We begin with the Washington Post’s excellent story about the differences between Chen Guangcheng’s situation and Fang Lizhi‘s: Worried that taking refuge with American diplomats would allow China’s Communist Party to portray the Tiananmen protest as a U.S.-orchestrated conspiracy, Fang decided after his first meeting at the embassy that he didn’t want U.S. help after... Read more »
Via Ministry of Tofu, VANCL t-shirts (no longer available) with Wen Jiabao quotes. Excited about the Strawberry and Midi festivals coming up? Don’t answer. I can’t hear you. Links.
Left: via China Daily: “China’s renowned yoga instructor Muqi Miya coaches during the third National Thousand Yoga Fans Gathering at the Slender West Lake in Yangzhou, East China’s Jiangsu province on April 22, 2012.” Right: via Ministry of Tofu: “Li Yingzhi wears a diamond-studded worth more than 100 million yuan.” Lots of links today, so brace... Read more »
Photos by Jason Lee, via Bored Panda In less than an hour, I’ll be on a train to Nanjing, but this site will go on. A lot of good is down the pipeline, including the newest Chillax (scheduled for 12:30 am pm), some great pictures, China Daily following a sock monkey, and, of course, the latest... Read more »
Via Malcolm Moore, the Telegraph The Lament of Neil Heywood: Well, since Gu Kailai left me, I’ve found a new place to dwell. It’s down at the end of Lonely Street at Lucky Holiday Hotel. Now, links.
Via H. Lincoln, ChinaB We’re migrating all the Bo Xilai links from these last two and a half days to its own post, which will appear in 30 ninutes. For now, non-Bo links.
Image by Philip Jones You wouldn’t know it by the pictures and stories we’ve been posting here these last few days, but it’s been absolutely beautiful in Beijing lately. Spring is a fleeting season here, so we’re making the most of it… over links.
Via Time’s Global Spin blog Tonight’s BBC’s radio show World Have Your Say invited me to participate along with Tom of Seeing Red in China, blogger/researcher Isaac Mao and a student in London whose name we didn’t catch. Feel free to give it a listen over links, if you will.
