Stories about China from July, 2007
China: Nationwide newspapers website
Kuangfeng introduced a new website in China called AB Bao (zh). The website uploaded most of the local newspapers on the website on a daily base and you can read all of them on screen if you have the time.
China: University or Concentration Camp?
Kaie noticed that the Education Department in China has recently imposed a prohibition on university student from renting apartment outside campus. He laughed at the Department for managing university like concentration camp where there is no freedom for the matured students (zh).
China: Hunger and Human Right
Former head of foreign ministry Li Zhaoxing said in a public lecture in Beijing University that he had gone through hunger and therefore knew what is the meaning of human right. Zhao Mu commented ironically that China must be the strongest human right state in the world because we even...
Hong Kong: The Absence of De-Colonization
ESWN has translated an article by a local cultural critics Leung Man Tao concerning the Absence of De-Colonization in Hong Kong.
Hong Kong and China: Cross border citizen reporting
Chong from inmediahk.net has interviewed Zoula about his citizen reporting trip in Hong Kong, his obervation of the two societies (zh).
China: Cruise missile carted into Beijing
July 7 marked seventy years since the Second Sino-Japanese War began with the Marco Polo Bridge Incident. The day ostensibly started well, with a reconciliatory tone as Taiwanese and Chinese scholars just the day before had moved to team up on research into the resistance. Then, assuming this is related,...
China: Xiamen to kill off anonymous posting
Joel Martinsen from DANWEI has translated some local reports about Xiamen Bureau of Industry and Commerce's preparation to implement the use of real names on the Internet.
China: Forms of Protest
Alan Baumler from China History blog introduced Ching Kwan Lee’s book Against the Law: Labor Protests in China’s Rustbelt and Sunbelt, which discusses about labour protest forms.
China: Internet control after Xiamen protest
“Under a new city regulation, online users would have to use their real names when posting messages on more than 100,000 Web sites registered in Xiamen”, a Southern Chinese city where citizens used blogs, chatrooms and SMS to organize a protest against a planned construction of a toxic chemical plant.
China: robot fight robot
Douban's blog aggregator uses a technology to fetch the blog posts even the host is blocked, and the popularity of the post is determined by the reviews and recommendations it receives. All done by a software “robot” against another robot: Great Fire Wall. — More from Bingfeng
China: Female reporter fist fight
ESWN translated a blog post by a female reporter in a mainland local newspapers China Times, who got into a physical fight with a colleague during an editorial meeting. The reason had to do with plagiarism on a grand scale.
China: Beijing tap water drinkable?
Joel Martinsen from DANWEI translated a local report about drinkable Beijing tap water. However he also pointed out: the fact that the city's tap water is drinkable doesn't mean it's drinkable from the city's taps.
China: Slave and The Principle of Blood Payment
Joel Martinsen from DANWEI has translated an interview (in Southern Metropolis Weekly) with Wu Si, the writer of a popular social history book The Principle of Blood Payment, commenting on the recent slave labour issue in Shanxi: I wasn't surprised. These things aren't unique to Shanxi. Other provinces may have...
China and Hong Kong: What is freedom?
Cha ching came to Hong Kong to report on the 10th anniversary of reunification, her first question to address is what is freedom? dancing and horse racing as usual? citizen participation? government watch? debate? changing the bureaucratic attitude? playing majong? (zh)
China: Return to avoid GFW
1510.com has been blocked by GFW for a month. After changing its domain to .cn, it has been restored as local domain can apply for a “review” to lift the GFW (zh).
Hong Kong and China: Moving to Hong Kong
Positive Solution is moving from Beijing to Hong Kong. He has been critical of the news room operation in China Daily, such as the recent questioning of why no mention of the democracy march?
China: Pity the Child Pickpockets
Michael from the opposite end of China blogs about the modern version of Oliver Twist in China: Uyghur children were enslaved to do pickpocket.
China: Desertification
Jiao told the story of her home province in Gansu which would be buried soon by yellow sand because of intensified desertification (zh).
China: 3D animated traditional Chinese Painting
Jason puts up a 3D animated traditional Chinese Painting at virtual China: The video was produced by the Shenzhen branch of the Institute of Digital Media Technology (IDMT), which is associated with the Global Digital Creations (GDC). The GDC/IDMT group is located in Shenezhen, Shanghai, Hong Kong and Singapore.
China and Hong Kong: Cross border citizen reporting
Zola has come to Hong Kong to report on the 10th anniversary of reunification under the interlocals.net's international citizen reporter fellowship project. His first day report is about inmediahk.net and second day about the rallies on July 1 (zh).
Philippines: Early Chinese in Philippines
Senorenrique has images from a museum in Manila. The particular exhibit focuses on the lives of early Chinese settlers in the Philippines.
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