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Category Archives: politics
Ren Zhiqiang remarks on the state of real estate in China
Though not quite as famous as Jackie Chan, Ren Zhiqiang has also been making some controversial remarks at the BO AO forum. The remarks that got people riled up are as follows “房价到底涨了多少？1978年，我们的GDP大概3000多亿，现在是30多万亿，增加了100多倍。第二，我们1978年月工资全国平均28.6元，到现在也增加了100倍。1978年我们大白菜2分钱一颗，现在2块钱，也增加了100倍。我们房价只增加了16.6倍，和工资收入相比，相差太远了。和工资收入比30年来房子等于没涨价。” [how much have real estate prices really … Continue reading
Movies I’m Watching: The Reader
[spoiler alert] Kate Winslet, as well all know, has had a big year with Revolutionary Road and The Reader. Both are decent films that I really would like to cheer for, though they never seem to reach beyond the B+ … Continue reading
Movies I’m Watching: Paris Nous Appartient
Well, after taking a look at the blurb on the DVd cover and feeling in the mood for some black and white Nouvelle Vague classics, i decided to get this one…and was quite disappointed. The themes treated in the movie, … Continue reading
Movies I’m watching: Bill Maher’s Religulous
I suppose that BIll Maher’s ego has gotten the best of him and he decided, that he just HAD to make a movie and somehow contribute to the demise of organized religion, which he believes is one of the greatest … Continue reading
Qin Hui interview from Southern Metropolis Weekly: social justice and the urban poor in China
These are some excerpts that I translated from the original article in Chinese. 人物周刊：现在有一个现象，就是在城郊结合部农村集体所有制的土地上，建起了很多村民建的房，一租30年，相当于商品房。许多城里人因为买不起城里的房子，会向那边流动，把外来务工者可以租住的农民房的价格又抬高了。 秦晖：对，这个是国际上贫民住房的一个非常重要的问题。实际上政府也没有驱赶穷人，但是贫民区住的人多，价格抬高，穷人住不起就都走掉了。这是市场经济带来的问题，我觉得还是要靠国家福利来解决。 NFZK: Recently there’s been a phenomenon of city people moving outwards towards the countryside, living in homes that were intended for migrant workers and peasants, … Continue reading
Books I’m Reading: Paris: The Secret History
I looked up the word “flaneur” in the index of hte boojks and skipped straight to it: I’d heard this term first in books by and about Walter Benjamin, and the idea of these urban wanderers–poets, wastrels, misfits, outsiders, rebels–was … Continue reading
Life, books, literature, poetry, politics
19th c., balzac, baudelaire, culture, flaneur, history, intellectuals, literature, paris, poems, poetry, poets, revolution, secret, war, writers
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BBC: Shanghai to curb rights of dissidents during Olympics?
Saw this report from last week on the BBC Chinese news web page, which is blocked in China but which I finally got to work using the web proxy Gumm.org A Hong Kong human rights organizations said that Fa Lun … Continue reading
China, universal values, democracy
Skimming the Chinese media, I’ve seen a lot of cyber ink spilled on the issue of a debate on “universal values” that erupted between the Southern (Nanfang) group newspapers (don’t know off the top of my head which one of … Continue reading
The anti-maglev protesters in Shanghai were given OK for protest on March 1…will it happen?
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Protesters scuffle with supporters of Rabin’s assassin outside jail
Leftwing and rightwing activists scuffled Sunday outside the Rimonim Prison, where the killer of former prime minister Yitzhak Rabin held his son’s circumcision on the 12th anniversary of the assassination. Members of the left-of-center Meretz party gathered outside the Rimonim … Continue reading