Discussion Section: Do Foreigners Matter?

June 12, 2009
By C. Custer

Sometimes, we get tired of hearing the sound of our own voice. Er, reading the sound of our own...prose? Anyway, the point is, we're introducing a new series here at ChinaGeeks. Every now and then, when an interesting question occurs to us, we're just going to pose it to you, the reader.
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Beating Highlights Racial Tensions in China

June 11, 2009
By C. Custer
Beating Highlights Racial Tensions in China

…As to those of you talking about ‘the problem of ethnic minorities’, I have grown up with many minority friends and classmates, including Hui people, and except for their religios beliefs there is no difference between then and us Han people. They took eat, wear clothes, look for a better life, they’re not constantly...
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Surveilling the Surveillance: Ai Weiwei Photos

June 10, 2009
By C. Custer

UPDATE: These photos have been removed. Apologies. -ed. Recently, there have been a fair number of photos on Ai Weiwei’s blog. And they aren’t of candles! Indeed, they’ve all been fairly interesting, so we’re going to post them here in case you missed them. We’ve ordered them from most recent to least recent, the...
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Niko Bellic (GTA IV) Joins the Chengguan

June 8, 2009
By C. Custer
Niko Bellic (GTA IV) Joins the Chengguan

CLARIFICATION: TIME’s China blog story sort of implies that this is an official release, or somehow actually part of the game. It is not. As far as anyone can tell, this is just a hack/mod/re-skin created by a fan or fans in China for the purpose of making a joke. It isn’t something you...
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2009 Gaokao Essay Questions

June 8, 2009
By C. Custer

As many of you know, this past weekend was the gaokao (高考), China’s brutally long standardized college entrance exam. The test differs from region to region and student to student (depending on whether they have focused on sciences or the humanities), but all students are tested in Chinese, Math, and a foreign language (usually...
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Art, Dammit: Neocha's NEXT

June 7, 2009
By C. Custer

Recently, things have gotten a bit serious here at ChinaGeeks, so in order to combat the crushing depression that comes from constantly writing about depressing things, we’re instituting a new series: Art, Dammit. Art, Dammit will appear unexpectedly from time to time, covering whatever we find that’s worthy of your time (or maybe isn’t)....
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