We take a brief respite from our nearly nonstop coverage of political stuff to bring you this translation of an essay by Li Yinhe, the famed sexologist, social commentator, and widow of Wang Xiaobo. Aside from the fact that it’s written by a famous Chinese social commentator, it has nothing to do with China,...
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Every year for several years now, blogger, sociologist, and sexologist Li Yinhe gives proposals advocating the legalization of gay marriage to her representative friends during the meetings of the NPC and the CPPCC. This year is no different, but she’s added another proposal to the mix this time around, calling for an end to...
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Last month, Xiao Han, an outspoken intellectual at the Chinese Politics and Law University, wrote a piece which classifies China’s Fifty Cents Party into different types.
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The NPC (National People’s Congress) kicks off again this year, and in preparation for that day, Premier Wen Jiabao went to the internet to answer questions from users. This has sparked a lot of discussion on the Chinese blogosphere, the following is a translation of blogger Han Song’s thoughts following the chat. It’s not...
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No, this isn’t about the gymnasts. The (Fake) Walls Come Tumbling Down Tiger Temple reported recently about one of the unintended aftereffects of Beijing’s rush to make itself pretty in the run-up to the Olympics in 2008: the fake walls constructed to make buildings look better in areas of the city expected to receive...
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One hopes that the US’s National Security Administration agents are smarter than they come off in the translated post below, but you never know! In any event, this joke has been being passed around the Chinese internet, and can be found here, among other places. Some netizens have interpreted as fact, which I discuss...
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