· October, 2006

Stories about China from October, 2006

China: labour law

  16 October 2006

The Chinese government has passed a new set of labour law, Alan Baumler at The China history group blog gives more background information about the role of official union and points out that these laws will not represent a change in the nature of Chinese unions and that these will...

China and Japan: Netizen

  16 October 2006

Jacky peng in Little bridge blogs about the difference between Chinese and Japanese net users on BBS.

China: Let your photos do the talking

  14 October 2006

While dealing with blocked pages and filter-trigger keywords can get pretty annoying on the wrong side of the internet, for bloggers in China who want some discussion on, say, the highest-level corruption crackdown in ten years, there are always ways to beat the system. This time it just happens that...

China: China telecom forced software

  13 October 2006

RFA reports that China telecom forced its ADSL clients to use a software, forcing people to receive advertisement. Human rights activists said that the side effects will be monitoring of internet traffic (zh).

China: the politics of spoof culture

  13 October 2006

An article written by me at interlocals.net on the cultural and political background of internet spoofs, especially in relation to the reinvention of the Red Classics (revolution propaganda films).

China: fairness and justice

  11 October 2006

Ai wei wei discusses the way how the government deal with fairness and justice by presenting two legal cases: Let us discuss fairness and equality, the foundations for social morality. Democracy and checks and balances are the basic conditions for guaranteeing fairness and justice. Short of these basic conditions, any...

China: digital sex

  11 October 2006

Wang Xiao-feng discusses about the fashion of “digital sex” writings and its potential impact on sex attitude in China (zh): some writers pretend to be experts in sex, but the writings are just pornographics.

China: Youth, too much free time

  11 October 2006

Obscurity is here to stay for the residents of a distant northern Chinese town, it seems, judging from a post this week from Chongqing-based blogger-journalist Ran Yunfei. 中国的县之多,从未听说过某一县,当然不足为奇。比如山西的方山县,我就从未听说过。但最近这个县的县委书记张国彪来了个铁腕政策,打着为保护未成年学生的幌子,关掉该县县城所有网吧,干涉商人经商之自由,以及人们了解信息之自由。还被许多人赞美,这真是滑天下之大稽。 There are many counties in China. To have never heard of a certain country is of course nothing strange. Shanxi‘s Fangshan county,...

China: school murder case

  11 October 2006

Liao Zusheng's son was beaten to death at school in Fushan. Liao opened a blog in sina claiming that his son was murdered by teachers and staffs because of his criticism on the school fee and administration in the newspapers. He pleads the central government to intervene. One man bandwith...

China: expelling the mentally ill for Olympic

  11 October 2006

After the plan of expelling rural migrant workers, Beijing government is preparing to expel “mentally ill” people out of the city before the Olympic. The angry Chinese blogger reminds us that “Beijing has a known history of using ‘mental illness’ as a political tool to silence protesters…”

Northeast Asia: Nuclear test

  10 October 2006

Sun bin blogs the google map on the North Korea Nuclear test and summarizes the test information. In South Korea, there were much discussions in the blogsphere (although I can only get access to English sources). Jodi observes her South Korean friends’ reactions the test: Not surprisingly, however, was the...

China: internationalization of movie

  8 October 2006

Feng Xiao-kang's latest movie “the Banquet” is aiming at the international market, with many international stars, such as Zhang Ziyi. However, local responses of the movie have been rather negative. Lu Na in mindmeters comments that Feng has lost his style in the process of internationalization. Instead of taking advantage...

China: celebrating national day

  8 October 2006

Absurd fool at interlocals.net reports about the politics of consumption during the national day holiday; Joel Martinsen in DANWEI translates a blog post on “National day in the age of angry youth”.

China: Fifty-three things you may not know

  8 October 2006

As if learning Chinese wasn't hard enough, did you know that all bloggers in China are security encryption experts? ‘An effective way to visit Wikipedia’ [zh]—which is blocked in China—from Bokee blogger KangKang: 现在,维基媒体提供了通过HTTPS协议安全上维基网站的方法。使用下面的连接: Wikimedia now offers a way to safely access Wiki websites via HTTPS. Use the following links:...

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