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Tag Archives: chinese
Gong Li became a Singaporean and some Chinese people are pissed
What, so this is news today? Well, news in China is always of the form “event+internet reaction,” which itself is some kind of recursive phenomenon, especially when there are naked or scantily clad people involved–with violence, corruption, repression following behind … 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
The return of the nail houses
Well, the nail-houses have never gone anywhere, it’s more a matter of where the media has gone when they don’t cover them. I’m not saying there ought to be round the clock coverage, just that the phenomenon is and always … Continue reading
Stuff about Shanghai cop killer Yang Jia （杨佳）
Some interesting statements during the court proceedings: 杨佳当庭直言：我是无罪的，是他们违法，有罪的是他们。（指警察，发人深思啊） [Yang Jia: I am innocent, is they who are guilty of breaking the law.] 法官问：你有什么补充意见？杨佳说：“这些警察之所以敢这样，都是因为他们的背后有你们”。 [Judge asks: do you have any thing to add to your statement? Yang Jia: “the reason the … 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
Aerial pictures of Chinese pollution from Southern Weekend
南方周末 – 【写真】一次航拍的意外发现：伤痕 via kwout I saw these pictures in the paper version and now saw them online…they are amazing both aesthetically (aerial shots) and because of the sad reality that they reveal–the irreversible degradation of China’s environment. The pictures … Continue reading
Books I’m Reading: 写给大家的中国美术史
Something’s been running around my mind since I started reading this book: the idea of the scholar-painter. Each of the early Chinese dynasties had court painters, but its during the first centuries AD, after the fall of the Han and … Continue reading