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Zhou Yongkang: Party and People Thank You
Despite calls for his ouster, it seems Zhou Yongkang won’t be leaving the Politburo Standing Committee anytime soon. He is believed to be a lone supporter of ousted Chongqing Party Secretary Bo Xilai....
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General Zhang’s Kiss of Death
Zhang Zhaozhong, a major general in the People’s Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF), is known for bringing doom by showering praise. Frequenting talk shows, he predicted successful futures for both...
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Siri Learns Chinese
Siri, the iPhone voice recognition assistant, has just learned Chinese. Siri can wake you up, give you directions, even write text messages for you. But she won’t do it all. If you ask her, in English,...
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This Weibo Is Not Appropriate for the Public (Update)
Posing as China’s augur of doom, Major General Zhang Zhaozhong, one Weibo user went too far for Sina’s powers that be. Zhang is a talking head who is famous for predicting happy outcomes for Saddam...
View ArticleNetizen Voices: Hounded Out of House and Home
Forced eviction plagues Chinese homeowners, as local governments make land grabs to get rich quick. The popular takeover of Wukan, Guangdong last winter, and rioting in Zuotan this week, have their...
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Hu Xijin Speaks Chinglish
Not a trace of the July 1 Hong Kong protests can be seen on mainland Chinese media, and “sensitive words” surrounding the rallies have been scrubbed from major Web platforms. So Global Times Chief...
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Netizen Voices: Lunch with the Shifang Police
In the wake of photos and details about the confrontation between unarmed civilians and police in Shifang going viral, netizens have dug up a June 16 post on the Shifang Special Police’s official Weibo...
View ArticleNetizen Voices: Hu Xijin on Shifang
Protests in Shifang over a planned copper molybdenum plant succeeded in halting the project, but not before armed police attacked civilians. Photos of blood-stained streets and tear gas clouds flooded...
View ArticleNetizen Voices: In Defense of Han Han’s Potty Mouth
Update: New comment by sam025 added at the bottom. Irony is lost on Global Times Chief Editor Hu Xijin, who half-enjoyed Han Han’s June 20 essay on his philosophy of life. According to Hu, Han Han’s...
View ArticleNetizen Voices: Surprise! China’s a Democracy
In the June 20 Global Times piece “China Became a Kind of Democracy Long Ago” (中国早已进入民主国家的范畴), Zheng Ruolin contested the centrality of elections to democracy: Elections are only the final indication...
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U.S. Consulate HK Speaks Shanghainese
After several “reincarnations” of the U.S. Consulate Shanghai’s Weibo account, it seems its presence on the microblogging platform is done for good. Sina reports that the account may be down to due...
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Foreign Media’s Unstoppable Cuteness
It isn’t news that U.S. consulates in China love to post witty quips on Weibo, but you may not know that Japan’s Asahi Shimbun also partakes in cuteness from time to time. The shut-down of U.S....
View ArticleObama’s Comedy Not Routine for Chinese Audience
At China Real Time, Josh Chin looks at Chinese netizens’ mixed reactions to president Obama’s performance at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on Saturday. To be sure, some of Mr. Obama’s jokes...
View ArticleDon’t Say Millions Starved, Try “Nutritional Death”
A Chinese professor was recently attacked by netizens on Sina Weibo for underestimating the death toll of the Great Chinese Famine from 1958-1961. Global Voices’ Oiwan Lam reports: The hottest search...
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Activists Challenge Beijing by Going to Dinner
To evade government interference, a new group of educated middle-class grassroots activists are now organizing around evening meals to “lay the groundwork for democratizing China.” From The Wall Street...
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