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Nobody at my office, in the city’s government building, seems to care much about what happened to the deputy sec. of the whole Province last
About 200 pensioners are camped outside of the Chengdu municipal government office building to protest imbalances in benefits offered to private and public sector employees.
Doing research for this project brought a picture to my mind of me in a field of yellow flowers with a long butterfly net chasing
The NYT story on the Wen Family finances that came out in October, Billions in Hidden Riches for Family of Chinese Leader, is lauded by mainstream media
I made a visit to the Jianchuan Museum Cluster a few months ago and then wrote a post for Chengduliving on the museum and Fan
Every time I hear the China version of this song, Nana’s Lonely, I think of Huang Shan dancing in front of the speaker in a
Sometimes I can’t sleep at night, I toss and turn, alarm bells and laughter going off in the street. Honking cars in my dreams. I
“Obama succeeded George W. Bush, a two-term President whose misbegotten legacy, measured in the money it squandered and the misery it inflicted, has become only
It is never too late to send love out to your people. It is never too late to reply to a letter. It is never
I find myself sleeping, tweeting, taking notes. Talking to people I don’t know. Coffee and cigarettes. And carrying my son around on my shoulders so
“When you think about the worst that could happen, you should resist this temptation to make yourself the centre of the world. Turn away from
My vision of myself rarely coincides with the vision others have of me. When people think highly of me, I hear the sniveling thief gibber
the things I’ve seen in life will make you gasp in surprise like a pod of dolphins dancing in the ocean at sunrise preventing my demise a
Here in Chengdu, people have been asking me: “Hey, did you hear what they did in Hong Kong? They stood up to the government.” There
Factories will have no workers, just a few people making sure the machines are well-oiled Doctors will never touch a knife, only input the data
When I look at my sons, I feel as if the complexities of my soul have been sundered into two separate facets and placed within
Recently we’ve been treated to a few events that have brought out the reactions of Chinese netizens across the spectrum of opinion, from the reform-minded
I know a girl named Color who stopped me on the street one day and said, I am different from every other Chinese girl out
Chen Guang Cheng’s great escape from house arrest, oppression and beatings has taken an awkward twist, with the activist in the custody of the Chinese
Chen Guangcheng is an activist in China’s northern Shandong Province. He is blind and lives in the tiny rural village of Dongshigu, where he fought
If I were single and still in the Game, I would hold myself and all others to an oath of silence on the sociological phenomenon
This essay might sound a bit familiar, if you read this blog, as I seem to be circling the idea of change as a possibility.
I was struck today by John Garnaut’s profile of General Liu Yuan, embedded in an investigation into PLA corruption. What moved me and stopped me
Something is happening across China, something impossible to stop and with consequences difficult to foresee. It began with the death of Deng Xiaoping, continued with
Whenever I open Twitter to see what the people are saying, I end up feeling like the kid who showed up late to the meth
Perhaps this issue is old hat and considering the fact that much of the implementation and enforcement of China’s Social Security Law is, shall we
What we today call the Chongqing Model and the Guangdong Model are just new names for an ancient struggle. Since the first brick was laid
China-based hacks into commercial and political networks across the planet have made the news again, with the Trend Micro report on an attack called LuckyCat
I am a stranger in a strange land. I need connections or I will wither and die. And the connections I need are not just
The Bo Xilai Incident will not die a quiet death. The plodding censors in the Chinese government are stirring up the rumor pot, and no
This one goes out to E-Minor. I was defeated on the field of battle, in front of women and friends, by an Afrosamurai Warrior. Not
I didn’t have the confidence to step into the Wang-Bo scandal that has raged across the mainstream Western media (and parts of the Weibosphere) because
There are daily examples all across the world of the media mis-reporting the news and influencing public opinion. Some of them we just let go
It’s amazing how winter in most Chinese cities cancels out the sun. The skies seem to turn gray across the board, from Jiangxi to Sichuan and
Tell me how to keep the smile on my face when I start every morning hacking like an old revolutionary until lung butter splatters the
Imagine a four-headed know it all troll with a broad streak of arrogance at the helm of the Gray Pearl in the midst of the
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