Stories about China from July, 2008
China: Insulting Olympics
Anti-CNN starts to monitor overseas organizations which produce images that insult the Beijing Olympics. A spotted case is the Sweden youth red cross.
China: Another Friend Missing at MSN
Mo Zhi xu missed another friend, Du Dao-bin, at his MSN list before the Olympics. Du has to stay in prison for 2 years and 5 months because of his online writings.
China: A 50 Cent Party Case Study
ESWN notices a 50 cent action in the the Weng'an Incident.
China: How you feeling about the Olympics?
Joel at Fool's Mountain recently took to the street where he lives in Beijing neighbor city Tianjin to ask locals what they think about next month's Olympics. He took video of it all, and has even added translated subtitles. Check it out.
China: Tianjin People's View on Olympics
Joel posts a video on Tianjin’s LaoBaiXing's view (common people) on the significance of Olympics.
China: 10 Political Myths
Ran Yunfei listed out 10 political myths in China, such as talks about savior, people, liberation, election, and etc.
China: Right Activists Arrested in Earthquake Zone
Ran Yun-fei re-posted a joint letter protesting against the arrest of Huang Qi and other right activists in Sichuan earthquake areas. The excuse of the arrest is “illegal possession of state secret”.
Colombia: Freedom March Around the World
After the rescue of 15 high profile hostages held in the FARC's power on July 2nd 2008, the same group that organized the last global march on February 4th against the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) decided that there should be a another one on July 20th, the day when Colombia's Independence from Spain is celebrated. The following videos and photographs show the way this Independence celebration and liberation march was celebrated around the world, and also some of the contrasting thoughts regarding the meaning of nation and freedom.
China: Bloggers take stand against web activist's arrest
"We would hate to see this case become yet another dismal human rights record raising international attention in the midst of this Olympic year. We regret to suspect, however, that the Chengdu police are at present committed to doing as much."
China: Looking back at a campus shooting
“...the first few days with the cast were really strange, everyone kept whispering to each other wondering if I was a big kung fu master back in China.” Why does it always have to be so awkward when Chinese and Americans get together?
China: Olympics side-effect on industry
What will be the cost of presenting an unprecedented Olympics? A dialogue between a blogger and workers somewhat revealed the predicament met by heavy industry in China during the Games.
Korea: Chopsticks… Rather Complicated…
Why does Korea use iron for chopsticks while other chopsticks countries use wooden materials? What is the history of the use of chopsticks? When do kids learn how to use it? Hyejin Kim answer these and other questions about this ancient eating utensil.
China: Mass Incident in Huizhou
Buxi blogs some images about the most recent mass incident in Huizhou.
China: Olympic Intellectual Property Right
Two cold gets the information that in order to protect intellectual property right, bloggers can't do live video cast nor post Olympic photos on their blogs. Moreover, there are other measure to protect Olympic sponsors, some ads with Olympic sport players as spoke person would be blocked during Olympics.
Japan: Chinese Novelist wins Akutagawa Award
On Tuesday, the Akutagawa Award for Fiction, considered the most prestigious literary prize in Japan, was awarded to Chinese novelist Yang Yi for her work, “Tokiga nijimu asa”. Yang, who was born in Harbin and whose native language is Chinese, learned Japanese after she came to Japan in 1987. In this post, reactions to the award in Japanese and Chinese media, blogs and forums.
China: Yang Jia Harmonized
Lui Xiaoyuan got the message from Sohu blog editor that articles about cop killer Yang Jia have become sensitive and some of those have to be blocked.
China: Government Response to Weng'an Incident
Thalia Kwok from Shanghaiist blogs about the change of strategy in Chinese government's response to Weng'an incident.
China: Naked Government Official
Li Yin-he re-posted an article about “naked government officials” which refers to (quite often corrupted) officials whose family members have migrated overseas. According to the article, there are 1,080,000 overseas Chinese who are relatives of these “naked officials”.
China: Tiananmen Security Check
Huang An-nian has a strong feeling that the security in Tiananmen has become stricter before Beijing Olympics.
China and U.S: American Sarcasm Towards China
Maryannodonnell criticizes an esquire article on Shenzhen, in particular, its sarcastic stereotypes about the city.
China: Olympic Condom
Consumer products in China try very hard to capture the Olympic concept in their product. This Olympic condom ads has become rather popular in the internet.
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