Time for a net video tv channel?
John Kennedy at Global Voices links to some uploaded videos and provides a bit of background for clips of a shoplifter, a few eviction conflicts, and a number of other protests.
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John Kennedy at Global Voices links to some uploaded videos and provides a bit of background for clips of a shoplifter, a few eviction conflicts, and a number of other protests.
Benjamin Ross, barbershop trainee, learns the value of enthusiastic customer service: Over 400 huan yin guang lin's later, Mr. Zheng reiterated the rules. 'Customer service IS the most important aspect of this business. Starting tomorrow, whenever a customer comes in that door, I better hear 'huan ying guang lin' from all of you. No more slacking.'
A review of Karen S. Kingsbury's translation of Love in a Fallen City, which includes four novellas and two short stories: I would like tentatively to advance the thesis that Chang's fiction articulates a 'poetics of the social' that underlies both her marginalization and her enduring attraction. By 'the social,' I mean the experiential and interpersonal dimensions of human existence. A poetics of the social is a literary rendering of the dynamics of social interactions and symbolic engagements.
The first edition of the tabloid-style Military Weekly comes with a front page article that seems to compare Chinese with Jews and a full-page Maotai advertisement that congratulates Military Weekly on its change of format.
Bill Dodson at This is China! Weblog writes about his encounters with John Freeman, a man wanted by the FBI for child molestation: 'Given he was wanted for a felon, he was the most obtrusive criminal I've set my eyes on. He was given to hanging out on the Bar Street with the young ladies until the wee hour, reclined curbside in a white plastic chair when the weather was fair. He was proud of the fact that he punched the cars of Chinese drivers that were pushy or just plain lousy at the steering wheel. He bragged he once punched the front of a bus that was pushing through a traffic crossing at which pedestrians clearly had the right of way.'
From Josie Liu at China in Transition, commentary on the reaction to the most recent stage in the long process of constructing the Grand Theater: filling the 35,000 square meter reflecting pool.
Australia's ABC television program 'Mediawatch' has broadcast a segment about the lengthy profile of Rupert Murdoch's wife that was censored from Australia's Good Weekend magazine. The article linked here is a transcript of the program.
Tian Feng, manager of Binzhou Futian Biology Technology, which U.S. pet food distributors have identified as the company that sold them wheat flour containing melamine and related products. Tian's company was shut by local police on April 25, the day he was detained. 'I didn't do anything wrong,' Tian said in an interview with CNN from the detention center in Binzhou in China's eastern Shandong Province.
ESWN translates: In a documentary about the 228 Incident shown on Taiwan's SETTV, footage from a Shanghai execution was included to illustrate KMT brutality. Intentionally misleading, or simply space-filling visuals?
When Pulitzer prize winner Peter Arnett was reporting from the frontline of the Vietnam war, the last thing he had to worry about was censorship, but that's not the case for the Chinese journalism students who are hanging on his every word.
As the students at southern China's Shantou University listen to Arnett talk about his experiences as a war correspondent, it is easy to forget that their greatest concern as professional journalists will be ensuring they do not run foul of the communist party that governs their country.
This long process of capitalist reforms was guided by the firm hand of the main leaders of the Chinese Communist Party and the Stalinist bureaucracy, which did not limit themselves to being the mere stewards of capitalism, but which finally assumed the role of protagonist of the counter-revolution, transforming themselves into an important part of the new class of owners. It is not wonder that they are so interested in guaranteeing their new individual properties and rights by law.