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We survived a day in China

Notes about social criticism and black humor on the Chinese Internet, by Victor H. Mair, Professor of Chinese Language and Literature at the University of Pennsylvania.  We survived! Here is a translation of the cartoon at left that has been … Continue reading

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Floods and 20 million in Beijing, but not much about the oil spill

Typhoons and flooding in the south, but not oil slicks, are on many Chinese newspapers front pages today.

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Stock picker fined, barred for price manipulation

Yangtse Evening Post: Wang Jianzhong, a stock broker and market commentator will pay 125 million yuan in fine and the same amount as its illegal income for market manipulation

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CCTV disaster rate card

CCTV has a rate card for commercials during its live earthquake broadcasts.

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Why commemorate the Tangshan earthquake?

SF writer and Xinhua journalist Han Song asks how we know that the Tangshan Earthquake really happened.

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