Stories about China from July, 2005
China Herald
Fons Tuinstra points out that the South China Morning Post seems to be vastly overestimating the number of bloggers in China.
Weekly Zeitgeist » Blog Archive » MSN Sapce close its blogger’s account
The Weekly Zeitgeist, a blog that covers the Chinese blogosphere, notes in this article that MSN spaces has unilaterally shut down at least one Chinese blogger's account without explaination nor...
WoW: We Observe the World
The Chinese student group blog We Observe the World has some Chinese reaction to last week's London bombings.
EastSouthWestNorth: In Praise of Chinese Peasant Riots
EastSouthWestNorth has a thought-provoking post on the growing problem of Chinese peasant riots.
Flickr Pick from Beijing
“Beijing Transport” by Petri
Danwei on Zheng He
Danwei reports that the Chinese media has been buzzing about Zheng He, the great 15th-century adventurer. For context, here's his Wikipedia article.
Podcast: Chinese bloggers interview each other
Chinese blogger Haxi (left) has interviewed the Hangzhou-based blogger, Leylop (right), one of the early Chinese bloggers to blog in English. Here is Leylop's account of the intervew. You can...
Those who dare: I would like to announce my resignation from the Communist Party of China
The Chinese blog Those Who Dare notes that the banned-in-China newspaper the Epoch Times has been publishing articles that list important people who have resigned from the Communist Party. Unfortunately,...
Mao's lookalike dies, and gets a propaganda nip and tuck (angrychineseblogger.blog-city.com)
Angry Chinese Blogger notes that an actor famed for playing the Great Helmsman, Chairman Mao died recently. He notes that the Chinese press coverage leaves out a number of less-savory...
Pacific Rim and East Asia Friday Blog Roundup
Jinja, who writes the Cambodian blog Webbed Feet, Web log notes the irony that his former boss had only recently left Siem Reap, where the international school had a hostage...
Pacific Rim and East Asia Thursday Blog Roundup
Bloggers.sg, Singapore's upcoming blog conference, gets a short write-up in the Straits Times, reports Mr.Brown. Japanpundit reports that, for the first time, an iced green tea beverage will probably beat...
Pacific Rim/East Asia Daily Blog Roundup
Tomorrow.sg announces that Bloggers.sg, the upcoming Singaporean Blogger Conference, has a new venue, as the old one was too small. They also posted an updated conference schedule for the July...
Pacific Rim/East Asian Daily Blog Roundup
Danwei reports that a state-owned film company's website has been blocked inside China… because they failed to register the site with the Ministry of Information Industries. Fons Tuinstra writes about...
Monday Pacific Rim/East Asia Blog Roundup
Mr.Brown reports that Singapore’s most popular Chinese-language broadsheet ran a feature article about Singaporean bloggers and their upcoming conference. Malaysian blogger Kenny Sia has his own particular take on the...
Chinese bloggers react to registration deadline
Laohumiao (老虎庙) at 24HoursOnline describes his frustrating efforts to figure out whether and how he should register, given that his blog is hosted on Blogbus, which is registered as his...
Friday Global Blog Roundup
We’re always looking for new ideas and good stories to write about. If you have a story or a blog post that you think would be a good fit for...
