Flame War: Novelist vs Fraud Buster

Danwei’s Joel Martinson chronicles the war of words between author-blogger-racing driver Han Han and merciless scientific fraud slayer Fang Zhouzi. Battle lines have been drawn, with writers, publishers, cartoonists and allegedly censors arrayed …

On Vogel & Kissinger’s “Sino-Americana”

Science fiction author William Gibson has frequently argued that “novels set in imaginary futures are necessarily about the moment in which they are written“; that the real subject matter of ’1984′ was 1948. In the London Review…

Photo: Hong Kong February 2011, by Remko Tanis

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China and Merkel do Diplomatic Euro Debt Dance

German Chancellor Angela Merkel is in China, sowing potentially advantageous diplomatic relations in the midst of the EU’s current economic situation. An article from NBC News’ Behind the Wall explains how, in addition to economic relief,

China’s African Union HQ a Trojan Horse? (Updated)

China’s gift of a new $200 million African Union headquarters in Addis Ababa has generated a great deal of warmth among high-ranking officials, but many in both China and Africa feel decidedly chillier about the project. From The Globe and Mail:C…

China’s Diplomacy 2.0 and Hu Xijin

When Global Times’ editor Hu Xijin went on Twitter he generated quite a buzz among foreign correspondents and activists in China. The Council on Foreign Relations looks at Hu’s tweeting as part of a new paradigm shift in Chinese politics an…

China Seeks Help on Kidnapped Workers

Twenty-nine Chinese workers who were kidnapped in Sudan earlier this week have not yet been released, and the Chinese government is considering its options, including appealing for help from South Sudan and possibly the African Union. From Reuters:A te…

Vivid Memories of Nixon’s 1972 Visit to China

A new documentary produced by the USC US-China Institute and reported by Mike Chinoy looks at the history of foreign correspondents in China. The segment below focuses on the period surrounding President Nixon’s historic visit to Beijing in 1972:…

Humor: Facebook & the “Four Ancient Civilizations”

Facebook’s pending IPO is a hot topic in Chinese cyberspace, even though (or maybe because) Facebook is blocked inside the country. The following conversations and comments are translated from Sina Weibo:- A female colleague just came back from a…

Tibetan Protests Caught on Video

Radio Free Asia has posted video that reportedly shows a protest in Aba Prefecture, Sichuan, where large-scale demonstrations erupted last week, resulting in the shooting of one or more protesters by security officials. Read more about the protests on …

Photo: Chinese New Year Parade in New York Chinatown, by May S. Young

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Weibo: Order to Detain Petitioner

Li Guosheng posted this to his Sina Weibo on January 8 with an image of the letter to the Kaifu Discipline and Inspection Commission. The message was reposted 420 times and received 98 comments. Li’s Weibo account no longer exists, but his Sina b…

Running Dogs and Locusts

A deep rift in cultural identity has come into the spotlight through public expressions of the tension that exists between residents of Hong Kong and those of the mainland. The Economist outlines the beginnings of the most recent series of events: O…

Can Transparency Clean Up China’s Hazy Environment?

In response to public criticism, Beijing recently began releasing PM 2.5 readings of atmospheric particulates, while previously only PM 10 data was publicly available. The number in a particulate matter reading refers to the diameter of the particle in…

Photo: Repair, by Mark Hobbs

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Best of the Worst: 2011 Music Video

“Oh, China! Slow down!” (祖国啊你慢些走) appeared on the overseas Chinese portal 6Park in August 2011. Minus the tragedies of Xiao Yueyue and the school bus crash, it packs in all of the major scandals of the previous year:forced dem…

School in China Is an Unlikely Wonder

Tensions between Tibetans and Chinese officials are escalating to dangerous heights in many areas. Among a host of issues raised by Tibetans in protest of their treatment at the hands of Beijing is the requirement that Tibetan children must learn Manda…

Beijing Says ‘No Need to Sweat’ Tibet

In the wake of extensive Western media coverage of protests and violent police action in Tibetan populated regions of western China, Global Times says there is “no need to sweat over minor unrest”: [...]As long as China remains stable as…

China Dissident Tried over Skype Messages, Poem

Dissident Zhu Yufu was put on trial today but no verdict has yet been announced. From Reuters:Veteran activist Zhu Yufu faced trial in the prosperous eastern city of Hangzhou, where police arrested him in April and charged him with “inciting subv…

Wukan Tests Democracy With Historic Vote

Residents of Wukan, the village in Guangdong province which garnered global attention in connection with violent land grab demonstrations late last year, went to the polls Wednesday to select a committee to oversee the election of village representativ…

Photo: Luoman Village, by Expatriate Games

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Ai Weiwei Picks Chen Guangcheng for Wired Smart List

Chen Guangcheng won two nominations for Wired UK’s 2012 ‘Smart List’ of “50 people who will change the world”, including one from Ai Weiwei:“Chen Guangcheng is an activist from Shandong who lost his sight as a child;…

CEO: Twitter Can’t Operate in China

Twitter’s announcement that it would start selectively blocking tweets in order to comply with different countries’ legal restrictions brought a storm of criticism and threats of boycott. Among China-watchers, the flames were fanned by a Gl…

Guangxi’s Battle for Clean Water

After detection of high levels of cadmium in the tributaries of the Pearl River, officials claim that the levels of the poisonous chemical found in batteries has been successfully diluted. The chemical spill threatened the water supply of 1.5 million p…

One Country, Two Systems? Not Really.

With the recent argument between mainland tourists and Hong Kong locals on the subway and Professor Kong Qingdong’s comments in a TV interview, tensions seem to be rising between Hong Kong and the mainland. As China’s economy has risen in …

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