Netizens beware: One errant tweet can make years of your online history disappear. The Chinese blogosphere is abuzz after Zhuang Wuxie (@庄无邪), an advertising exec in Bejing, wrote a mini-essay ...
Voices from Weibo
Voices — Dissidents Don’t Exist in China?
@中国草根大学 posted a photo of Mr. Ma Zhaoxu, a spokesperson for the Ministry of ...
Voices — Why is China on Syria’s Side
Historian Lei Yi (@雷颐) tweets re: China’s veto of the U.N. resolution ...
Voices — You Care About Bears? What About Pigs?
Don’t tell China’s netizens the country is indifferent to animal rights. Weibo, ...
Freshly Brewed
Netizens Ask: Why Did We Clone Groupon in China Again?
It’s no secret that Gaopeng, Groupon’s joint venture with Tencent in China, is a train wreck. The troubled company saw multiple rounds of job cuts in 2011, closed thirteen braches and was rumoured to have cash flow problems. The only comfort for Groupon may be that many of its competitors in China are having troubles [...]
Mass Incident Watch: Retirees Demand More Pension from SOE
Netizens report that on February 20 hundreds of retirees blocked traffic in Gezhouba, a city in Hubei Province near one of China’s largest state-owned hydropower stations of the same name, to demand higher pensions. Eye witnesses have posted photos on YCSQ.cn, a regional web portal, Sina Weibo and Sohu Weibo. The banners in the photos posted on Sohu Weibo [...]
Should China Legalize Euthanasia?
On May 16, 2011, Mr. Deng Mingjian helped his mother die. According to the 41-year-old’s sworn testimony, his mother Li Mou, who had been paralyzed and lain under his care for 18 years, felt she had become a burden to her family. Deng’s testimony states his mother asked him to buy a bottle of pesticide [...]
What Did Xi Jinping Just Say About Human Rights?
Break out your decoders, dear readers; a politician is talking. At a Tuesday luncheon with U.S. Vice-President Joe Biden, Chinese Vice President and heir apparent Xi Jinping defended China’s human rights record by saying, “There’s no best, only better.” China’s netizens, who are seemingly as unsure as Western observers as to what Xi’s ascendance means for [...]
Images from Weibo – It’s 2012! We Mean the Mayan 2012…
Shanghai Morning Post (@新闻晨报) reports on Weibo that netizen @-夜莺-May spotted surface cracks in the busiest area of Pudong, Shanghai. Well trained by Hollywood, many netizens’ first thoughts ran to disaster movie-land. @漾漾乐园 tweets, “So scary! Is 2012 really coming?” @china_lidb suggests helpfully, “Apply glue, quickly!” @Sai-SH warns, ”Earth has finally reached its limit.” Shanghai Morning Post interviewed Mr. Ge Qing (@葛清EMBA10SH7), [...]
Panhe Uprising is Real! Foreign Reporters Beaten
It’s official: Wukan 2.0 is taking place in Panhe (泮河), a small village of about 5,000 souls in coastal Zhejiang Province. As Tea Leaf Nation reported on February 7 and February 8, based on reports circulating in the Chinese blogosphere, and as now confirmed by the Global Times, at least 200 villagers staged three protests [...]
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Mr. Anti-America Goes to Washington (and Gets Hurt)
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Blogosphere Brawl: Netizens Say Sina Weibo Corrupted by Power
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Google+ (and Youtube?) Now Accessible in China – Will It Last?
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Elementary School Turned Into Car Dealership
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Netizens Ask: Why Did We Clone Groupon in China Again?
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Mass Incident Watch: Retirees Demand More Pension from SOE
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Don: I guess the Chinese government has realized that n...
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Slatkin: I was in Shanghai last November and could access G...
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NikiFan: Nice sharing. Education has a lot to do with the c...
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