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Tainted Milk Powder Reappears

July 11, 2010
By K. E. David
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Southern Weekend reports the reappearance of more melamine-tainted milk. The culprits, Dongyuan Dairy Products, have apparently been distributing the yet-to-be-destroyed raw materials from the 2008 incident.
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“Beijing is Hot as Hell”: A Musical Delight

July 10, 2010
By Chris Hearne

A musical parody of "Beijing Welcomes You" -- the official song of the 2008 Olympics -- sweeps the net, but the lyrics have been changed to address the fact that the city is, at the moment, basically on fire.
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Dark Days for Chinese Journalists

July 9, 2010
By C. Custer
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Even as Evan Osnos was writing about the beating of Fang Xuanchang, an editor at Caijing magazine, renowned investigative journalist Wang Keqin was posting on his blog about the beating of another Chinese journalist, this time a CCTV reporter in Shanxi province.
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Southern Weekend: “Only When We Do Away With Hereditary Hierarchy Will the Lower Class Have a Real Hope”

July 8, 2010
By Alex Taggart
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"In education, recruitment, employment and various other sectors, the pattern of power-retention by the powerful is solidifying, yet the rights of the lower classes often suffer encroachment. The hardening of the hierarchy is right before our eyes. The channel of upward mobility for the lower classes is narrowing by the day."
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The “Yan Xiaoling” Case and its Legal Ripple Effects

July 7, 2010
By K. Drinhausen
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On June 28th three netizens were sentenced to jail terms between one and two years for libel in their appeal trial in Fuzhou in what was the latest ripple effect of the mysterious circumstances surrounding the death of Yan Xiaoling in February 2008.
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Two Corrupt Officials/Poets and Renting Literary Clout

June 28, 2010
By C. Custer
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The cases of two corrupt officials who used their clout to make themselves giants in the literary world illustrates how easy it can be to manipulate literary circles when everything is controlled by the Party.
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Victims of Tainted Vaccine Gather to Protest

June 27, 2010
By C. Custer
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Parents of victims of the Shanxi vaccine scandal gathered in front of the Ministry of Health to protest.
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Xu Zhiyong, et al: “The Chinese Citizens’ Pledge”

June 20, 2010
By C. Custer

A group of prominent Chinese intellectuals calls for citizens to take a daring pledge to push China more swiftly towards the rule of law.
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Public Intellectuals in China

June 11, 2010
By Andy Yee
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Liu Gang offers his thoughts on the different kinds of "public intellectuals" that exist in today's China.
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