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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.
Posted in Internet
Tagged CNNIC, Hu Yong, internet addiction disorder, Ministry of Health, The Beijing News, Yang Yongxin
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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.
Posted in China Books
Tagged Blacksmith Books, Jonathan Chamberlain, King Hui
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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.
Posted in Featured Video
Tagged climate change, Dan Chung, Jet Li, One Foundation, Tony Blair
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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.
Posted in Charity
Tagged Juyuan Hotel rape, Leung Man-tao, Xu Zhiyong
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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.
Posted in Featured Video
Tagged Jiamin Zhao, Mobinode, Yeeyan
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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.
Posted in State media
Tagged China Newsweek, interview, Uighur, 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.”
Posted in China Books
Tagged Charles Horner, China books
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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.
Posted in Featured Video
Tagged Asia Society, Dashuxian, mining
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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.
Posted in State media
Tagged local governments, mass incident, People's Net, ten guidelines
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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.
Posted in Newspapers
Tagged Chang Ping, internet addiction disorder, Southern Metropolis Daily
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