Hua died on August 20, and as you can expect w/ someone of his particular stature and role in history, obituaries are going to be terse at best:
On Baidu news, the Olympics coverage dominated most of the top of the web page, and you had to scroll down slightly to get to a few sparse [...]
What is going to be said about the life and death of Hua Guofeng?
August 21st, 2008 · 1 Comment
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China: Not your typical “Party School” or the use and abuse of ideology
August 15th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Blogger and author Chen Xingzhi on Bokee talks about his experiences at the Chinese Communist Party School, where they study Marx, Engels, Lenin, Mao Zedong, Deng, and Jiang Zemin. He is, of course, a Party Member and no doubt in some kind of leadership position. He spent four months as in the Party School, attending [...]
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Sex and the Party: Is China ready for a nude island?
July 26th, 2008 · No Comments
The sexologist Pan Hai has called for one of the idyllic islands off Zhuhai–Miao Wan Island–to be turned into a nude island. The blog post, written on July 15, is titled 中国应有裸泳海滩 (China ought to have a nude beach) and lays out some of Pan’s reasons he believes it’s about time for China’s own nude [...]
Hu Jintao loves Photoshop
July 24th, 2008 · No Comments
H/t to Matt for showing me the link. Twin brothers, both devoted to the Party. Even whitey’s got to smile at that.
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Sichuan officials punished for earthquake relief related issues
June 27th, 2008 · No Comments
Just saw this on Sina. In the city of Ya’An in Sichuan has “fired” three township level party
secretaries and given serious warnings to several other cadres. This was over irregularities
in how the relief efforts were coordinated and handled; for example, how things were
distributed, the speed and efficiency with the work was done, etc. The article [...]
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