The Chinese government has taken steps to hobble domestic microblogging.
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“I have no faith in the Party,” Ms. Liu told me. “I don’t believe in anything in the history textbooks. It’s all lies.” This would hardly be remarkable, except that Ms. Liu is herself a Party member, and has been for several years.
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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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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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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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"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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