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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As you may have already seen elsewhere, Ai Weiweis blog has been closed. Well, the one hosted on Sina, anyway. His bullogger blog is still up, but it doesn’t contain some of the most recent posts everyone else is translating. As previously mentioned, Danwei and the China Digital Times have done the translation legwork...
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When I had finished my meal and was heading home, the landlady came over anxiously and said, "Last night seven police officers came looking for you, they said they were looking for someone from Beijing who spoke Mandarin; they are checking all the guesthouses in Nanba. They were pianjing [片警, a common nickname for...
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Three days later, Ai Weiwei’s blog is still silent. ChinaGeeks has confirmed that there was a brief update a few days ago that was quickly harmonized, entitled “Let Me Sleep a Bit Longer, Mom, I’m Tired”, which contained some updates and personal anecdotes about some of the students Ai’s project is attempting to memorialize....
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We recently translated a post on Ai Weiwei’s blog that can only be described as bitter and despondent. It is also harshly, sweepingly critical of the government, and we speculated that it might be harmonized. It has been, along with every single post from May (save one candle photo). The original Chinese of that...
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Your silence and ignorance have already become the price for your safety, become an important reason your existence is permitted. You have become the cost of maintaining the status quo in your republic, and for the sake of the great and kind mother, why not? If you can't see or hear anything, then you...
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Since last year’s earthquake, the government has stubbornly refused to release the numbers of students killed. Ai Weiwei’s volunteer project, a group attempt to collect and release the number and names of the students who died, has recently gained some attention, on this blog and elsewhere, largely because of the resistance Ai has encountered...
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WARNING: This post contains some graphic images. Proceed at your own risk. Chinese artist Ai Weiwei keeps on trucking, collecting names and information of students who died in the May 12th earthquake one year ago, and but the censors moving along just the same, deleting posts as he puts them up over and over...
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Ai Weiwei’s blog was recently updated with statistics from their investigation as of April 27th. There’s no point in translating the post fully, so we’ll just reproduce it below. The first column is the ranking of the schools, by number of estimated deaths. The second column is the name of the school in question...
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In modern China, no one can shut themselves in an ivory tower, there is nowhere that's a haven of peace. If, in life, you wish to get far away from this haze, aside from action, aside from seriously and earnestly fighting for change, creation, and construction, there's no other way.
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