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China: How Wang Xiaofeng encounters Time

Written byOiwan Lam
Posted 11 January 2007 19 years ago

Raymond Zhou translates Wang Xiaofeng's self mocking post explaining how he became Time's person of the year.

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  • Pingback: Global Voices Online » Blog Archive » China: People’s Conferences

    […] ‘One look and you know these people sleep a lot,’ reads the caption given the photo by blogger Wang Xiaofeng. And his readers? 会不会是写提案累的？ Maybe they’ve proposed themselves to sleep? 好像每年他们都是这么睡着开会的 反正醒着也做不了什么事 I think they slept through all the meetings last year too But even if they wake up there’s not a lot they can do 如果他们平时都这样的话，和谐社会很快就实现了。 If they were always like this, society would harmonize a lot more quickly. […]

    10 March 2007, 16:05 pm

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