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On the relative failure of Chen Tianqiao and Shanda. Relative compared to Tencent, Baidu, Alibaba etc

I am a patriot. I would love to see a little island added to our vast territory of this great nation. But I would much prefer to see the names of countless of extinguished souls engraved on humble memorials in my country.

Li Chengpeng is a writer and a blogger who has over five million followers on Sina Weibo, the Chinese version of Twitter. This article was adapted from a longer article posted online on the fourth anniversary of the Sichuan earthquake earlier this month. It was translated from the Chinese by Jane Weizhen Pan.

Yang Rui's Lost Tweets Part 1: Foreign Trash and Foreign Bitches

At the time of its re-creation as a ballet, “The Red Detachment” was credited to a collective creation group of the Central Ballet of China – individuals did not get creative credits during the Cultural Revolution.  However, named or not, it still had individual creators – and Mr. Liang was clearly one of them.  When China’s first copyright law came into effect in 1991, the China Daily reports, Mr. Liang contacted the ballet to negotiate a royalty payment; he eventually received RMB 5,000.  The lawsuit has come about because Mr. Liang – who is now in his late 80s – and his daughter and son-in-law say that the initial agreement was for a ten-year term; they are asking for RMB 550,000 in compensation for royalties unpaid since then.

A war of words subsequently began online between Qihoo 360 CEO Zhou Hongyi and Xiaomi founder Lei Jun. In a microblog post, Zhou called Lei the bully of the market, who thought no one else could enter the budget smartphone sector.

Firefighters were brought in to inflate a bouncy tarp and position it underneath the man.

With almost no chance to win government contracts or those related to infrastructure projects, Huawei has been forced to limit its business focuses to sectors like retail, education,and medical services, said Shen Jingyang, CEO of Huawei's US subsidiary

Infrastructure construction has replaced real estate development as the major consumer of land plots during the first three months of 2012, the latest official data shows.

Li Ka-shing, the 83-year-old owner of Hong Kong's biggest supermarket chain and with assets globally in telecommunications, oil and real estate, remains actively involved in the operations of his flagship blue-chip companies. On Friday he said he had no plans to retire anytime soon, but sought to put to rest frequent media speculation in the city on the future of his multi-billion dollar companies.

The growing unease toward foreigners in Beijing may have claimed an unexpected casualty: a community theater production of "Oklahoma!"

Last week, a cast of foreign and local thespians were told by Beijing authorities just before they hit the stage that they wouldn't be able to perform the 1943 musical about two cowboys in love with a pair of farm girls.

They are not about Confucius.  Rather, the PRC government has chosen to use the name of Confucius as a trademark of sorts for a global soft power branding project.  The Institutes, most of which in the US are hosted by colleges or universities, focus on language learning, with a variety of other cultural activities: Lunar New Year parties: calligraphy; a little Peking Opera; etc.  As far as I can tell - and I have been in conversation with many US academics who have CIs on their campuses (my college does not have one) - there is no systematic effort to engage with Confucian thought in any serious manner. 

Indeed, I find no direct reference to Confucius the man and thinker on their English language web page;