· February, 2006

Stories about China from February, 2006

Google and Microsoft in China, Revisited

Mathew Stinson gives a comprehensive review of the recent discussions in the blogosphere on Google and Microsoft's censorship in China. He argues that Microsoft is commiting a bigger sin than...

13 February 2006

The Cost of Unification

Jerome Keating guest-posts on The Peking Duck on the potential social and economic costs of Taiwan's unification with Mainland China. Without touching on political costs, Jerome points out that the...

13 February 2006

Lesser of Two Evils

ESWN discusses which is the lesser of two evils in terms of blog censorship: MSN Spaces which follows the orders of the Chinese government, or China's own BSPs?

11 February 2006

Collectively At Hyundai In China

Jamie on Two Koreas considers it significant that the All China Federation of Trade Unions is pressuring for a collective bargaining agreement at Hyundai's China operation , even though China...

10 February 2006

Taiwan Strikes Back, With Pixels

Tim Maddog on Indiac rebukes China's claims of being “peaceful” in a recent white paper, by citing Taiwan's white paper on China's rise and adding his own commentary.

10 February 2006

Who Is “Better”?

John at Sinosplice is not sure how to best explain to his Chinese students in English “the difference between ‘value to society’ and ‘inherent human worth’“. Readers debate whether this...

10 February 2006

China Is 80 Years Behind

Simon World points to an amusing new study published in People's Daily (the official propagand mouthpiece of the Chinese government) today. The study, conducted by the Chinese Academy of Sciences,...

9 February 2006

All Yahoo!'s Fault?

The Western media are condemning Yahoo! again for handing over the personal account information of Li Zhi to the Chinese government. Li Zhi was sentenced to 8 years in jail...

9 February 2006

A Different Kind of Fight in China

ESWN translates and sums up the reporting from 5 newspapers on a different kind of “mass incident” in Zhanjiang, China. More than 500 villagers were involved in a fight with...

8 February 2006

China, Taiwan: Animal Talk

Pinyin News goes from discussing an article about how birds can distinguish between Japanese and Mandarin Chinese to China's announcement that it was teaching Taiwanese to pandas it wants to...

8 February 2006

Malaysia, China: A Hokkien Tale

Ktemoc Konsiders retells a story from the Chinese Ming Dynasty about how sugar canes saved the Hokkien, from whom many Chinese Malaysians are descended. “Since that fateful day, the Hokkiens...

6 February 2006

China, Hong Kong: Self-Reflection

EastSouthWestNorth translates a column by China blogger Michael Anti praising EastSouthWestNorth‘s heroic translations of Chinese media reports: “If the Chinese blogosphere can be said to be like the world of...

3 February 2006

Hong Kong, China: Violent Thought

Glutter reprises a conversation she had with a person opposed to democracy in Hong Kong and who worried opposition weakens the Chinese government. She writes: “I asked him how did...

2 February 2006

China: What Does China Want?

Sun Bin critiques a writer who lays out the six goals of the Chinese leadership. “They are in fact sub-goals of one simple goal: to feed its 1.3bn people and...

2 February 2006

China: Exporting Language

What's China's hottest export? Language! says Horse's Mouth. “I always laugh to myself when I speak with fellow business majors and they tell me they're studying a language such as...

1 February 2006

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