China… On Chang Ping and the Unconquerable Word / 关于长平的狂野版 30 Jan 201130 Jan 2011 Today I returned, as we all must, to The Guardian's coverage of China, and was confronted with this story about a recent shedding of a particularly critical editorial voice at…
China… The Yanan Spirit of Journalism 19 Nov 200919 Nov 2009 A few short days ago, Barack Obama was in Shanghai surfing on the edge of the Great Firewall of China, his calm demeanor belying the clangor he was re-initiating over…
China… Chinese Foreign Ministry Statement Refutes Ling & Lee, Defuses Notion of Secret U.S.-North Korea Talks 3 Sep 20094 Sep 2009 Prim and businesslike PRC Foreign Ministry spokesperson Jiang Yu had her work cut out for her today. The reporters in the room were smelling blood -- a high-profile editorial by…
China CCP Senstitive to Domestic Criticism of “Internet Boot Camps” 26 Aug 200926 Aug 2009 Boot camp death story costs editor his post Ivan Zhai South China Morning Post 26 Aug 2009 A deputy editor of a Guangxi newspaper was dismissed by provincial propaganda authorities…
China… Update from Beijing 13 Jun 2009 At the moment, Seattle, Paris, and Berlin are all in the rear-view miror; the author of Sinologistical Violoncellist has moved shop to Beijing, China. While many advantages accrue to one…
North Korea… News from North Korea / 北朝鲜新闻报告 14 May 200915 May 2009 Pyongyang's Korea Central News Agency [KCNA] reports that the two American journalists seized along the Tumen River last March 17 will be tried on June 4. According to the North…
Chinese nationalism… German Views of the PRC 11 May 200915 May 2009 Somehow Sunday and Monday have fused together as a single Teutonic-Sinological seismic entity. Ascribe it to living downtown, to having tens of thousands of real football fans course by one's…
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