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Tag Archives: China
The two year old cigarette smoking boy of Chongqing
This is one that has been making the rounds on the internets. Most people are understandably pissed off about it. Not sure what to say about this: not really the moment for cultural criticism. Most of what can be said … Continue reading
Recent pictures from Anchang, Sichuan
I spent the week or so prior to the chinese new year in Anchang and the Beichuan area, which was one of the hardest hit and in which there are many quake victims living in temporary housing. I talked a … Continue reading
More on social unrest in China, 2008.
I was just reading an article about the social unrest that has plagued China in 2008, and it says, in the title that the problem lies with the government competing with the people’s interests, that is, the government has, if … Continue reading
CCP: we’re stupid, it was the economy
I was reading an essay on People.com.cn about another essay: Here is what the People essay says about the original, which was written by aguy from one Zhou Tianyong, a scholar at the Party School*: 文章总结说，由于革命胜利后，党没有从一个工作中心为阶级斗争的“革命党”转变为一个工作中心为经济建设的执政党，对怎样搞社会主义经济建设并不熟悉，学习了苏联模式，而且在资源配置方式上实行了计划经济，生产资料所有制形式上采取了一大二公的国有制、城镇集体所有制和农村人民公社社队体制，在对外关系上走了自我封闭的道路，发展上倾斜于国防工业和重工业。其结果是劳动生产效率较低，科技人员和企业没有创新和技术进步的动力来源，技术进步缓慢，投资建设浪费较大，与整个世界各国经济社会发展的差距越来越大。可以这样评价：建国后的30年里，在全球经济社会发展的竞争中，我们走了弯路，延误了时机。 Which more or less … Continue reading
Hangzhou subway tunnel collapse: problems discovered a month ago
This CNN article has the number of dead pegged at 4 but it seems that now the official number of dead has risen to five. What makes the whole thing much much worse is the fact that, according to one … Continue reading
Should Uighur use the latin or slavic alphabet?
That’s the debate going in one of the bbs threads on uighurbiz and something that i am altogether not familiar with. Of course I don’t know much about what happens in that region at all, but that is what informative … Continue reading
Chinese reporter: why I quit being a journalist
This too is a thread from Xici, and in it a reporter talks about the various things that he/she has seen or done in a ten year career as a journalist in China. 说不清我为什么要告别记者生涯，尽管在几年前我已厌倦了这份工作，但真正咬牙下定决心离开，还是年初的事。我揣着记者证，我的社会身份是“记者”，可是这些年来我何尝有机会做过真正的记者？两千多年前太史公秉笔直书不讳君恶，我们今天都做不到。不能真实地记录，不能自由地表达，我还算什么记者？无非是为稻粱谋而已！这样的“记者”生涯，为什么不向它说再见？ [rough trans: I left this work … Continue reading
Chinese journalist Jing Jianfeng to go on trial
Just saw this on a Xici thread. Basically, the story goes like this: Cheng Weixiu (成维秀), a migrant worker from Lin county in Shanxi province（陝西臨縣) was supposedly beaten to death by a coal mine boss Xue Sanwei (薛三卫) in 2007. … Continue reading
30 million Chinese youth have psychological or behavioral issues
调查显示:我国近3000万未成年人患心病_网易新闻中心 via kwout so says this article…it mostly points to behavioral issues and disorders affecting how kids learn and interact with each other, as well as deeper emotional issues. The article also mentions that one subset that has particular problems … Continue reading
Can a foreigner ever understand China (and other epistemological quandaries
These thoughts come after reading something on Brendan O’Kane’s Chinese blog: this was a post from two months ago, but I just read it now, including the comments. The post contains a video from the Onion, which we all know … Continue reading