Tag Archives: democracy

Southern Weekly on Thailand and democracy

The Chinese media have covered the protests rather heavily, with the implicit message frequently being that chaos is the expected outcome when developing countries embrace democracy.

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Social commentary in the comics

CMJ, a 24 year old cartoonist, a promising home-grown manga artists.

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Cover your ears: audio drugs are attacking!

Zhejiang-based newspaper Today Morning Express alerts its readers about ‘audio drugs’ that attack in silence.

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China votes for Obama

China – and Asia – show a preference for Obama.

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Music on mobile phones

SARFT vs. 56.com; quake reconstruction; democratization? Wen Jiabao profiled; 19 years; civil society after the earthquake.

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Google’s evidence of a moment of mourning

A momentary drop in Google searches; Sino-US matchup; death tolls; letters from Sichuan; Tudou off the blacklist; free press; Uighur forum shutdown.

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A new meaning of democracy for 2007

China Newsweek (中国新闻周刊) democracy on the cover.

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Democracy in America, and intellectual imperialism

Two satirical essays: ‘Why implementing democracy is not appropriate for America’ and a criticism of Michael Jensen’s plagiarism accusations agains Renmin University’s Yang Ruilong, translated from a 新语丝 post.

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After democratic “Super Voice Girls” experiment, Chinese officals put Taiwan’s fate to national text message vote

Voting and the Super Girls.

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The meaning(lessness) of “Super Voice Girl”

Writing in Sunday’s Legal Mirror, Li Yu performs a postmortem on the ‘Supergirl’ (the “Mengniu Sour Yogurt Super Voice Girl” American-Idol-style TV show) phenomenon:

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