I saw a report online about Unhappy China. I still haven't seen the book, nor do I want to read it, I'll just sweep an eye over it and comment; I've heard that inside it attacks liberal intellectuals, including Wang Xiaobo and me. I only have two comments on the kind of books that...
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Today's poems come from the poet/writer/filmmaker Yin Lichuan's blog (a tip of the hat to Danwei is in order for listing it among their Model Worker blogs) and some websites that collect her work. According to the China Daily, Lin "is now well known within China for her novels, poetry...
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Twenty years ago, a group of college students sat quietly at the entrance to the Great Hall of the people and raised a poster with seven demands:
Part II: Hauntings.
As long as people have been around there have been reports of ghosts. Indeed, Chinese culture has a long and rich history of belief in otherworldly spirits, especially the spirits of the dead, and the ways they affect the living. These days, many people (Westerners and Chinese) have written off these traditional...
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On March 10, New Publication Section Chief Liu Binjie said in an interview with the media, "when compared with the international media, the weakness of Chinese media is mostly systemic. In the past, under then planned economic system, the media was a department of the press, set up by press administration officials, and did...
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As you can read in today’s New York Times, fascination with a “mythical” creature is the latest internet meme to go mainstream in China. That creature? The Grass Mud Horse. Ostensibly, the Grass Mud Horse is an alpaca-like creature that lives in the Ma Le Desert and fights River Crabs. In actuality, though, the...
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"A small group with ulterior motives", "the people unaware of the truth", "evil instigators behind the scenes"...Recently, shortly after large "mass incidents" one can always see the local government hastily determining in this way. Guizhou's "Weng'an Incident", Yunnan's "Menglian Incident", as well as Gansu's recent "Longnan Incident": early on...
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