An insider's response to Michael Ardaiolo’s “Cultural Voyeurism” article on EnjoyShanghai discussing the similarities and differences between the two China blogs.
Fu Ying, China’s Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs, in an interview with Germany's Der Spiegel. Many of her responses were good, but here's why some were bad...
The NYT has added an Editor's Note acknowledging that the anecdote it used to report on Chinese censorship "could not be assumed to represent a broader trend."
Sharon LaFraniere and David Barboza of the New York Times suggest that uttering the word "protest" in China may get your cell phone call disconnected. Really?
Thousands of Chinese hold anti-Japanese protests in Chengdu as thousands more line up for hours to visit Japan's pavilions at the Shanghai 2010 World Expo.
Reactions from the Western media & Chinese government have been typical. While meaningful symbolically, it's unlikely to lead to any practical near-term change.
Chinese netizens are forwarding around these photos of "large-scale" anti-China demonstrations in Japan in response to the recent Diaoyu Islands collision.
These maps created by Yanko Tsvetkov illustrate the geography of Europe as seen through the eyes of various Europeans (and Americans). Is there one for Asia?
china/divide was a group blog launched March 1, 2010 by three China bloggers: Stan Abrams, Charles Custer, and Kai Pan. Less than three months later, on May 21st, china/divide was blocked by China’s “Great Firewall”, becoming inaccessible to readers in China without proxies or VPNs. Nearly five months later and after a total of 132 published posts, china/divide was quietly disbanded, except for an occasional post or two by Kai when a comment on another site just won’t do.
Interesting post. I'm also curious if this was a face-to-face interview, because some of Spiegel's questions are framed in a rather unpleasant way. And if Ms....more »
Wow, after a 5 month hiatus, you come back with an interesting article. I am surprised that Fu Ying allowed Der Spiegel to give them these kind of questions. ...more »
Komrade Kaipan
nice article,
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Okay. Okay. Pretty smooth responses and probably even better when reframed. Will they allay fears and suspicions? Highly unlikely. Q and A engagements such as t...more »
Hey SKC, no, not really blogging or commenting much these days but as you can see, I've just thrown up a long post that started off as a rare comment. Yeah, I'v...more »
I stopped reading your long post at "...the sheer size of China only make such work more difficult...".
The west have been working very hard trying to break ...more »
An interesting analysis. Thanks. I was encouraged by some of the questions by Speigel as well as some of the answers by Madame Fu.
Eventually, in the future,...more »