Of course China's internet is open and free. Can Ms Clinton not visit our sites at any time she pleases? Not only China's internet is open, but China's jails are open. - We can enter at any time. Our hospitals are also open, we can apply for surgery to check our lungs at any...
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The following is an original translation of a post by lawyer Liu Xiaoyuan. Ironically, the post was quickly deleted from his blog (see the delete notification he got here), but the essay has been reposted here. Translation On January 21 Hilary Clinton made a speech at the Newseum journalism museum in Washington about the...
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The following is a translation of this post from blogger/writer/race car driver Han Han. Note that I have translated ”黄段子“ （literally, “yellow texts”) variously as “inappropriate texts”, “sexy texts”, and “pornographic texts” depending on what I think works best in context. Translation Today, all over the nation, the crackdown has started on pornographic/inappropriate text...
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The following is a translation of this post from Tiger Temple, about the ordeal and presumed death of a homeless man in Bobai, Guangxi. This post contains disturbing images and may be NSFW. Translation When Ren Zi called that night from a Guangxi street, he was standing beside a vagrant. His voice choking repeatedly...
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Things have been depressing for China watchers as of late. Increased censorship, Google’s threat to leave, Liu Xiaobo’s sentencing, Gao Zhisheng’s probable execution…it’s been a rough month. But you’ll be happy to know that a few encouraging things have happened! First of all, the recent reports that “sexting” would be banned appear to have...
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Blogger/author/race car driver/faux bad-boy Han Han recently posted a very tongue-in-cheek essay predicting China’s future in reaction to the news about Google. It has since been deleted, probably by Sina’s editors, but the Chinese original can be found here, among other places, and Roland Soong of ESWN has already translated it. The whole thing...
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I wrote about this in our “While You Were Reading About Google” post, but I’m pretty sure no one read it because everyone was caught up in the Google story. Perhaps they still all. This story is worth your time, though, because it has implications that potentially rival, if not surpass, those of Google’s...
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Commenter wooddoo posted a rumor apparently going around that as of today, there is officially no more Google China. Can anyone confirm this?
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Via Amoiist’s Twitter, a comparison of modern Chinese internet policy with Qing dynasty isolationism from IfLonely (a blog whose motto is “If we want to keep living, we must understand the internet a little”). Anyway, here is our translation of their comparison table. Translation A Comparison… Qing Dynasty Closed-Door Policy Modern Internet Censorship Policy...
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…you missed some important stuff. (You can still read our translation of what Chinese people think about Google here, though) A Step Back in Xinjiang First, our poor friends in Xinjiang (who wouldn’t notice if Google left China since they don’t have access to anything beyond a few heavily censored domestic news portals anyway)...
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