Author Archives: Alice Xin Liu

Dirty jokes by mobile phone

Since the announcement that any mobile phones sending sexual and pornographic text messages will have their text messaging function turned off, bloggers and microbloggers have been mercilessly mocking and teasing the government plan

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On the other side of the “wall”

Incomplete Mountain uses ironic wit and puts bloggers and Internet activists in a landscape where isn’t censorship of the Great Firewall. The result he draws is that no-one would have their blood boiling at the sense of injustice because there would be no mistreatment and civil cases.

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Annular solar eclipse

A video from Youku showing the annular solar eclipse (日环食), which occurred today.

This one is from Shanghai, but there are also video records from Zhuhai, Guangzhou and Beijing.

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Shenzhen ex-cop directs traffic during snow, called “most handsome”

Shenzhen’s Daily Sunshine (晶报) has been reporting on an ex-cop, Hu Di (胡堤), who on his journey from Shenzhen to Wuhan, got off a bus to conduct traffic during a bad jam. But Hu, “the most handsome cop” in Shenzhen, has already been transferred to another, non-police related department.

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No newspapers sold in subway stations but one

Today’s The Beijing News reported on the decision that every newspaper had to be taken out of Beijing subway stations apart from Star Daily (北京娱乐信报).

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Many wish good luck to Hu Shuli’s new magazine Century Weekly

Reactions to the change of editorship came in the form of newspaper columns as well as blog posts. Ten Years of Chopping Timber (十年砍柴) is a reporter at Legal Daily. He commented on the move in Southern Metropolis Daily and gave the conclusion that no-one should blame Hu Shuli. An ex-deputy editor of New Century Weekly, Wen Zhang (文章) also blogged about his reaction to the takeover: it satisfied him, he wrote; both posts are translated below.

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Move class outside if there is demolition going on!

Today’s Yangzi Evening News reports that in Nanjing, next to the Dujiang Victory Memorial Museum, high school students are attending class outside in the cold.

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Digging out a train

Heavy snowfall has basked northern China since Saturday. Today, like several other regional papers, the Chutian Metropolis Daily reported on the excavation effort of Train #1814.

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Urban China: Work in Progress

Urban China: Work in Progress published by Timezone 8 is a collection of works based on Urban China magazine. Below, its editor Brendan McGetrick gives us permission for an extract as well as a section from his own introduction to the book.

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Seasons greetings from Danwei (part II)

Thanks to Nick Frisch, who organized the “Third Judeo-Christmas Chinese-food dinner.”

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