Twitter has been a boon for the Chinese dissident community. It is, in essence, an open forum outside the reach of GFW censorship. It is a place where Tan Zuoren’s sentence can be spread through an entire community within a couple minutes of it being handed down, a place where Ai Weiwei can respond...
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If you live in China, all you have to do is step onto the street to experience what chunyun, the rush of Chinese people on all forms of transportation to get home for Spring Festival, is all about. And while the holiday has already started this year, if you don’t live in the South,...
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Another Spring Festival is here. We here at ChinaGeeks want to wish you a happy year of the Tiger, and a fun (and safe!) holiday! If you want to know more about what this whole Spring Fesitval thing is about, check out our translation of the story of spring festival from last year! Again,...
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The following is a guest post by K. Drinhausen: The final sentence for the good man of Sichuan? Even considering the various indicators of the Chinese governments harder stance against any form of dissent in the past year (or even criticism voiced within the system) the outcome of the appeal of Tan Zuoren still...
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I apologize for stepping on Max R.’s most recent translation, which is here and which everyone should read. But I would be remiss if I didn’t point you in the direction of this post on Youku Buzz, and this machinima film, called War of Internet Addiction. That link goes to Youku, but viewers outside...
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The following is a translation of this post by Li Yinhe. Translation Nowadays there are some young people who are quite conservative in their thinking, who have more or less stopped at the level of the Westernizing faction of the late Qing dynasty. They advocate a Chinese “system” but Western “usage”. They promote the...
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