Remember, you can do anything in China as long as you don’t subvert the state, anger the wrong people, or — as one subway petitioner found out — “disturb social order.” Meng Zhaohong, whose son was electrocuted at Gulou Station in 2010 when he was a 22-year-old student, has been petitioning for safer subways around... Read more »Read more »
Fars News Agency (FNA), describing itself as "Iran's leading independent news agency," reported yesterday that a senior Chinese lawmaker "reiterated that Beijing attaches great importance to the further expansion of economic, political and industrial ties with Tehran." Read more »
Hollywood Reporter calls the image a “photo leak” — though it’s as likely to have been planted by a publicist — and explains: It is not clear whether Robert Downey Jr is in that armor – the Chinese blogosphere have been abuzz with speculation about his presence on set ever since filming in Beijing began... Read more »Read more »
This is quite the bouleversement of your typical corruption story. Usually — because we’re in China — we hear about Chinese officials and businessmen whose unsavory ethics and practices land them in hot water. This case out of Indiana, however, is about an American using guanxi to swindle Chinese. Shuang Monica Liang — recently dead of a... Read more »Read more »
Peeping weekly at the best (and worst) that was, is, and will be on the China blogosphere. If you were a late arrival to the Sino-English web world and entered via the wrong portals, you probably encountered a toxic mix of serious players, gunslingers with a veneer of academia, trolls, half-wits, cannon fodder and individuals burdened... Read more »Read more »
UPDATE, 12/18, midnight: We’ve switched things up! Blog view is now the frontpage, and the first panel is the “featured posts.” The “category view” button is what you want to click if you’d like to view by our categories. The sidebars have been changed too, slightly. Much easier to consume the content this way. You... Read more »Read more »
(Image by Katie) The whole gang will be at Great Leap Brewing starting around 3 pm today. Apologies in advance if we miss any big Sunday news. Carl Setzer, joint owner, took some time to answer our questions, notably why he would open his reputable establishment to ruffians like ourselves. Don’t go so hard on... Read more »Read more »
It’s time to talk about it. Start here, with The New Yorker’s Evan Osnos: As an American overseas for the last ten years, I’ve watched as other countries struggle with the curious fact that the most prosperous, successful, and emulated civilization the world has ever seen lives with the certainty that every few months one... Read more »Read more »
