Beijing Olympic Volunteers

It’s been a while since I’ve written, but here’s something that’s been bothering me for a while now: the Beijing Olympic Volunteers.
So there are several levels of volunteers that I’m aware of.
The lowest level is made up of middle and high school students who are wearing the China Mobile shirts and have to stand in [...]

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Dissident Blogs

Bloggers Take a Stand
It must be really hard to be a dissident blogger in China. I mean first there’s the obvious difficulties and risks of saying the wrong thing and being herded off to some reeducation facility or getting flamed by a horde of government paid commenters (as well as the online Mob on occasion). [...]

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Yuhuan Riot

Migrant Workers Attack Police Station
So here’s another riot, though not nearly as big as the one in Weng’an. It has something to do with a migrant worker ‘colliding with a wall’ and the a bunch of other migrant workers beating up the police.
I’ve actually been to this Yuhuan county, though not the town itself where the [...]

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Doing Push-ups and Wengan Censorship

关我鸟事，我出做三个俯卧撑
So the online community seems to have won another victory (the previous one was where the government admitted that the picture of the Chinese Southern Tiger was a fake) over government corruption and censorship after a bunch of Wengan officials got sacked and the case got reopened. Here’s a summary of online stuff going on [...]

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奥运加油中国加油你的头

中国加油
I watched this CCTV special on how to cheer just the other day. I guess the Chinese officials are all afraid that their uncivilized and uncultured people will make China lose face during the Olympics since they don’t know how to cheer so they had to create an ‘official Olympic cheer’ as well as a [...]

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Reopening the Wengan Case

Chinese police reopen investigation into girl’s death after huge protests
Police defend riot measures in SW China protests
The Chinese government has announced that they are reopening the case of the girl that died of a supposed suicide in Wengan. From The Guardian:
It quoted a vice-chief of the county, Xiao Song, as saying a preliminary investigation had [...]

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Boycott Kung Fu Panda

‘Artist’ calls for Pandaland boycott of Kung Fu Panda
So I wrote recently about how much I enjoyed Kung Fu Panda and soon afterwards, I was informed that there was some kind of boycott being organized in Sichuan over the movie. I dismissed this as just rumors on the internet for a while until I finally [...]

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