Blogger/author/race car driver/faux bad-boy Han Han recently posted a very tongue-in-cheek essay predicting China’s future in reaction to the news about Google. It has since been deleted, probably by Sina’s editors, but the Chinese original can be found here, among other places, and Roland Soong of ESWN has already translated it. The whole thing...
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It is with a heavy heart that I point you in the direction of these stories. Gao Zhisheng, a lawyer who ChinaGeeks contributor Chris Hearne wrote about back in March of 2009, is missing. Gao, a Nobel Prize nominee, has been in custody since last February, but when his brother asked for information about...
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I wrote about this in our “While You Were Reading About Google” post, but I’m pretty sure no one read it because everyone was caught up in the Google story. Perhaps they still all. This story is worth your time, though, because it has implications that potentially rival, if not surpass, those of Google’s...
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Commenter wooddoo posted a rumor apparently going around that as of today, there is officially no more Google China. Can anyone confirm this?
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Via Amoiist’s Twitter, a comparison of modern Chinese internet policy with Qing dynasty isolationism from IfLonely (a blog whose motto is “If we want to keep living, we must understand the internet a little”). Anyway, here is our translation of their comparison table. Translation A Comparison… Qing Dynasty Closed-Door Policy Modern Internet Censorship Policy...
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…you missed some important stuff. (You can still read our translation of what Chinese people think about Google here, though) A Step Back in Xinjiang First, our poor friends in Xinjiang (who wouldn’t notice if Google left China since they don’t have access to anything beyond a few heavily censored domestic news portals anyway)...
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