Category Archives: Internet

Xinhua signs cooperative agreement with Japan’s Kyodo News Service;
Zhang Ziyi is one of 100 most influential people on planet

Posted on 2005-04-12 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Xinhua reports: China’s Xinhua News Agency and Japan’s Kyodo News Service signed an agreement here Monday, agreeing to further cooperation on news and photo exchanges. At a meeting prior to the signing ceremony, President Tian Congming of Xinhua told Kyodo … Continue reading →

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Zhang Ziyi is one of 100 most influential people on planet

Some different views of Japan

Posted on 2005-04-12 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Just in case you haven’t had enough of the Mainland’s anti-Japanese action, here are some links for further contemplation: – The photo reproduced here is from a gallery of images of the weekend protests, shot by a young Chinese photographer … Continue reading →

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Why Chinese people are pissed off with the Japanese

Posted on 2005-04-11 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Philip J. Cunningham writes about Japan’s revisionist history.

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One month boycott of Japanese goods

Posted on 2005-04-11 by Jeremy Goldkorn

SMS and email messages are doing the rounds in China today calling for a boycott of Japanese goods from May 1 to June 1. Chinese blogger Mo ding fang zhong (‘serve the interests of others at great expense’) has reproduced … Continue reading →

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Riots and underwear

Posted on 2005-04-11 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Reuters has news of a village riot in Zhejiang involving “thousands of villagers” and more than 200 elderly ladies, two of whom died in clashes with the police. Xinhua has an underwear special! Here is today’s main underwear page, where … Continue reading →

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Protests, what protests? But here’s something to stoke your rage.

Posted on 2005-04-11 by Jeremy Goldkorn

There’s not a word on Xinhua today about the weekend’s anti-Japanese demonstrations in various cities in China. There is however a story titled “Another discovery of 9 chemical weapons left by Japanese in Jilin Province” (in Chinese). If you want … Continue reading →

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Weekend protest roundup: what a wank

Posted on 2005-04-11 by Jeremy Goldkorn

The anti-Japanese protests ended after some random violence directed at Japanese restaurants along the road to the Japanese Embassy and a little bit of stone- and bottle-throwing at the Embassy itself. The protestors started leaving the area in the early … Continue reading →

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More anti-Japanese protest photos

Posted on 2005-04-09 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Flickr.com is a photo storage and sharing service, recently acquired by Yahoo. It’s a little like a citizens’ news photo agency: users upload their photos which are accessible to anyone, as long as they are not marked private. The photo … Continue reading →

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Sexy teachers: Xinhua’s new source is trash tabloid Weekly World News

Posted on 2005-04-09 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Xinhua is really scraping the bottom of the barrel. Not long after after plagiarizing from Danwei, the state-owned news agency has taken an article from Weekly World News, an American weekly tabloid known for stories with headlines like DINOSAURS FOUND … Continue reading →

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Breaking news: students to organize anti-Japanese protest in Beijing on Saturday

Posted on 2005-04-07 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Danwei received an email forwarded from an unverified source about an anti-Japanese demonstration being organized in Beijing, set to take place this week Saturday. Below is rough translation of the email: There will be a resist Japan protest on April … Continue reading →

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