Category Archives: Internet

Muzzling the press or cleaning up?

Posted on 2005-03-23 by Jeremy Goldkorn

There are three main entities that control media in China: – The Publicity Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (formerly the Propaganda Department); – State Administration of Radio, Film and Television (SARFT); – The General … Continue reading →

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Danwei becomes a source of news for Xinhua

Posted on 2005-03-22 by Jeremy Goldkorn

The state-owned news agency Xinhua has reproduced an entire Danwei article, a summary of The Beijing News “50 Most Beautiful People in China” story, by Joel Martinsen. Originally published on Danwei here, you can find the story on Xinhua here, … Continue reading →

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Nanny strikes back: squeezed BBS and banned books

Posted on 2005-03-22 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Nanny Nonsense 1 There’s more on the current crackdown on Internet forums on the ESWN blog, which has translations of “a number of announcements and letters by various organizations and individuals”. Former CNN Beijing bureau chief Rebecca MacKinnon has posted … Continue reading →

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Three ways of writing about Rice in China

Posted on 2005-03-21 by Jeremy Goldkorn

US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is still in Beijing this morning. News reports about her visit to China do not agree on what is important: Xinhua: Rice reaffirms one-China policy New York Times: Rice Sounds a Theme in Visit … Continue reading →

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Fighting for the right to post

Posted on 2005-03-20 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Some arm of the sour and corrupt Nanny authority has resticted access to Internet bulletin boards (BBS) hosted on servers at Tsinghua University, Peking University and Nanjing University to students and people with university Internet accounts. These BBS were formerly … Continue reading →

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Hong Taikong and President Who Jean Tao

Posted on 2005-03-19 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Internet magazine Slate has a section called Daryl Cagle’s Cartoonist Index, which is a regularly updated collection of news and political cartoons from around the world. A recently added section called China vs. Taiwan offers an insight into Western ignorance … Continue reading →

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People’s Daily Online Survey

Posted on 2005-03-19 by Joel Martinsen

The English-language website of the People’s Daily is running a survey of its readership. From the intro page: To improve our work and better serve readers, People’s Daily Online launched an online survey on March 18, which will last a … Continue reading →

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The NY Times: No news from Zhao Yan

Posted on 2005-03-18 by Jeremy Goldkorn

The New York Times has published an editorial about the detention of Times researcher Zhao Yan, who has been incarcerated incommunicado by some nasty Nanny police types for the past six months. There is no new information in the piece, … Continue reading →

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Chinese Net slang

Posted on 2005-03-18 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Shanghai blogger Bingfeng has a post about Chinese instant messaging slang. Here are some of the terms from his list, reproduced in a slightly edited form: pp = 片片 (pian pian) = picturemm = 美眉 (meimei) = girlppmm = 漂亮美眉 … Continue reading →

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Where was this when I was a kid?

Posted on 2005-03-16 by Joel Martinsen

A popular new toy: the knife-nunchuck!

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