Category Archives: Blogs

Did you plant a tree yesterday?

China’s tree-planting compliance rate stands at just 55%.

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Cartoon violence raises hackles

Rainbow Cat and Blue Rabbit (虹猫蓝兔七侠传) gets pulled from CCTV. Censorship?

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Bitching about expatriate men of China

Here’s a newish blog: China Dirt. It seems to be written by a few Western women who are living in China and finding the expatriate men a little tiresome. It describes itself thusly: Fuck! Could the men living in China … Continue reading →

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Livejournal blocked in China?

Blog and online diary platform Livejournal seems to be blocked in Beijing, and also in Shenzhen, according to Mary Ann O’Donnel, author of Shenzhen Field Notes. Can readers elsewhere in the country confirm? Please leave a comment or send email … Continue reading →

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Exploitation and The Blood of Yingzhou District

Xinhua journalist Xiong Lei (熊蕾) eviscerates the academy-award-winning AIDS orphan documentary The Blood of Yingzhou District (颍州的孩子). Cinematographer Qu Jiangtao (曲江涛) responds.

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Kaiser redux

Rock musician, writer and China technology maven Kaiser Kuo is blogging again: Ich Bin Ein Beijinger. Excellent.

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Picking apart the 2007 Gala

Spring Festival 2007 Gala videos and controversy.

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Making corrections, handling statistics

An old issue of the People’s Daily leads Teng Yun (滕云) to muse about the proper way to deal with facts in the newspaper business.

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Blogger Wang Xiaofeng sticks it to the man

We discussed Beijing culture – or the lack of of it – swearing, idiots on the Internet, Northeastern Chinese jokes about sex, blogging, and the meretricious behavior of Sina.com.

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帽牌老外vs三表 (中文版本)
采访王小峰的视频和音频

Chinese version of Wang Xiaofeng interview. 笔者和王小峰聊了一下午,录了将近一个小时,剪辑成10分钟的视频。你也可以听全采访的音频纪录.

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采访王小峰的视频和音频