With the anniversary of June 4th now passed, relatively without incident, I was hoping to move on to other topics, but I came across this op-ed piece in the New York Times and, well, here we are. In it, Nicholas Kristof (the Times’s Beijing Bureau Chief in 1989) recounts his experiences in Beijing on...
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In memory of those who died.
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At that time, everyone was fired up and wanted to be heroes. It seemed like we had reached a stage in history where we were so close to having the China that we wanted, all we had to do was put in a little hard work and a beautiful country would emerge. ...
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With Twitter blocked and his Fanfou apparently censored already*, it’s been a rough couple of days for Ai Weiwei, but the new blog remains free. Today, he posted this piece. It’s very short, and very, very poignant. Please, please read this. Translation Let us forget about June 4th, forget this ordinary day. Life has...
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…and the government is preempting it by blocking everything and arresting some people. Among the victims are Wu Gaoxing, a “prominent dissident”, as well as websites Twitter, Flickr, Hotmail, and Microsoft’s new search engine Bing (how did anyone even notice this was blocked?). You might already be aware, as there are more than a...
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You can see, in the face of disaster the people of Shifang are tenacious, and under the great leadership of the Party, the rebuilding process is flourishing! Mr. Li! You once were a member of the Communist Youth League, and grew up accepting the education of the Party. Wherever the Party says we should...
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