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Top Stories of the week 10/23-10/29
This week China’s central gov’t continued to urge the development of Chinese culture, which no one is entirely sure how to do (at the hospital I have heard several times that we need to promote our...
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Chen Guangcheng’s illegal detention reflects poorly on China, not just Linyi
For over a month now we’ve been covering the story of Chen Guangcheng, thanks largely to Yaxue’s “Heard on Weibo” section. We’ve seen it grow from an online protest, to manifesting in the physical...
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Who is Chen Guangchen – From a small prison to a big prison
…Continued from earlier posts, this is part 3. Part 1, Part 2 From a Small Prison to a Big Prison Chen Guangcheng was released on September 9, 2010, and has been under illegal house arrest since then....
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Christian Bale visited Linyi – Does foreign pressure mean anything to the...
As a China blogger, it’s a pretty big week, open rebellion in Wukan has attracted a flock of journalist, and then Hollywood star Christian Bale/Batman attempted to visit blind lawyer Chen Guangcheng....
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The escape of Chen Guangcheng is not a victory
Last week Chen Guangcheng entered a US embassy for the protection that the Chinese gov’t had failed to provide the innocent man. According to Chen’s friends, it was a step that Chen did not want to...
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A train, a fight, and Chen Guangcheng
I arrived in Beijing late on the high speed train from Nanjing a few days ago. In Nanjing we were whisked to the South train station on a relatively new subway, walked into the massive new...
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The Other China
When I last visited China in 2004, I did what a visiting overseas Chinese typically does: spending time with family and friends, sightseeing, and enjoying the food. In Beijing I felt like a time...
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Criticizing Everything – An interview with Chinese satirist Crazy Crab of...
It’s not surprising that China lacks a forum for cutting political cartoons, but one artist is challenging the Party’s dominance with pigs and ducks. Crazy Crab’s satirical cartoons on China, which he...
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