Category Archives: Blogs

WordPress blog host unblocked

China’s Net Nanny seems to have unblocked the WordPress blog hosting service which has been inaccessible since February 2006. Weifang Radish is the only China-related blog hosted on WordPress that your correspondent knows of, but feel free to add others … Continue reading →

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Political structure and the Shanxi kiln scandal

Zhu Dake (朱大可) writes about the Shanxi brick kiln slaves. A parody ‘internal report’ suggests that slavery should be a new form of economic development.

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The media circus when a celebrity dies

Hou Yaowen (侯耀文) dies. He Dong (何东) writes about the media circus, comparing it to the death of Huang Ju (黄菊). Also, Sina apologizes for deleting the post.

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Nanny’s little list

Ho hum, the Typepad blog hosting and software service was blocked in China sometime last week. This means that China Law Blog, Useless Tree, Kaiser Kuo and Tim Johnson’s China Rises are not accessible in Mainland China. Decentralization is key … Continue reading →

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“Grab the sofa” to win free furniture

Boloni (博洛尼) has a blog-related sofa promotion.

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The blogification of print media

Fang Jun (方军) at Mind Meters (思维的乐趣) writes about Chinese print media lifestyle columns being influenced by blogs.

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How much freedom of speech do Chinese netizens have?

Xiong Peiyun (熊培云) on La République des Esprits (思想国) writes about Netease and comment pruning in the Shanxi brick kiln slave case.

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Chinese Internet responses to slave children case

The case of the children enslaved at a Shanxi brick factory has been widely reported in the Western and Chinese media, and is all over the Internet in both Chinese and English languages (a good summary by Chen Peijin of … Continue reading →

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Copyright protection for online content

Beijing Business Today recently reported on China’s accession and ratification of two U.N. Internet-related treaties, the WIPO Copyright Treaty and the WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty. Together, the two treaties require signatory countries to provide copyright protection for computer programs, … Continue reading →

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Further developments in the case of the polite pronoun

More comments on 您 from Ding Qizhen (丁启阵) and Qian Shiming (钱世明).

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