Stories about China from November, 2006
China: What pols blog, where subways end
Hexun blogger Guan Jiantao on a city in eastern China's Jiangsu province, where twelve senior government leaders were told to take up blogging, in their own names, following the flood of feedback to municipal Party Secretary Zhang Shixin's recent blog post, in which he criticized the hygiene, spitting, littering, picking...
China: Videos emerge of clashes between police and students in Jiangxi
Hot on the heels of the Chinese government's claim of a 22.1% reduction in “mass incidents” (read “protests”), here's some more video of “mass incidents” from China, in case you missed this portion of John Kennedy's latest Beijing bulletin: Backing up to China late last month, students at one technical...
China, South Korea, Japan and Taiwan: acquittal rate
Chinese law prof blog compares acquittal rate among China, U.S, South Korea, Japan and Taiwan.
China: Three Rules for Foreign Tourists at Three Gorge Dam
ESWN translates and puts together articles about the arrest of tourists at Three Gorge Dam. To prevent from getting arrest, tourists have to follow the three princples: You must not meet, mention or take photos of the 1 million people displaced by the Three Gorge Dam project.
China: police state
Ai Wei Wei reports on a police operation in Beijing Fengtai district in which 500 polices had arrested 800 people for checking their identities. The blogger criticizes the police state practice as violation of harmony and human rights (zh).
China: harmony rights
The President of China University of Political Science and Law claimed that harmony rights is the fourth generation human rights concept, the first three stages are: liberation, survival and development (zh). Wang Xiao feng said that such claim looks like a political spoof (zh).
Arabisc: Plagiarism, Arrests, Bans and Democracy!
The Arabs are as usual busy this week debating anything and everything, from plagiarism to the arrest of bloggers, and from banning public meetings to embarrising George Bush Senior at a conference held in the UAE. Ahmed from Egypt had always wanted to become a journalist. But because not all...
Kenya: dealing with China is risky
Kumekucha asks, “Does Kenya know what she is doing dealing with China?”
China and Africa: African, our brothers
Little bridge has a translation of a blogpost “African, our brothers”, written by a Chinese diaspora Zhai Hua, on his encounter with Africans.
China and U.S: homeland insecurity
One Man Bandwidth blogs about the difficulties in visa application for going to study in U.S from China: We are sending China huge amounts of cash, keeping them out of our country and then demonizing them for the deficit.
China: dog eats dog tourism
Joel Martinsen in DANWEI blogs about the notorious tourism industry featured in a magazine, Oriental Outlook: the conclusion the articles seem to make is that change in the industry really depends on the tourists themselves…
China: modern peasants
Lyn Jeffery in virtual China introduces two peasant websites in China. Both sites are rather visible on net.
China: India
Been a busy week for Chinese President Hu Jintao, first in Vietnam and now in India, and just what for? asks Hexun blogumnist Liu Dingcai: 胡哥访印度可以学什么 What can big brother Hu learn in India? 中国国家主席胡锦涛11月20日抵达印度首都新德里，开始对印度进行国事访问；２１日胡锦涛在新德里海德拉巴宫同印度总理曼莫汉&S226;辛格举行会谈，双方就发展中印战略合作伙伴关系达成重要共识。（据《人民日报》) China's national chairman Hu Jintao arrived in the Indian capitol New Delhi on November 20...
China: CCTV's political culture
China Media project reports that the resignation of popular sports commentator, Huang Jianxiang, has stirred up audiences’ frustration to CCTV's political culture.
Africa: new scramble for Africa
Who will emerge the winner in the new scramble for Africa? Kameelah asks.
China: year of spoof
Zhao Mu suggests in his blog that 2006 should be the year of spoof in China, spoofs come not only from internet, but also from the government (zh).
China: sex tape and corruption
A Chinese actress, Zhang Yu, showed 20 tapes to media of her having sex with famous Chinese directors and actors. DANWEI has the details. Wang Xiao feng's judgement is that there is commercial interest behind the event, the whole issue is a show (zh).
China: apart from dog, what else?
Positive solution posts a question concerning the one dog policy in China: If you start banning dogs on the grounds that they are potentially dangerous and a public nuisance, why stop there? Here are a few things that I’d give the same treatment…
China: banking regulation
Survived SARS comments upon the newly released banking regulations in China: at first glance, they appear to provide more leeway for foreign banks to compete than was originally expected…
China: wikipedia blocked, unblocked and reblocked
The news about Chinese wikipedia has been confusing. On Nov 13, it was widely accessible, on Nov 16, partial inaccessible, on Nov 17, a reblocked was confirmed and appeared more restrictive – Andrew Lih has the most elaborated update.
Hong Kong: from hit rates to narratives
ESWN has some reflections upon his blogging: but at some point, I ought to develop some opinion or the other after recording ten thousand data points…I believe that there is some room for building up narratives from the ground up.
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