Stories about Chinese from January, 2008
China: T-shirt with Chinese Character
Alpar shows a t-shirt with Chinese characteristic, with slogans and pictures of eight prides and eight shames, harmonious society, city management teams’ violence (zh).
China: The Vagrants behind the Wall
Beijing, the host of 2008 Summer Olympics, is trying to show every bright aspect of its stable and harmonious to the whole world, however, when you are almost convinced by the prosperous night scenes around the Forbidden City, you may never think behind some traditional Chinese-style walls, there is another totally different world.
China: A melee in and out of the college
A physical brawl between a college profeesor and his girl student in class incurred unusually opposite voices. The situation was even more complicated due to the resignation of another professor and was ending in a political debate between the liberal and the left wing.
China: Shanghai Subway Video
mirenyige uploaded a short video in youtube showing a young couple's good-bye kiss in a shanghai subway station. From the angles of the video, netizens suspected (zh) that it was taken from the CCTV inside the station by subway staffs.
China and Hong Kong: Jet Li on Patriotism
Diumanpark blogs the transcript of famous actor Li Lianjie or Jet Li's T.V interview, in particular his view about patriotism. To Jet, independent thinking is most crucial (zh).
China: Contradictory Statistic
In a Shanghai survey 76% of the primary and secondary school students said that they had never been to the Arts Museum while 84% said that they like the Arts Museum. Zhang-qing wonders how the two figures can co-exist (zh).
China: No Human Dignity, No Olympic
Clairewy reposted in her blog an article by Teng Biao (a Chinese Lawyer) about Hu Jia's arrest, which re-instated that “without human right and dignity, there is no genuine Olympic; for the sake of China, for the sake of Olympic, we have to defend human right.” (zh)
China: Real Name SNS
Tangos pointed out that the different between facebook and HaiNei (another Chinese version of facebook) is that the former stresses network effect, while the latter stresses real name and identity (zh) and it is an incomplete version of facebook.
China: Baby Needs Milk
Civic rights activist Hujia was arrested and his wife Zhen Jinyan was detained. Cathay is worried about their new born baby and she sent some milk powder to the baby via door to door delivery (zh). The blogger wants the couple to know that they are not alone.
China: Inside the Wall Social Network
Kblogs introduces a new social network site in China, called Qiangne.com, which means inside the (great fire) wall. The blogger said that such kind of social network platform would manifest the “harmonious society” to its extreme (zh).
China: This week's mass incidents
Still several months to go until the Olympics, yet just the past few days have seen a number of unrelated mass incidents take place around the country, from the large protest at the Tianmen Party headquarters and a taxi driver strike in solidarity following the the recent beating to death...
Hong Kong: Massive Contempt of Standing Committe of NPC
The Department of Justice sues the civic radio for contempt of court by violating the restraining notice. Erynnyes said the Jan 13 rally for 2012 universal suffrage is a massive contempt of standing committee of National people congress which had rejected the 2012 time table (zh).
China: Apartment Slave
Fu Jianfeng writes the story about how he turned into an apartment slave (zh) in my1510: in September 2007, within a month, the value of the apartment has increased two hundred thousand yuans; in October it dropped below the original price and he dare not looking at the housing market...
China: Digging Very Yellow, Very Violent
As Very Yellow, Very Violent has become a most popular phrase in the Internet, a new website, hen huang hen baoli has been set up to dig “very yellow, very violent” web content. It seems that the readers prefer yellow and violent content from official websites.
China: 30 Years Of Open Policy Reform
Ai Wei Wei wrote in early January about his feelings and frustration on the 30 year anniversary of open policy reform in China: One World but without democracy, One dream but all about money thirst (zh).
Taiwan: Micro Blogging
Fred blogs about his experience in playing with a new micro blog platform: soup.io. The blogger points out that it is a better tool for bridging media (mobile phone and internet), and it is a further step away from traditional media as micro blogging is usually an add on editing...
China 2007: Part2
Here is a personal roundup of what marked mainland China's 2007, a year of controversies, changes, desperation but also hopes.
China: Citizen reporter killed—by who?
What began as a protest against a planned urban trash dump encroaching on a residential area held by the villagers there in Tianmen, Hubei province became a murder story after the city management officers moved from beating the residents to attacking passerby Wei Wenhua, the would-be citizen journalist filming the...
China: University School Fee
Some scholars suggested that China should raise university school fee as the poor only constitutes 10% of the university population, government subsidy is sponsoring the rich. Wei Yinjie from my1510 points out that at present the wealth redistribution mechanism is not functioning and the income disparity political, not caused by...
China: Top Ten “Very Yellow, Very Violent”
Nings blog picks up top ten “Very Yellow, Very Violent” websites, some are official news and information websites, such as sina and xinhua. ESWN has the translation.
China: Destroying Corpse
Not only did the Hubei Tianmen City management team murdered Wei Wenhua, the police tried to rob his corpse in order to suppress the event. Izaobao describes that as Power Anomie (zh).
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