Culture is no excuse for China denying its people democracy — and not only China. Ian Buruma makes a stand for, eh, a modest amount of unalienable rights. (via norm.)
February 4th, 2008 / Tags: china, politics / TrackbackFound in Translation, on a Chinese Flight: “When you wake up in the morning, trying to figure out whether you are in Beijing, Shanghai or Guangzhou, you hear the harmonic voice of the Backstreet Boys on the radio. You suddenly forget where you are — because music is boundless! This is the power of Foreign POP Music.’
October 30th, 2007 / Tags: music, china, funny / TrackbackChina Regulates Buddhist Reincarnation: “In one of history’s more absurd acts of totalitarianism, China has banned Buddhist monks in Tibet from reincarnating without government permission.”(via FP)
August 30th, 2007 / Tags: china, funny but not ha-ha / TrackbackChina attacks the Marxists Internet Archive: “In early November we came under sustained denial of service attack from Internet hosts in China attempting to exploit a misconfiguration in our server’s operating system. The nature and origin of the attack, our previous history with the PRC, and the experience of others suggest that this maybe politically motivated and directed by the Chinese government…” Remarkable. Gotta protect the people from subversive thought?
January 24th, 2007 / Tags: china, politics / TrackbackPower, corruption and lies — Will Hutton writes a rather interesting article about China (“The truth is that China is not the socialist market economy the party describes, nor moving towards capitalism as the western consensus believes. Rather it is frozen in a structure that I describe as Leninist corporatism – and which is unstable, monumentally inefficient, dependent upon the expropriation of peasant savings on a grand scale, colossally unequal and ultimately unsustainable.”)
January 8th, 2007 / Tags: china, politics / TrackbackThe Joyless Club: “Sex has never interested me. In fact, I find it a little filthy. The doctor told me this is common, but it is not a short-term feeling I can change. I hope to find a girl in the same plight. One day we can walk down the aisle together, raise children, support our parents, and spend our energy on work and living a good, happy life.” Internet personals for asexual encounters.
January 1st, 2007 / Tags: china, sex / Trackback