China Segment

Just to commemorate an anniversary today. White is the color symbolizing death in China, and people often use it to remember those who meant something to them. One of the greatest shames is how quickly people forget the past. Everyone in Shanghai is too busy making money these days to give a [...]

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While I’m deeply disturbed by the various reports of what’s happening in Tibet and have my own strong opinions on the subject, this isn’t a political blog and I’d rather stay unblocked for now. That said, I’d like to comment on the fact that television news programs in the rest of the country [...]

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It’s good to be back up in China.  Unblocked and ready to blog.  Everyday I see many juicy tidbits just waiting to be posted.
No idea how the site got unblocked or why.  But I guess the Ministry of Culture (who must have been jealous of my website ranking - certainly in the millions on Alexa, [...]

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Well this blog has been blocked in China for about 5 days now. For those of you outside the good ol’ PRC, when readers here click on a link for the site or type in the url they get a page that says something like ‘the server could not find this page’, depending on [...]

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That said by the ministry in charge of films here in China.  No surprise, really, as the government often treats the people as a mass of children that need nannies rather than leadership.
In a sense, it’s merely a continuation of the kind of thinking that goes back centuries in China.  Ruler treats subject like father [...]

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