Stories about China from September, 2005
North Korea: Business as usual
NKZone wraps up the aftermath of Monday's North Korean nuclear agreement, saying Pyongyang has already reneged on the Beijing statement.
China, Japan: Hitler comparisons
Danwei translates a recent article by a Chinese political commentator using a comparisons with Hitler, in what Chinese analysts are increasingly viewing as a “remilitarization” of Japan in the wake of the landslide election victory for Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and his Liberal Democratic Party earlier this month.
China: Yahoo debate continues
The debate over Yahoo!'s actions in China rumbles on in the blogosphere, with China Herald examining whether the company had a way out of the situation it found itself in with regard to cyber-dissident Shi Tao.
China: Taishi protests
China Digital Times has a photo, courtesy of Duowei.com, of angry residents of Taishi village in the southern province of Guangdong, protesting official intransigence in the face of corruption allegations.
China: What's on wiki
Hailey Xie has set up a wiki for people to add their knowledge of forthcoming events around China.
China: Panyu protest
EastSouthWestNorth posts a long essay about why the land dispute and re-election of the village committee in the Guangdong village of Taishi is worth taking the trouble to follow.
China: blogging with Chinese characteristics
EastSouthWestNorth compares blogging in China to the U.S. and Hong Kong. He explains why internet bulletin boards are more influential than blogs in China.
China: High suicide rate
HKDave picks up on a report about the lack of trained mental-health professionals in China, and the high proportion of rural women among the country's suicides.
North Korea: Translation issue
Oranckay “re-translates” the English version of the statement issued by the six-parties to the Korean nuclear talks.
North Korea: Nuke-free pledge
One Free Korea takes apart, in a point-by-point analysis, the unexpected announcement that North Korea will give up its nuclear weapons program in exchange for security and assistance guarantees from the other five parties to the China-brokered talks.
What Happen to Skype in China?
Skype, the successful VOIP program which has earned international reputation is said to be blocked in China for economical reasons, at least in the southeast city of Shenzhen by China Telecom, the largest ISP (Internet Service Provider) in mainland China. Skype has been in a joint adventure with its Chinese...
China: Beijing tabloid
Danwei highlights the front page of the tabloid Beijing News, which features a photo of corrective surgery being performed on a three-legged hermaphrodite baby.
China: Shanghai blogger moot
China Herald posts a photo from last night's meeting of Shanghai bloggers, linking to participant Brocco Li's account of the event.
China: Guangdong to close mines
China Digital Times notes, via the People's Daily, that the authorities in the southern province of Guangdong are to close all coal-mines following a flooding disaster at the Daxing coal-mine earlier this year.
China: Trial of Huang Jingao
EastSouthWestNorth reports on the trial of former Lianjiang county Party Secretary Huang Jingao, best known for a letter he once wrote to the People's Daily online edition entitled “Why I Wore a Bullet-Proof Vest For Six Years”.
China: Male model on Xinhua
Danwei notes that Xinhua news agency has published a series of tastefully decorated nude photos of top male model Hu Bin on its “Inner Mongolia Channel”, as a counterpoint to its more commonly seen images of semi-clad women.
China: Fired editor to write online column
The former editor of Guangdong's cutting-edge Southern Metropolis News, Cheng Yizhong, has been invited by Sohu.com to write a daily commentary on Chinese newspapers, reports Sophie Beach at China Digital Times.
China: Shanghainese in Beijing
Bingfeng Teahouse tells tales of being a Shanghainese in Beijing.
China: State Secrets
Danwei has a rather cynical (and somewhat racy) post on what is and isn't a Chinese state secret.
China: Murder Case
ESWN translates an article about “hottest subject on the Chinese Internet recently:” The Case of Wang Binyu.
China: War atrocities
Bingfeng points to a Chinese-language discussion of Japanese wartime atrocities. He compares Chinese historical memories of the Rape of Nanking to Japanese historical memories of Hiroshima, and asks: is Hiroshima nuke fabricated by Japanese? (Warning: very disturbing descriptions.)
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