Category Archives: Internet

Blocked in China

Posted on 2004-03-25 by Jeremy Goldkorn

http://www.unipeak.com/getpage.php?_u_r_l_=aHR0cDovL2RhbndlaS50eXBlcGFkLmNvbS8= OR http://anonymouse.ws/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://danwei.typepad.com/ Those unfriendly strings of characters are the only ways to see Danwei.org in China at the moment. The Great Celestial Nanny has put Typepad.com on the blacklist. As a result, Danwei.org cannot be seen in China without … Continue reading →

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A deal with the devil?

Posted on 2004-03-25 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Soap Box Jams asks: What does Xinhua have on Google? “Xinhua is China’s so-called “news wire service.” I’ve noticed that the dreary state-owned wire service receives a lot of loving from Google News. Is this the result of some deal … Continue reading →

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Xinhua: Book throws harsh questions on Chinese sex education

Posted on 2004-03-24 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Xinhua’s English site reports on a new book about the poor state of sex education in China: A recent book portraying 13 high school students as “roses concealed in a school bag” for being brave to have sex but lacking … Continue reading →

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Chinese science fiction

Posted on 2004-03-23 by Jeremy Goldkorn

The cryptically named ‘zhwj‘ is an English language website about Chinese science fiction. So far, the site contains an introduction to Chinese science fiction, news about the Milky Way Awards (awarded to the year’s best science fiction short stories as … Continue reading →

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Putting the dong into Guangdong

Posted on 2004-03-22 by Jeremy Goldkorn

From the English-language website News Guangdong: 28 meters in height and 7 meters in diameter, Yanyuan (sic – should be Yangyuan) Stone resembles the male’s penis, enjoying a reputation of “the most marvelous stone in the world”. Making sure that no … Continue reading →

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Headlines: 11pm, March 20, 2004

Posted on 2004-03-20 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Xinhua homepage: Central Academy of Sciences to train hundreds of strategic scientists

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Shanghai beefcake: Xinhua has not yet discovered the word ‘hunk’

Posted on 2004-03-18 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Xinhua reports: Thirty young men competed over the weekend for the chance to receive 300,000 yuan (US$6,145) in free plastic surgery … Shanghai Kinway Plastic & Cosmetic Surgery Center, which sculpted the city’s first man-made female beauty three months ago, … Continue reading →

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Naughty chairs in Hunan

Posted on 2004-03-17 by Jeremy Goldkorn

From China News: The photo is captioned thusly: In Changsha benches made from ‘naked woman’ kneeling down and with upraised buttocks cause passersby to be enraged at the vulgarity. The photo is on China News here. Thanks to the Shanghai … Continue reading →

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Corn is cool

Posted on 2004-03-15 by Jeremy Goldkorn

A new online gallery of propaganda paintings: Histoire et Peintures de China. It’s in French, but Anglophones may be able to figure out what words like ‘Galerie’ and ‘Attitude révolutionnaire’ mean. These are the danwei picks:

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Sport in the Northeast

Posted on 2004-03-12 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Taking a leaf out of Sichuan Online’s book, North East News presents a series of images called ‘Alternative Sports Groups’. That’s one way to work up a sweat. You can find the Alternative Sports series here. Note the banner at … Continue reading →

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