Author Archives: Jeremy Goldkorn

Breaking on Twitter: thugs harass and detain Deng Yujiao journalist

A Twitter development in the Deng Yujiao case.

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My Beijing Birthday screening this Friday

“How ya doing? I’m Howie, just your average hyper Jewish guy from New York”. Event announcement: The Foreign Correspondents Club of Beijing will host a screening of the film My Beijing Birthday at Paddy O’Shea’s bar in Beijing on Friday … Continue reading →

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Internet censorship victim wins court case

Censored economics professor wins court case against Internet provider for censoring his blog posts.

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Sala

Music from the Sichuan quake zone.

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Blogger.com blocked, but not the Washington Post

Google’s blogging platform Blogger.com is blocked again in China.

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Grace Chang sings Carmen

The inimitable Shanghai born Hong Kong singer and actress Grace Chang (aka Ge Lan 葛兰) performs a really saucy Mandarin version of the Habanera from Bizet’s Carmen.

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Is this the kind of information that should be embargoed?

The Far Eastern Economic Review‘s Traveller’s Tales blog says that “For the last few days, China-hand journalists have been whispering and sending coded emails about the late Zhao Ziyang’s forthcoming memoirs”

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Afterquake: music made in Sichuan

A Sexy Beijing video of Abigail Washburn and Dave Liang of the Shanghai Restoration Project making music with children who survived the May 12, 2008 Sichuan earthquake, using folk songs sung by the children as well as sounds of their parents rebuilding their houses with bricks and mortar.

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New rules for foreign financial news wires: Q&A with David Wolf

David Wolf answers Danwei’s questions about new rules for foreign financial information providers in China.

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Jia Zhangke in The New Yorker

Jia Zhangke video and links.

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