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More hating on Jackie Chan

Blogger Hu Xingdou calls for a boycott of the Jackie Chan’s May 1st Beijing concert in light of Chan’s controversial comments about Chinese people and their need to be regulated or controlled. In some way i am sympathetic to Chan, … Continue reading

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Some thoughts on China’s New Human Righ …

Some thoughts on China’s New Human Rights Plan So China has just recently unveiled its human rights plan, marking the first time there has been a specific plan for human rights. The document outlines the Chinese govt’s overall strategy, and … Continue reading

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On regarding the pain of others

The title of this post is stolen from Susan Sontag’s book of the same name, which some might recognize as the “sequel” to the seminal On Photography. However, the topic is quite different. The conventional wisdom is that when a … Continue reading

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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

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China, unemployment, unrest

The effects of the economic downturn are being felt in CHina. The Times of India reports that with export markets doing poorly, labor demand is down ad unemployment has spiked which leads to renewed fears, on the part of the … Continue reading

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Hail to the king: or why men are incapable of being faithful.

OK, so you might be wondering why I am reading an essay from the women’s section at 163.com, because that is SO NOT MY GENRE. But i was drawn to the title: “how should i deal with my husband’s many … Continue reading

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What exactly caused the Hangzhou subway collapse

Well, no one knows, just yet. There are no official answers, but from what i’ve been able to cull from the internet, there were several factors. Some people have said that the tubes used to prop the tunnel up were … Continue reading

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Shanghai Business School Fire: now comes the blame game

Should they have jumped, why did the jump? Were they hanging off the rails of the balconies until they had no strength and just let go? Why didn’t any brave men climb up the stairs to rescue them? Four women … Continue reading

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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

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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

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