Discussion Section: Western Fenqing?

November 5, 2009
By C. Custer

Bear with us today, it’s a long road to the question. A few places around the China blog community have linked Bob Page’s excellent article “Are online relationships between China and the US boiling over? Rednecks against Red Guards?”, which is itself a response to Kaiser Kuo’s excellent lecture at UNL, “Shouting Across the...
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Ai Weiwei's Brain

November 3, 2009
By C. Custer

Here’s a quick visual update on Ai Weiwei’s medical case. For those who don’t know, Ai was beaten by police while attending the trial of Tan Zuoren, another very public crusader for justice for the children who died because of shoddy building in the 5/12 earthquake. Around a month later, in Germany, he developed...
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Ai Weiwei Earthquake Project: "Muyu Diary"

November 1, 2009
By C. Custer

The following is a translation of this post on Ai Weiwei’s blog by one of his volunteers. The investigation, it seems, is ongoing, as is the harassment of investigators. And, as one might expect, the investigators are getting tired and, if Keke is any indication, beginning to snap a little. Muyu Diary The weather...
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The 200th Post!

October 31, 2009
By C. Custer

It seems like it hasn’t been that long since our 100th post, but here we are. This may be a rather long post, as I’ve been saving up a lot of nuts-and-bolts type stuff for this post rather than clogging up content posts with it, but please do take the time to read it....
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How to Deal With Violence in Schools?

October 29, 2009
By C. Custer

Recently, the video of the Shanghai schoolgirl beating one of her classmates has become very hot on the internet, I don't know whether you have seen it. Coincidentally, my cousin's child, a very well-behaved child, was also beaten a few days ago. The reason was that he didn't let another student with worse grades...
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"Attack those who seek audience with higher-ups"

October 27, 2009
By C. Custer
"Attack those who seek audience with higher-ups"

If the people and those who report were allowed to make slogan posters, I would make these: Attack illegal complaints/reports, protect the interests of the people complaining! Complaint departments mustn't dispute over trifles, shift responsibility, or respond slowly! Complaint departments must always have someone answering the phone, and that guy can't say...
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