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Is the Green Dam filter experimenting on computer users?

Today’s The Beijing News ran an op-ed piece by well-known Chinese commentator Hu Yong, a journalism professor at PKU, author of books about the digital age in China, blogger and oldhand journalist, about the topic of the “green dam”, which has been debated loudly on the Internet as well as offline media.

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1979: Beijing’s Big Bowl Tea

Before Wang Xiuchen returned to Beijing in 1977, she had spent eight years in a remote village as a farmer. Though she was called “educated youth”, she had only finished junior middle school and struggled to find a job in the capital.

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Wen Jiabao visits Gansu and Shaanxi

Today’s Modern Express (现代快报) places a big photo on the front page showing Premier Wen sharing a meal of potato and corn with local farmers in Longnan, Gansu Province.

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Mobile phone spam list of shame

A list of companies condemned for sending mobile phone SMS spam

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Asimov Published, Interviewed in Beijing

Cover story from this week’s Book Review section of The Beijing News announces the publication of a Chinese translation of Isaac Asimov’s complete Foundation series. Yup, the Beijing News has scored a fictional interview with “I, Asimov”. They’ve been taking similar liberties recently in their entertainment sections, captioning photographs of celebrities with made-up quotes.

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