a shameful waste of madhouse time

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 will be there. Here’s a picture of a store in Guangzhou:

"钉子户"小店坚守路中央 被称"最牛副食店"(图)_网易新闻中心 via kwout

Here’s another picture [...]

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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. Cheng’s relative (cousin?) Cheng Yunqiang (成运强) and some other relatives paid a visit to a hotel [...]

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Man, I’d hate to see what I would get fined if they … Poor Ren Chaoqi, you really have to feel for this guy — he got his fifteen minutes of fame for being fined 1900 RMB for having some dirty videos on his computer. The story goes that the police were checking up on [...]

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银行因挂失电话冗长误事 赔偿客户1万元(图)_网易新闻中心 via kwout

Never deposit a huge wad of money in the bank machine, at least not in Guangzhou, and definitely not in front of strange men that you don’t know. The scam is interesting: Mr. Shu puts the money in, and just as he’s about to finish, a guy next to him says “you [...]

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This is from the China CSR newsletter:
August 5, 2008
Local sources report that according to a committee organized by Chinese media, ten multinational corporations have been exposed for lack of corporate social responsibility in China.
According to Sina.com, the ten companies are Sanyo, Michelin, P&G, Carlsberg, Starbucks, LG, Federal Express, Honda, Lucent, and Jinmailang.
The committee used the [...]

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Well, I was about to write “old” until I realized that my parents are about the same age. Shu Anquan, 64, waited outside the Taipei courthouse where former
Taiwanese prez Chen Shuibian took the stand as the defendant. Shu comes from a group called 中华爱国同心会, which means that he’s more or less
pro-China, or at least pro-Chinese. [...]

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徐贲：善待底层民情_网易新闻中心 via kwout

These two pictures, from Hunan province, have been making the rounds on the internet because of what it says on the banners: the first one says “谁不依法信访就打击谁” which means “whoever unlawfully petitions the government will be attacked” while the second one says “违法上访，坐牢罚款”, which means “illegal petitions will be result in jail sentences [...]

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I was reading Southern Weekend’s investigation into the Weng’an region: the common wisdom now is that the problems didn’t begin or end with the June 28 incident, but that the latter was merely what happened when long simmering problems reached the boiling point. This report about a place called Jiang Jie He Village (瓮安县龙塘乡江界河村), where [...]

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