Category Archives: Internet

FRONT PAGE OF THE DAY Beijing Morning News is the best of a bad bunch. The large headline is: Meeting to introduce urban planning for Olympics. Other headlines are about 6 way North Korea talks, RMB banking business in Hong … Continue reading →

Chen Lili, a transsexual from Chongqing, has been given the green light to compete in the China selection pageant for the Miss Universe competition. This is what she looked like just after her sex change operation. This is a picture … Continue reading →

The teacher who supposedly posted nude photos of herself to her ‘zhu ying qing tong’ blog is still in the news, despite the fact that the photos wouldn’t shock a Baptist granny. Here is a China West News report from … Continue reading →

This image has nothing to do with outsourcing. The stuff beneath the image does. {You can find plenty more pulp novel covers at these two excellent websites: Strange Sisters, Vintage Paperbacks.} Now back to the outsourcing. THOMAS FRIEDMAN IN THE … Continue reading →

Chinese portal Sohu reports that Wang Qishan has been selected to be Beijing’s new mayor. This is Wang Qishan: The Sohu report is here.

Tianjin blogger Adam Morris has a ‘China Briefing’ up on the group blog Winds of Change. Interesting match: Adam is generally sympathetic to China. The Winds of Change people tend to be Neocons: in favor of the projection of American … Continue reading →

Peter Morris in Asia Times Online asks: Will China be Google’s crown jewel? “With growth in China’s advertising market expected to reach 18.3 percent this year, Google has jumped on the bandwagon with the introduction of its new Chinese AdWords … Continue reading →

Chinanews.com published an article drawn from a CCTV investigation of – shock horror! – a strip club in the Federation of Trade Unions’ office in Shengzhou, Zhejiang Province. The image shows strippers dragging a customer up on to the stage. … Continue reading →

This was originally entitled ‘Content aggregation, censorship, capitalism, China’. But after trying to post the below on the group blog Living in China, I found that there is some kind of delay before posts are published (think post Janet Jackson … Continue reading →