By PATRICK BOEHLER April 01, 2015
In recent months, China’s Internet regulators have further restricted the already limited access that the nation’s 648 million Internet users have to the web. Several Google services, including Gmail and Gchat, have become inaccessible. Virtual private networks, Continue reading
Q. and A.: Adam Fisk on Evading Internet Censorship in China已关闭评论
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By @WoodenHarp, published: March 22, 2015
An interesting take by an anonymous Chinese tweep.
If the China-US relationship from the early 1970s to the late 1980 was built on national security considerations of the two countries against their common Continue reading
On David Shambaugh’s Collapsism已关闭评论
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Reviewed by John Butler
21 March 2015 — Bertrand Russell once remarked that he didn’t write about Confucius because he found the Chinese sage “boring.” If Lord Russell had lived long enough to have read this book, Continue reading
AFP By Felicia Sonmez
March 20, 2015 2:00 AM
Beijing (AFP) – A hard hat-clad American TV host grips the bamboo-and-steel scaffolding, the dizzying urban landscape of China’s commercial centre Shanghai unfolding far below him.
“I’m bringing cameras and questions to places outsiders are rarely permitted, to investigate the aspirations of the world’s fastest-growing middle class,” architect Danny Forster tells Discovery viewers.
There is just one catch: both the cameras — and the questions — are co-funded by the Chinese government.
Beijing has long sought to boost its “soft power” abroad, spending billions of yuan on expanding the international presence of its state-run media — including broadcaster CCTV Continue reading
Emily Rauhala / Beijing @emilyrauhala March 19, 2015
Altaf Qadri—AP
Indian women’s rights activists wearing masks of five women’s rights activists formally detained in China after Women’s Day crackdown, hold placards with their names, to express their solidarity and demand their immediate release, in New Delhi, India, Wednesday, March 18, 2015
The line between dissidence and social activism grows ever murkier
It was supposed to be a celebration. This year marks Continue reading
Five Feminists Remain Jailed in China for Activities the Government Supports已关闭评论
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An Excerpt from “China’s Millennials: The Want Generation”
Eric Fish March 16, 2015
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Li Tingting is interviewed by members of the media during the Occupy Men’s Room demonstration in 2012.
On March 6, Chinese police detained a group of feminist activists ahead of International Women’s Day. Five of them, remain in criminal detention on suspicion of “picking quarrels and causing a disturbance,” Continue reading
The Education of Detained Chinese Feminist Li Tingting已关闭评论
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by anthony on 15/02/15 at 3:55 pm
How does one reach beyond cliche to unearth the root causes of China’s environmental problems? Start by assembling a panel that rivals those you’d find at international summits: Continue reading
China Environment Panel 14:00 14th Mar / The Bookworm – Beijing已关闭评论
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