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Tag Archives: China
What I learned from Dashan
I don’t have much time for social Q&A site Quora, I confess. It seems to combine the narcissism of blogging (I should know!) with the politics of Wikipedia editing in all sorts of odd ways. I signed up early, lurked … Continue reading
Tagged China, Media, Nationalism, Pop Culture
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Holiday special: An advanced socialist dessert culture
In my years here, I have participated in passionate and heated debates on virtually all aspects of Chinese politics and society. What is the true nature of the government? Can the Chinese educational system produce creativity? Is the country rising … Continue reading
Tagged China, Food, Resident Alien, Weird
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The almighty soft-power princess bomb
Chinese soft-power is doomed. I came to this conclusion a couple of weeks ago. The message was delivered in the form of a guy in a mouse suit on ice skates, and I received it loud and clear when Mrs. … Continue reading
Tagged China, Parenthood, Pop Culture, Soft Power
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Remembering Talk Talk China and the “Cycle of Funk”
A lot has changed in the China blogosphere since I first put (virtual) pen to paper for Imagethief in June, 2004. I can’t think of many blogs that are still around from those days in anything like their original form. … Continue reading
Tagged China, Internet, Rants, Resident Alien, Sinica
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Missing children and how parenthood killed my chances of being a manly-man
Stick with me here, because I want to plug Charlie Custer’s work-in-progress documentary, Living with Dead Hearts, but before I do I need to go into some history. It’s clear in hindsight that I was never really meant to be … Continue reading
Tagged China, Parenthood, Pop Culture, Resident Alien, The Z Files
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Sinica: The gutter oil podcast (and props from City Weekend!)
I was back on Sinica this week for a lively discussion of China’s serial and apparently unsolvable food quality problems as well as SARFT’s recent ban on Hunan TV’s smash hit performance competition show, “Super Girl.” As usual, the guests … Continue reading
Did Han Han seriously dis Barack Obama?
There was a minor flutter on the China-Twittersphere a day or two ago after Channel News Asia posted a video of a lengthy interview with Chinese uber-blogger/novelist/race-car driver/heartthrob Han Han. It’s worth watching the whole discussion, embedded below, which winds … Continue reading
Tagged China, Internet, Politics, Pop Culture, Public Relations
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Sinica: Libya, Zhao Liang sells out, and slaking North China’s terrible thirst
I was back on Sinica this week for our discussion on China’s reaction to the Libya uprising, the evolving work of documentary film-maker Zhao Liang, and the state of the immense south-north water diversion project. We didn’t have too much … Continue reading
Tagged China, Environment, Media, Politics, Pop Culture, Propaganda, Sinica
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I can haz international funds?
After seven years and change in China it’s hard not to come to the conclusion that the purpose of the Chinese banking system is to keep you from doing anything useful with your money. It is widely said that the … Continue reading
Tagged China, Rants, Resident Alien, Whatever
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Sinica returns! Train wrecks, Weibo and the enigma of David Sedaris
After a couple of months off, Sinica was back last week. It was hard to pass up something as interesting as the high-speed rail disaster on the Wenzhou line, a story that is still unfolding and that I suspect we … Continue reading
Tagged Censorship, China, Coverups, Crisis Management, Food, Internet, Politics, Propaganda, Sinica
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