What if the Chinese government suffered from Wikileaks? In the New York Review of Books, Perry Link ponders this hypothetical as the Party wrestles to keep control of history and faces its own problems with leaked documents and a sudden boomlet in memoirs by departed (and soon-to-be departed) leaders trying to put a final spin on [...]
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Apparently Chinese foreign minister Yang Jiechi didn’t take it too well when Secretary Hillary Clinton last week essentially called “bullshit” on some of China’s more creative and ambitious claims to the South China Sea. According to US and Asian officials present at the meeting: “Foreign Minister Yang reacted by leaving the meeting for an hour. When he [...] With the 90th anniversary of the CCP just around the corner (okay, next July…), the Party brass and their academic ass sucks got together for a high-level history hootenanny. At the kick-off, China’s Heir-Apparent-But-We-Still-Can’t-Admit-That-Publicly-Yet Xi Jinping called for more education regarding the Party’s history. Xi said the Party, having experienced the tests of revolution, development and reform, [...] It’s summer and that usually means catching up on important things like “dissertation research,” “World Cup,” and, of course, “television.” One of the undeniable pleasures of Beijing is exchanging a few kuai with the local DVD salesman and walking away with two or three complete seasons of trash television. Of late, I’ve been really into a show [...] Down in the antipode this week, an international scuffle broke out and it had nothing to do with the criminally atrocious officiating last night in both the Germany/Serbia and US/Slovenia matches…* Russel Norman, MP and leader of the New Zealand Green Party, marked the arrival of Chinese heir-to-be-but-we’re-still-not-telling-anybody-officially-yet Xi Jinping to Wellington by waving a Τibetan flag [...] I want to come clean: I am a Red Sox fenqing. Mao may have had his Red Guards but I’m a card-carrying armband-wearing brainless slogan-chanting member of the 红袜兵.* Hey, we’ve got our catchy songs and marching anthem too. You have a problem with that? Didn’t think so, because there’s a bleacher full of guys behind me [...] Kaiser Kuo has started Sinica, a much-needed podcast series bringing together people from academia, media, business, and other corners of the Sinosphere to discuss the issues of the day. This week’s episode featured Gady Epstein from Forbes Magazine, Tania Branigan of The Guardian, and I me talking a bit about Hu Yaobang, earthquakes, and, apparently, [...] Now this could just be a glitch in the system, but I’ve been hearing over Twitter this evening that Google searches are now being disrupted in PRC. So with a couple of minutes of time to kill, I switched off the VPN and tested it out from my office here at the Beijing Foreign Studies University: Google.com [...] One of my favorite journalists working in Beijing today is Evan Osnos, who has acquitted himself most ably carrying on the tradition of excellent China writing in The New Yorker. His vignettes on the Letter from China blog are always a must-read and today’s short piece, entitled “Life after Google“, concludes on a rather elegant and [...] What is it about the American Association of Asian Studies annual meeting this year? Yeah, I know — other than the fact that I SHOULD be there if only to network with Important People in my field, if only so they can keep reminding me that my future employment prospects rank somewhere between “Dinosaur wrangler” and “Tiger [...] Professor Wang Hui of Tsinghua University, the former editor of the journal 《读书》(Dushu) and a well-known standard bearer of China’s “New Left” intellectuals has been accused of plagiarism in an article this week published in an academic literary journal 《文艺研究》(Wenyi Yanjiu). In the article, Nanjing University literature professor Wang Binbin charges that Wang Hui’s dissertation on [...] I’ve said it before, but nothing makes the CCP look more like a bunch of insecure moonbats than their fixation on “guiding public opinion” (read: censorship and propaganda). The 2009 SCIO Internet News Work training session recently wrapped up in Beijing, and over the next few days China Digital Times is publishing translated notes from the [...] |
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