Tag Archives: Tibet

Chinese Net Nanny on the rampage

Youtube is blocked, the websites of The Guardian and L.A. Times newspapers are not currently accessible in Beijing; we have reader reports of the Yahoo home page not loading from around the country. In addition, web pages with high numbers … Continue reading

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Danwei Picks: Odd kababs

Xiamen PX redux; happenings in Tibet; Air New Zealand pays different rates; AIDS kababs.

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Danwei Picks: Ramadan in China

Regulating scrap; tradition in Tibet; Ramadan in Xinjiang; Australian hostages; film ratings get the thumbs down.

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Bjork: Raise your flag? Declare independence? “Tibet…Tibet”

Iceland’s art rock princess, Bjork Iceland’s avant-garde art-rock songstress, Bjork, performed to a sold-out crowd last night at the Shanghai International Gymnastic Center; her first-ever show in Shanghai – she performed once before in Beijing, circa 1996. Never ceasing to … Continue reading

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Shocking covers on Phoenix Weekly

Phoenix Weekly (凤凰周刊) covers for August, 2007.

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Tibet travel piece revamped for Chinese eyes
by Bruce Humes

Bruce Humes dissects a Reference News (参考消息) edit-job on a New York Times article about travel in Tibet.

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by Bruce Humes

Some photos from Woeser

Some translations and photographs from the recently closed blogs of Woeser (唯色).

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Visions of the Qinghai-Tibet railway

Han Song (韩松) on the new ‘ladder to the sky’ – an excerpt of a story called ‘The Special Train Ticket’ (特别火车票) aka ‘The Guilty Train Ticket’ (罪恶火车票), as well as his comments on the opening ceremony for the Qinghai-Tibet railroad.

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