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Danwei Picks: Filming contemporary Chinese societyPosted by Joel Martinsen, January 28, 2008 5:46 PM
Danwei Picks is a daily digest of the "From the Web" links found on the Danwei homepage. A feed for the links as they are posted throughout the day is available at Feedsky (in China) or Feedburner (outside China). Video: Please Vote for Me: From China Digital Times: Please Vote for Me, an award-winning documentary directed by Weijun Chen, takes a closer look at an interesting social experiment with democracy in China. The link contains a Youtube clip.
This has nothing to do, really, with the censors. This is because of pressure from the top – from a very high level. That’s why it has happened before the Summer Olympics, the Chinese government wants to have so-called "clean air." In their language, LOST IN BEIJING has created a very negative image of society. On the internet someone released a pirated copy of the film containing sexual imagery that was cut from the movie and that’s why the situation is so severe. The Propaganda Department became concerned about this and the pressure is probably coming from the Political Bureau.
Propaganda Department Minister:
Although the government subsequently sacked local officials and liberated the children, some of them had sustained injuries for which their parents cannot afford treatment. Other parents have been unable to locate their children after the closure of the factory. The Global Voices post has also translated the details of how to donate the the bloggers' fund that aims to assist parents of the slave children who need financial assistance.
Bruce Dover, an Australian, was Mr Murdoch's man in Beijing until 1998. He has written a rare insider's account of how the Chinese got the better of a businessman who usually gets what he wants.
The venture, Baosteel Victoria Iron & Steel Co Ltd in the southern Brazilian state of Espirito Santo, will be Baosteel's first steel mill outside China, the report said.
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