Author Archives: Alice Xin Liu

Police clash in Nankang, Jiangxi

Before it is taken off the Internet: in the city of Nankang (南康), Jiangxi province, it was reported today that tens of thousands of people clashed with police and turned over at least three police cars.

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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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Earnshaw Books’ Tales of Old Peking

Tales from Old Peking is available from Earnshaw Books, and like its sister, Tales from Old Shanghai is a book of fragments of information about periods, events or places in Beijing’s history, collaging together pictures and text about eunuchs, concubines, the Lama Temple, Opium Wars, art, emperors, and a miscellany of other interesting topics.

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Chinese websites “under maintenance”

The administrators of Chinese websites are putting in a period of inaccessibility on their sites for period of the Tıаnanmen anniversary tomorrow.

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Twitter blocked in China

Michael Anti was right.

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Innovative government buildings: “rebellious”?

The May issue of Art & Design showcases and interviews the architects and planners on if their designs are contrary to tradition or “rebellious”.

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Launch issue of Chinese National Geography English edition

The publishers of the magazine talk to Danwei.

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Viral video disaster: stay away from locals

From Darkside, a Hong Kong blog, comes this video ad made by a hotel that was forced this week to stop the campaign for reasons explained here: Hotel Marketing Strategies.

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Michael Anti: enjoy Twitter in China while it lasts

Anti talks about Far and Wide Journal, the Global Times and Chinese Twitterland humor.

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Sunny Dezhou

Greenpeace China’s video about solar power in Dezhou city, Shandong, where almost 5.5 million people power electric appliances using solar energy.

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