It’s funny how things turn out: after 60 years as an officially atheist country, it seems kind of hard to deny that religion is growing in China. That in and of itself doesn’t mean as much as one might think – after all, China has had religion for most of its history and the...
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I saw a report online about Unhappy China. I still haven't seen the book, nor do I want to read it, I'll just sweep an eye over it and comment; I've heard that inside it attacks liberal intellectuals, including Wang Xiaobo and me. I only have two comments on the kind of books that...
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It’s been a while since people were buzzing all over China about milk that had been poisoned with melamine, and the babies who drank it and were killed. Well, the courts haven’t forgotten: today they upheld their death sentence for Geng Jinping, who was convicted of selling over 900 tons of tainted milk to...
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Last Sunday, I logged into our website with no greater intent than writing a post of some kind so as to keep to our unofficial one post per day quota. Finding an image I interpreted as racist on several Chinese blogs, I decided to write about the picture and the larger issue behind...
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Recently, browsing through the Chinese blogs in my favorites list, I came across a rather surprising image (click here for full size version, image after the jump), a mockup of "evolution" in several different countries parodying the classic from-monkey-to-man evolution image found in high school textbooks. The reason it was posted in...
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Today's poems come from the poet/writer/filmmaker Yin Lichuan's blog (a tip of the hat to Danwei is in order for listing it among their Model Worker blogs) and some websites that collect her work. According to the China Daily, Lin "is now well known within China for her novels, poetry...
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