Posted in china, politics, tagged china, protest, riot, wengan, li shufen, reopen, case, guizhou, police, corruption on July 2, 2008 | 1 Comment »
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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‘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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Posted in china, politics, tagged china, li shufen, politics, protest, rape, riots, suicide, wang jiao, wengan on June 30, 2008 | 13 Comments »
First, a few links:
EastSouthWestNorth Summary
China Digital Times Summary
Reuters Report
Xinhua Report
A bunch of comments over at the Peking Duck
If you’re too lazy to click on the above links, here’s my own summary. A middle school girl is found dead. Her relatives went to the police to get answers, but didn’t get any. People protest and burn [...]
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Posted in china, economics, politics, tagged china, east asia, economics, greater east asia co-prosperity sphere, international relations, japan, korea, politics, taiwan on June 20, 2008 | 2 Comments »
A sense of community elusive in East Asia
The article above is pretty interesting in it’s criticism of Asian countries for failing to put aside the past and move forward as a community like what Europe did/is doing. Here’s an excerpt:
To be blunt, there is no community. Each of the major countries - China, Japan and [...]
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When is the right time to ask tough questions?
But how many questions do we still need to ask? Why did those schools collapse? Where did all of these dams come from? (The complicated cause and effect relationship between reservoirs and earthquakes has been hotly debated by experts). What kinds of hiccups were there in the [...]
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Posted in china, culture, earthquake, politics, tagged china, culture, earthquake, politics, protest, yu qiuyu on June 12, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Chinese author tells Wenchuan earthquake victims not to be tools for the west
When I first read this article, I thought this Yu Qiuyu guy was an absolute fucking idiot. Maybe the original in Chinese was better written and it’s all the translators fault for screwing up the original masterpiece, but it’s not only how the [...]
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Check out Blog for China for a bunch of stuff about the Tiananmen Massacre from some Chinese people’s point of view.
Here’s a little commemoration of Six Four by a Chinese Blogger.
CDT talks about how Mourning is banned.
There was this little memoir that I found in the UC Berkeley library written by a Peking University professor about [...]
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Posted in china, politics, tagged china, politics, protest, tiananmen massacre, june 4, tank man, ccp, 1989, students on June 3, 2008 | 4 Comments »
The 19th anniversary of the Tiananmen Massacre is tomorrow.
There are very few things that give me that painful twisty feeling in your stomach and that lump in your throat, but whenever I read or think about the Tiananmen Massacre, I get that feeling of pure sadness. All those naive students getting butchered, citizens mowed down [...]
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The west has generally perceived China to be a country without freedom. That’s why there’s always this talk about no human rights, police brutality, and government regulations over every little thing you do. When someone says this to a Chinese person, they would generally get a reply about how China is free and they never [...]
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Posted in china, culture, economics, olympics, politics, random, tagged china, olympics, politics, economics, yao ming, earthquake, hackers, democracy, sports, liu xiang, black taxi on May 28, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Alright, I kinda wanna talk about something other than the earthquake, so here are some random things I’ve been thinking about.
First of all, there’s sports. A lot of people in the United States like to call Yao Ming and Liu Xiang tools of the CCP. I mean they really don’t have much personality when compared to [...]
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