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Author Archives: Joel Martinsen
Microblog competition shrinks
Twitter’s blocked. Fanfou’s been down for weeks. Now Digu is closed for upgrades and Zuosa is inaccessible.
Exposing the wildcat mines of Hengshan County, Shaanxi
China National Radio reports about wildcat coal mines in Shaanxi, and two teachers who were suspended until their families stopped petitioning.
Posted in Oil, Energy and Resources
Tagged CNR, coal mines, education, petitions, Shaanxi
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Too much dialect on the small screen
SARFT says TV characters should speak standard Mandarin. Even Mao and Deng?
Posted in Language
Tagged Chinese Business View, dialect, language, SARFT
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A health care infomercial spoof
A clip from a 2007 film spoofing dodgy advertisements.
The ground falls out from under Beijing’s business district (again)
A sinkhole opens up near Beijing’s Dawangqiao, not far away from the spot where another sinkhole turned up in 2007.
Posted in Beijing
Tagged Beijing Times, CBD, sinkholes
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Botswana’s Chinese weekly, The Oriental Post
The Oriental Post (华侨周报) launches in Botswana. It’s a weekly, and it’s not the first Chinese-language paper in Africa
Posted in China and Africa, Newspapers
Tagged Botswana, newspapers, People's Daily, shoddy journalism, The Oriental Post
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Remembering Ji Xianlin
Ji Xianlin dies. He was a ‘national treasure,’ but was he a ‘master of national learning’?
Posted in Scholarship and education
Tagged academia, Ji Xianlin, national treasure, obituaries
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The hemp farmers of Jilin
Oriental Outlook reports on China’s largest marijuana bust: a group of families in Jilin who planted pharmacological hemp out in the open on 600 hectares of farmland.
Posted in The Countryside
Tagged drugs, Jilin, marijuana, Oriental Outlook
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Reporting in Xinjiang
Newspaper websites in Xinjiang are unreachable from Beijing. But reporting is still going on.
Blockages
Academic Criticism Online gets DDOS’d. Also, Danwei’s mysterious inaccessibility.
Posted in Internet
Tagged Academic Criticism, blockages, opinion, Yang Yusheng
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