Live reporting from the Chinese blogger's conference
Breaking news from the Chinese Blogger Conference going on this weekend in Beijing. Hosted by HKU's Journalism and Media Studies Center.
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"We find the scenes [at Pizhou] jarring," said Ye, "because there's no need anymore to beat our gongs and our drums to herald anyone's return in victory. What does that mean? It means that the Communist Party of China has already completed its mission as the party of revolution, and that it must find a position for itself as a party of leadership."
The anger invoked by the Li Lianyu affair, in other words, sends the clear message that this is no longer an age of martyrs and heroes. Chinese owe their allegiance not to cadres and kings, but to a system of universal values.
despite making big fat bags of cash, Hong Kong actors are not falling all over themselves to drop their trousers for Ang Lee. They are, after all, sensitive artists and not depraved puppets who will do whatever they're told in exchange for money. Andy Lau has already made his thoughts known on the matter but the press is having a field day asking actors if they'll show their tackle for Lee.
"I can't trash a famous eighty-year-old journalist's book in his own newspaper."
"Maybe that's why they called you."
longer version at the New York Press, Issue 20.43.The eight foreign residents who will each carry the torch for 200 meters on Chinese soil next year are, in order of winning votes: Jenny Bowen of the US, Marcos Torres of the Philippines, Werner Ebel of Germany, Meena Barot of India, Yoshitoshi Mizuya of Japan, Luis Hong-Sanchez of Colombia, Yury Ilyakhin of Russia and British-Venezuelan Deirdre Smyth.
The eight expatriates are amongst 19,400 Chinese people who will carry the torch at some stage in its journey across China.To all the other superlatives used to describe China we may now add the fact that it has the tastiest cigarettes. I don't pretend to be a connoisseur, having only begun smoking a couple weeks ago, but then again I've been inhaling the smoke of Chinese cigarettes for years...
The Yunnan government has announced that beginning on January 1 of next year, Yunnan province will eliminate the current hukou registration system that essentially binds rural Yunnanese to their officially registered place of residence - often their place of birth or where their parents are registered. This reform of the system currently in use will enable millions to legally move and integrate into cities for the first time.
We might not be able to access Wikipedia in China (or Youtube or Blogger or...) but at least we can wake up in the morning in Beijing and get a piping hot loaf of 'Wekipedia' bread.
Despite the expansion of Beijing Capital International Airport nearing completion, the civil aviation authority is already considering the construction of a fourth runway or second international airport to cope with soaring passenger numbers.
Yes, the Xbox 360 hardware is totally broken for pirated games...however, if you leave your mod chip active MS will detect it and shut you out of Xbox Live. I have heard rumours of mod chips that can be switched off so that it toggle between a modded Xbox and an unmodded one to go on Live. I have brought many MS Xbox people to the shops here in China that do the modding (its not illegal to install the chip as far as I know but it is illegal to technically sell the console)
The article contains a link to an earlier report on the seizure of 10,000 modded consoles from a bootleg shop in Hong Kong last week.China's top legislature on Sunday approved the cabinet nomination of Meng Jianzhu, former Party chief of east China's Jiangxi Province, as the country's new minister of Public Security.
Meng, of Han nationality and born in 1947 in Wuxian County of Jiangsu Province, joined the Communist Party of China (CPC) in 1971.
Meng is (surprise, surprise!) an engineer.