Author Archives: Alice Xin Liu

The stigmatization of Internet Addiction Disorder: searching for a definition

News reports on August 28 highlight the possibility than an official definition for Internet Addiction Disorder (IAD) will be released in the first half of next year. Star media blogger and PKU professor Hu Yong wrote a blog post in July expressing a liberal disdain for the current recognition of what IAD stands for.

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Jonathan Chamberlain’s King Hui: The Man Who Owned All the Opium in Hong Kong

In the years before the latter’s death at the age of 79, Jonathan Chamberlain spent an evening a week recording the stories told by Peter Hui. The resulting biography tells, in Hui’s own words, of scandal and corruption, drugs and pirates, triads and flower boats; of Japanese invasion and Communist intrigue; the real story of Hong Kong, told with the rich flavours of the street.

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The 1,000 village plan

Tony Blair and Jet Li plan to tackle climate change in a Climate Group and One Foundation collaboration, video by Dan Chung.

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Finding good in Sodom: Leung Man-tao on Xu Zhiyong

Leung Man-tao (梁文道), the social commentator and TV critic who has published books as well as written numerous newspaper articles and blog posts, penned a blog post on August 13 inspired by Xu’s disappearance and the petitioner’s rape at the Juyuan Hotel this month.

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Reading the Internet beyond your language

Mobinode, a group blog focused on the Asia tech industry, has an interview with Jiamin Zhao, the co-founder of Yeeyan.com.

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The young Uighurs were full of empathy and faint excitement: China Newsweek reporting from Urumqi

Danwei asks China Newsweek journalists questions about the ethnic conflict, their own take on media freedoms during reporting, reactions to Western reports and biases, and as their stay in Xinjiang.

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Charles Horner’s Rising China and Its Postmodern Fate

A postmodern book about China’s rise, and creating “a culture increasingly less receptive to heroic national undertakings.”

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Big Tree County and Sulphur mining

Big Tree County (大树县), in Sichuan Province, is the site of a large sulfur mine. In 1992 Hao Zhiqiang produced a 60-minute documentary on how the mine wiped out the trees that gave the county its name. More information about the film can be found at the Asia Society China Green page.

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Ten guidelines for local governments including handling riots by being media leader

Zhu Huaxin (祝华新) is the Secretary of the “sentiments monitoring office” of State owned People’s Net Online (人民网). On July 24 he wrote for China Youth Daily ten guidelines for local governments on the topic of how to handle Internet public opinion, the outbreak of mass incidents and how to utilize the media, and local government’s reactions as well as response to breaking social incidents.

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Chang Ping on how “Internet addiction disorder” is a joke

On July 16 Chang Ping (also known as Zhang Ping), who used to be the deputy editor of the Southern Metropolis Weekly wrote an opinion piece in Southern Metropolis Daily questioning whether “internet addiction” could even be seen as an illness. Furthermore, he expresses the idea that some organizations have taken Ivan Goldberg’s original joke too far.

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