"An Open Letter to the Kunming M.P.C. Secretary"

July 25, 2009
By C. Custer

The following is a translation of this post by Li Yinhe. Dear Kunming Municipal Party Committee Complaints Secretary, I want to discuss with you the Kunming Elementary School student prostitution case, the Chen Yan prostitution case that followed it, and the father-accommodated prostitution case. According to my analysis of the interviews of reporters, there...
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F***n G**g and the Hardest Thing About Studying China

July 25, 2009
By C. Custer

There is nowhere on earth we can learn about or read about without bias, but even given the assumption that bias exists everywhere, China might be the worst country in the world to attempt to study if you're trying to assess the veracity of anything remotely controversial.
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China Actually Doesn't Censor WoW

July 23, 2009
By C. Custer

The changing of "skeletons to corpses, bones to flesh" in The Burning Crusade has been a revision that goes against what many players wish -- this was not one of the revisions originally requested by the evaluation expert, The9 took the initiative in demanding this revision. a personal opinion: everyone...
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The Scope of the Chinese Internet

July 22, 2009
By C. Custer
The Scope of the Chinese Internet

This story has been a bit buried by other things, but it bears mentioning even amidst the sterling satire of The Onion: there are now 338,000,000 Chinese internet users. To start with, let’s get a handle on just how large a number that is. If every single person in the United States used the...
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The Onion Does China

July 21, 2009
By C. Custer

On the humor front — a front we really ought to visit more often, frankly — we would be remiss if we didn’t point you in the direction of The Onion today. For those not in the know, The Onion is a satirical American news website that posts fake (but funny) news stories. Today,...
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Video Time: Tibetans on Tibet and the Olympics

July 20, 2009
By C. Custer

Remember near the end of the year in grade school when your teachers got sick of teaching and showed vaguely educational movies? That’s sort of what this is like. We’re too busy to post something real at the moment, so we pass along this thirty-minute video we got from Woeser’s site. It’s not particularly...
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