High speed train accident kills more than 30 – it could happen to travelers Real estate prices take bumpy ride – it could happen to owners Wukan villagers protest over land grab – it could happen to peasants Stock market crash wipes out small investors – it could happen to investors School bus accidents pop [...]
@赵晓 [Mr. Zhao Xiao is a professor at Beijing Technology University School of Management]: Got this joke from a friend, really got a kick out of it. “Ten years ago he adopted the bad habit of smoking, and she the good habit of drinking milk. Ten years later he was still around, but she had kicked [...]
China’s class divide continues to rile the masses. Netizens have rushed to condemn a young mother who called a young laborer “dirty” after he offered her his seat on a public bus in Shijiazhuang, Hebei province. As of this post, this incident had garnered almost 1.3 million comments on Weibo, China’s Twitter, and was the [...]
On Weibo, China’s Twitter, netizens are once again focusing on Kim Jong-Il’s death as images of his two-day long funeral are broadcast around the world. Indifference is rare, and most comments use the opportunity to reflect on the situation in China. Slightly more than half of Weibo users who weighed in were glad to see [...]
Left: Take off from Australia. Right: Landing in China. Same plane, same seat, same window, same camera. Pretty shocking when you put it together.
CCTV anchor Zhang Quanling tweets: “One of our foreign correspondents Xu Shenyi was sent to Pakistan; Bin Laden subsequently died. She was then sent to Libya, where many reporters had rotated in and out, but after she got there Qaddafi died. So we are all guessing where she would be sent next? Syria or Iran?” [...]
The Chinese blogosphere is abuzz this Christmas season. Anyone who is anyone has offered their two cents on the fierce debate started by Han Han’s blog entry “On Revolution.” The article, which seems to question the Chinese masses’ “fitness for democracy,” caused an uproar in the blogosphere among those with liberal leanings and earned approving mentions [...]
Han Han, the provocative blogger cum novelist cum race car driver cum high school dropout, has done it again. Only this time, he has drawn heavy fire from some of China’s liberal intellectuals with his most recent blog entries “On Revolution” and “On Democracy.” The long, rambling “On Revolution” offers a rather pessimistic view of [...]
Yiyi, the two year old girl who lost both her parents during the bullet train crash near Wenzhou in Zhejiang province, has become a tragic symbol of the catastrophe. Recent news that she has recovered sufficiently to return home for the holidays prompted a fresh torrent of comments from Chinese netizens. Netizens’ responses varied from well-wishers telling [...]
Cantonese netizens reacted angrily to new regulations requiring that, starting on March 1, 2012, all television, radio and even Internet broadcasts in Guangdong province, one of China’s most prosperous, must use Mandarin Chinese instead of Cantonese. The two languages have much vocabulary in common but are nevertheless nearly mutually unintelligible due to extensive differences in pronunciation. [...]
Chinese netizens are watching the “Korean drama” and, in tune with the festive season in the West, humming a self-invented theme song of “Jinge [Brother Kim] bye, Jinge bye, Jinge on the way.” Many scoff at the pictures of grieving North Koreans as “nationwide theater”, while some from the older generation reminisce about similar scenes [...]
Can one man outwit a Kafkaesque system? Attorney Li Zhuang was prosecuted for instigating false testimony and obstruction of justice as a defense attorney of a gangster in 2009. The case was widely seen as a way to intimidate all criminal defense attorneys in China. Mr. Li was convicted in the first trial after engaging in a [...]
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