"Without the GFW, Could China Win Western Public Opinion?"

January 28, 2010
By C. Custer

This forum post on Anti-CNN asks the question of netizens: “Without the Great Firewall, would China be able to occupy the battlefield of the Western public discourse?” Here is a sampling of some of the responses by Chinese netizens: NO IT CANNOT. 1) China lacks language skills. You should know most people only study...
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Sexism in Han Han's Film Review?

January 26, 2010
By C. Custer
Sexism in Han Han's Film Review?

Yesterday I translated this Han Han post for ChinaSMACK. In the process, I came across this passage, which I found rather interesting. Han Han is saying that he is willing to give Confucius (the recent Chow Yun-fat film) only two “points”, the second of which is thusly explained: Also, because the director is female,...
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The Future of ChinaGeeks

January 25, 2010
By C. Custer

Listen up, folks, we’ve got some news! First of all, I’m happy to announce something you may have already noticed: that Max R. (a.k.a. maxiewawa from ChinaSMACK) has joined ChinaGeeks as a translator! I’m excited to have him on board and look forward to reading his translations! Please remember we’d love to have you...
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"Hillary Talks About the Problem of the Chinese Internet, China Unhappy"

January 25, 2010
By Max R.

The following is an original translation of a post by lawyer Liu Xiaoyuan. Ironically, the post was quickly deleted from his blog (see the delete notification he got here), but the essay has been reposted here. Translation On January 21 Hilary Clinton made a speech at the Newseum journalism museum in Washington about the...
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Chinese Video Games in America

January 24, 2010
By C. Custer

In terms of video games, there has long been a divide between East and West. Even in the current climate, dominated by American and Japanese developers and publishers, there isn’t as much integration as one might expect. And Chinese games have, historically, failed to find much of a market outside the PRC’s borders. Still,...
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"From Now On, America is in Trouble!"

January 23, 2010
By C. Custer
"From Now On, America is in Trouble!"

The following is a translation of this post from Han Song’s blog. It’s not immediately clear whether this is something that acutally happened to him or just a joke. On the one hand, it’s written like the sort of joke that often gets passed around on the internet; on the other hand, as it...
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