he posted this piece. It’s very short, and very, very poignant. Please, please read this. Translation Let us forget about June 4th, forget this ordinary day. Life has...
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You can see, in the face of disaster the people of Shifang are tenacious, and under the great leadership of the Party, the rebuilding process is flourishing! Mr. Li! You once were a member of the Communist Youth League, and grew up accepting the education of the Party. Wherever the Party says we should...
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Every failed revolution failed because of lack of correct guidance on political theory, making the mistake of leaning too far left or right, not first joining the Party leadership, not founding and consolidating a worker-peasant alliance, etc. If it's not one of those reasons, it's definitely that the counterrevolutionary forces were too strong, Chinese...
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