Stories about China from November, 2007
China: Golf Culture in University
Xueyong criticizes the golf culture in China university (zh). The blogger notices that for other countries, students enjoy sports that stresses physical competition, such as footballs and basketball, while golf is a showing off of class status.
China: Schoolmate Webites
Lui Ren blogs about his experience in a local SNS website called xiaonei.com. There are so far 2000 universities registered in the website. The blogger notices that there are 22,595 Anhui University alumni registered in xiaonei network while the university only has a population of 26,994 (zh).
China: Signature for Operation
A pregnant woman was sent to the Beijing hospital. Even though she didn't have any money, the hospital was willing to give a free operation as she and her unborn baby were in a critical condition. However, her husband refused to sign the operation paper, eventually the woman and the...
China: Yangcheng Lake's Hairy Crab
Imagethief blogs about his recent trip to Yangcheng lake, a place where hairy crab is planted.
China: Child Labour?
The Opposite End of China criticizes the Congressional Executive Commission on China for putting cotton picking under the child labour section.
China: Dongbei Tiger Eaten by Other Tigers in the Zoo
Yao ronggui urges for more attention to the news about a Dongbei Tiger being killed and eaten by other four tigers in the Zoo (zh). Obviously the tigers were very hungry. The blogger also posts the news report video.
China: Arrested and Beaten for Being a Poor Peasant Worker
A peasant worker was arrested and beaten by local police in Guangzhou because he was dressed poorly. The story was first posted at hqj's blog and Liu Xiao yuan pointed out that similar cases happen all over China. The poor are not protected in the present system.
China: Bullog International
The Chinese Blog Service Provider Bullog has been closed for more than a month by now and they are yet to wait for the official approval document for re-opening the site. To save time, the Bullog international has been launch. Danwei has a translation of their launching note.
China: Loong not Dragon
Lanzhou city urged to standardize the translation of Chinese dragon into “Loong” as the two words convey very different imagine. Zishuo suggests to translate the word into “Yoooooog” as the word carries the horns, reflects the length and shows the tails of the Chinese dragon.
China: Mars Language
Lu ren is so frustrated about the sensitive words censorship that he starts to explore the application of Mars language (zh): a combination of Chinese words and Pinyin. For example, “i” stands for “love” in Chinese.
China: Bankrupt ant farmers prepare to protest
Shenyang was mobbed today with furious ex-ant farmers, former employees of Yilishen, a media darling and one of China's most well-known brands in the health supplement market, as the company has just closed, taking the huge amounts its peasant-class employees had invested with it. The city's ant farming industry is...
China: Bloggers bust another really big lie
One of the less glamorous side-effects of censorship, the impact the 17th Communist Party National Congress had on Chinese media made a faked photograph of a rare tiger the top story throughout the Chinese blogsphere for the entire past month. The whole affair ended this weekend when an obscure blogger...
China: Writing Together
Kuanfeng introduces (zh) a website 17xie.com that encourage users to write together. The website provides help to publication with real papers.
China: Social Stability via Negotiation
Sun Liping argues that it is rather unlikely for China to face major social turmoil nowadays (zh) because the market economy has divert social conflicts and there aren't any major ideological struggles. It is, therefore, necessary to set up mechanism for solving conflicts of interest among different social groups.
China: Labour Contract Law and Huawei's Violation
Chris O'Brien has a detailed post on how the news about a local company, Huawei’s decision to “ask” 7,000 of its employees who had been working for the company for eight years or more to resign had been harmonized in the mainstream media. Huawei's action is seen as a way...
China: Professor Shot to Death by Police
Liu Xiaoyuan comments on a recent news about an assistant professor being shot to death in Guangzhou city by local police (zh). According to the police report, the gunshot was a self defense act as a police was dragged by the professor's car (with a fake military car number) for...
China: Doctoral Student Accuses SARFT of Movie Censorship
Dong Yanbin, a doctoral student in China University of Political Science and Law (CUPL), accused Beijing UME international movie theater and the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television (SARFT) of castrating Ang Lee’s blockbuster Lust,Caution, Jinghua Times reported on Wednesday. His accusation had inflamed a new tide of online criticism on SARFT.
China: Democrat claims he was forced out of election
It's election season in China again, and so far that means at least one accusation of vote-fixing against independent candidates; this time it's a retired professor in eastern China's Shandong province who sought to run on the populist vote.
Taiwan: UN for Taiwan
Holly blogs about the campaign for Taiwan to get UN membership.
China: Imitating Lust, Caution
Kenneth Tan from Shanghaiist translated local news on how movie fans found joy in imitating sexual positions in Lust, Caution.
Environment: Bloggers on Energy, and The Zero Africa Rally
Several bloggers deftly tackled energy issues, from nuclear energy, ideas of ‘plug and play power’, China's ‘Clean Ambitions’ and Green data centers. Be it South Africa, China or America, the energy question has got bloggers thinking of solutions. Ian Gilfillan asks “Why is anybody still considering nuclear?”. He looks at...
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