Here is a light topic. Since last year's parody song "Say a word in heart", singing songs in a foreign language -- if you can call it that -- has been raised to a totally new level. You've probably even heard the stomach-churning subsequent parodies of "Shanghai beach", "Spicy girl", and even the Peking Opera standard "Su san qi jie", but alas this genre has mercifully run its … [Read more...] about People of the world unite?!
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(Letter) Web search for Tiananmen not censored, but do people care?
As a readers of China blogs for quite some times, I've read my fair share of reports of Tiananmen being a taboo subject in China, and a sensitive terms that's filtered by the Chinese government's GFW (here, here). But those reporting filtering/censorship seem to have categorically fell silent when it appears the term "Tiananmen 64" (in Chinese and English) is not being … [Read more...] about (Letter) Web search for Tiananmen not censored, but do people care?
(Letter) “Fifty Cent Party” definition broaden to people not paid 50 cent
Oh, boy, these days it's dangerous to have a pro-Chinese government view on the Internet, even if you genuinely believe it, out of your own volition, and volunteer such sentiment freely, without acceptiong a 50 cent pittance. Here, you can see Rebecca MacCannon just expaned the definition of "Fifty Cent Party" to include those "paid or who volunteer to post pro-government … [Read more...] about (Letter) “Fifty Cent Party” definition broaden to people not paid 50 cent
(Letter from TonyP4) The Chinese are coming!
The quality problems of Chinese products show up almost every month. It is the experience of most developing countries on their way to a developed country. The last one is S. Korean which adopted a similar model as Japan. What have not been reported extensively are the improvement of the Chinese products and why Chinese will compete with the best in the world. The … [Read more...] about (Letter from TonyP4) The Chinese are coming!
(Letter) Did the Chinese government really tried to hide quake fatalities?
Recently GVO's Oiwan Lam accused the Chinese government of hiding figures and names of the 512 quake victims. But few searches on Baidu.com seem to contradict GVO's claims: 1) In the aftermath, casualty figures have been regularily updated and published by various government agencies including hospitals 2) As result, many media outlets in China have been able to create … [Read more...] about (Letter) Did the Chinese government really tried to hide quake fatalities?