Stories about China from March, 2007
Japan: Where are the Japanese comfort women?
Ampontan translates a post written by Kiyotani in response to the recent debate about Abe's claim that there was “no evidence” that the recruitment of “comfort women” had been “forcible in the narrow sense of the word”.: I really wonder why no one is talking about the Japanese comfort women....
China: police post on Shangfang
Ai Weiwei transforms a deleted post in Sinablog into photo files. The post is written by a police Wu Yuo-ming from Wubei, who gave detailed account of his experience in “stopping” people from Shangfang (visiting the higher authority to file complaint). The police pointed out that such kind of practice...
Taiwan: The future of Chiang Kai-Shek Memorial Hall
On March 2, 2007, Executive Yuan, Taiwan, decided to change the name of ‘Chiang Kai-Shek Memorial Hall‘ to ‘Taiwan Democracy Memorial Hall’ and to remove the enclosing walls to make the area around the memorial hall a more open public space. To keep the integrity of Chiang Kai-Shek Memorial Hall,...
China: Euthanasia blog
Jeremy Goldkorn from DANWEI introduces an Euthanasia blog written by a 28 years old woman, Li Yan, who has been suffering form cancer since very young age.
China: egao
Onemanbandwidth has a nice article on egao (spoofing) culture.
China: rural village
A photo essay to explore the rural problem in China by Lung at inmediahk.net (zh).
China: Who Painted the Mountain Green?
ESWN translates three reporters account of their different versions of report on the Yunan's artificial “green mountain”.
China: one yuan cn domain
Yee ya comments on the one yuan cn domain marketing strategy of China Internet Network Information Center: Each domain will still cost 80 to 100 yuan a year in subsequent years, so many people register just for fun.Can you count on them to help the development of China Internet?
China: Thirsty
Michael in the Opposite end of China writes about water crisis in China, with reference to some discussion in recent People Congress meeting.
China: People's Conferences
If you've been following the glorious progress being made in this year's rounds of the parliamentary-ish National People's Congress and the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, where members of China's government and military from across the country meet in the highest halls of power, make proposals and decide the future...
China: casino stock market
One of the most outspoken People Congress representatives, Hung Ke-zhu criticised that the Chinese stock market has been a biggest casino, and within China Securities Regulatory Commission, there are members making use of information for their own benefits – more from Xue yong (zh).
China: property law issue withdrawn
Caijing (a finance magazine in China) has been forced to withdraw its latest issue on “Property Law” because the special issue had addressed the controversial nature of the Law, Zuo Ai zhong explained in his blog (zh).
China and Japan: comfort woman
Granite Studio comments on Japan Prime Mininister Abe's recent comments on “comfort woman”: Is history, and especially history education, nothing more than rhetoric and tales in the service of national self-esteem?
China: 10 blogging mistakes
Kuang feng blogs about 10 things that should be avoided in blogging (zh), including: 1. seldom update; 2. blogging for money; 3. too rush; 4. not personal blog; 5. copycat; 6. not responding to comments; 7. no full text RSS; 8. no contact with other bloggers; 9. writing for google;...
Hong Kong: IP legislation
Charles Mok repost his article for computer world on the recent government consultation of “Copyright Protection in the Digital Environment”: the issues raised in the paper are all about strengthening enforcement, with nothing about how consumer rights can be enhanced, or how innovation can be encouraged with these measures beyond...
Africa: China vs US
The Varsjinskij Prophecies sees a possible collision between China and the United States in Africa, “The fact that Hu’s visit and the announcement of AFRICOM coincided was most likely a coincidence. The Pentagon has been planning AFRICOM for years, and China’s involvement in Africa is hardly new. That said, it’s...
Japan and China: changing name of Woman's Day
A member of Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference suggests to Change the name of Fu-nu's Day (婦女節) to Nu-xin's Day (女性節), following Japan's example. Zhaihua points out(zh) that such change is unnecessary, because Nu-xin according to traditional Chinese, is more discriminative than Fu-nu.
China: The Faults of Qin
Granite Studio introduces an ancient writing “The Faults of Qin” from Han Dynasty that criticizes authoritarianism of Qin dynasty and conveys idea of balance power between the state and thoughtful people.
China: water issues
Dan Washburn at Shanghaiist puts up a map indicating areas in China that have water issues (such as dam construction, shortage of water, etc.)
China: livejournal dead
Several reports about China has blocked livejournal and Onemanbandwidth has a up -to-date summary of blocked blog hosting sites.
March of the censors: France, Turkey and China clamp down on freedom of speech
Two weeks ago, the French blog AgoraVox, one of the leading European citizen media blogs, warned against what it termed the gradual “berlusconisation” of the French media and the threat posed by the rise of Nicolas Sarkozy, French Minister of the Interior and conservative party head, to freedom of speech...