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15 days ago by maciej
if you haven’t experienced August in Beijing you can simulate it by tying yourself to a burning coal stove and then having your friends hurl you into an open sewer
beijing
heat
rant
china
15 days ago by maciej
Imagethief : E-Z steps to make your own Beijing air at home
july 2008 by maciej
god I love this blog
china
environment
olympics
ha
from delicious
july 2008 by maciej
Imagethief : Why the Yilishen ant farming scandal was the perfect China story
february 2008 by maciej
100% distilled awesome
blog
china
ants
ha
media
february 2008 by maciej
Ben's Blog - American working in Chinese Barbershop
may 2007 by maciej
American blogger in Fuzhou apprentices himself for a month to a regular barbershop. "Throughout the month I will have only three days off, and work the rest from 9 am to 8 pm. I will essentially be a slave to my job which for one month pays what I would m
fuzhou
china
work
class
blog
experiment
labor
may 2007 by maciej
China's Media Controls: Could Bloggers Make a Difference?
april 2007 by maciej
not as wanky as it sounds
china
internet
law
april 2007 by maciej
Chairman Mao Zedong Quotes
april 2007 by maciej
quotes are a snoozefest but the photos are great
china
communism
mao
quotes
reference
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april 2007 by maciej
EastSouthWestNorth: The Second WoW War
march 2007 by maciej
more Chinese WoW shenanigans. Looks like guilds are planting stories to try and hound rivals off the intarwebs
wow
china
game
sex
mmorpg
march 2007 by maciej
Media and the future of Tiger Leaping Gorge
october 2006 by maciej
China planning to build another inane megadam in another beautiful spot (this one in Yunnan)
enviro
eco
dam
idiot
china
megaloconstruction
hydrology
yunnan
october 2006 by maciej
The American Chamber of Commerce - People's Republic of China
october 2006 by maciej
amcham commentary on the proposed labor law reforms, explaining why offering the most basic rights to low-wage workers will destroy China
crapitalism
objectivist
dickens
labor
china
econ
hate
exploit
union
reform
work
october 2006 by maciej
Joseph de Guignes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
october 2006 by maciej
interesting and kooky early Orientalist who maintained that Chinese characters were derived from Egyptian colonization
egypt
china
wikipedia
orientalist
chinese
philology
huns
hist
france
october 2006 by maciej
Jane Goodall In Beijing
october 2006 by maciej
notes from her recent lecture
beijing
goodall
self-promotion
chimpanzee
forest
eco
bio
lecture
notes
china
africa
leakey
october 2006 by maciej
The 88s :: A “Blame China” Fisking :: October :: 2006
october 2006 by maciej
a nice demolishing of a really stupid north korea article by anne applebaum
dprk
pundit
crush
china
politics
nukes
proliferation
rant
october 2006 by maciej
The desertification of China
october 2006 by maciej
'The desertification rehabilitation program thus far has consisted largely of fencing in the nearby sand and erecting signs proclaiming: "Controlling the Desert, State Focus Point."'
environment
eco
china
desert
policy
politics
disaster
october 2006 by maciej
VOA News - Chinese Activist Gao Arrested
october 2006 by maciej
Gao Zhisheng is a lawyer and human rights activist. China seems to be going after the most vocal of those who try to work within the legal system
law
china
oppress
gao
zhisheng
activism
october 2006 by maciej
China Vs. My Husband - washingtonpost.com
october 2006 by maciej
wapo article by chen guangcheng's wife about his false imprisonment and sham trial
oppress
china
abortion
chen
guangcheng
shandong
law
october 2006 by maciej
Chinese Activist Gets Jail Sentence - Los Angeles Times
october 2006 by maciej
summary of the circus trial of Chen Guangcheng, blind activist who is being held incommunicado for exposing a forced abortion policy in Shandong province. Searches on his name are blocked in china.
china
oppress
chen
guangcheng
activism
abortion
law
justice
october 2006 by maciej
No More Chinese Whispers - James McGregor
october 2006 by maciej
"China doesn't really know what it wants to be next. It just knows that it doesn't want to be what it used to be: a feudal country that foreigners could carve up like a ripe melon" Really nice analysis of the US - China relationship and its dysfunctions
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politics
international
relations
analysis
interesting
us
october 2006 by maciej
Imagethief : Chinese tourists in spaaaaace
october 2006 by maciej
very funny imagethief post about Chinese tourist habits. I like the part about stealing tour group flags in the forbidden city - I've wondered what would happen then myself
china
tourism
space
ha
culture
aggro
imagethief
beijing
october 2006 by maciej
Models for the 2-jiao RMB note
october 2006 by maciej
funny "where are they now" look at the models used for some Chinese currency. Nowadays it's all Mao, less fun
china
currency
money
design
danwei
october 2006 by maciej
Bloomberg.com: Economic figures for china
october 2006 by maciej
crazy growth continues despite efforts to cool things down
stats
econ
china
bloomberg
politics
globalization
october 2006 by maciej
花崗齋雜記 Jottings from the Granite Studio
october 2006 by maciej
Fantastic china blog by a western historian living in Beijing
china
blog
interesting
hist
october 2006 by maciej
Tales of old Shanghai - Library
october 2006 by maciej
absolutely fantastic collection of old English-language writing about China
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lib
china
cult
hist
colonialism
cool
lit
october 2006 by maciej
Photos of three chinese weddings - 猫扑白领--富家公子与打工崽的婚礼，有差距吗？
october 2006 by maciej
great photo spread showing how weddings get more fun as you move down the class ladder
wedding
china
econ
class
photo
album
cult
october 2006 by maciej
Granite Studio: Those who don't learn from history, blah, blah, blah
october 2006 by maciej
historical context for China's dangerous strategy of playing off nearby foreign armies against each other
dprk
north_korea
china
hist
ha
october 2006 by maciej
花崗齋雜記 Jottings from the Granite Studio: This Date in History: Chairman Hua
october 2006 by maciej
amusing blog post about Hua Guofeng, the Chinese Gerald Ford
hist
china
communism
party
mao
hua
october 2006 by maciej
Pere David's deer, Milu
october 2006 by maciej
However, on May 17, 1865, Pere David convinced the guards to allow him to look once over the wall. As luck would have it, a herd of these deer happened to walk by at that very moment - a moment which would amaze both the missionary and the scientific wor
eco
animal
zoo
endangered
china
deer
bio
october 2006 by maciej
National Day - idlewords.com
october 2006 by maciej
Train travel in China with crab
marine
china
travel
self-promotion
blog
october 2006 by maciej
QLRS - Criticism : A T'ang Canon | Vol. 3 No. 4 Jul 2004
october 2006 by maciej
READY THE TANG CANNON
tang
china
lit
poetry
review
crit
october 2006 by maciej
300 Tang poems - Tang Shi
october 2006 by maciej
lots and lots and lots of translated Chinese poetry
tang
poetry
china
lit
cult
translation
reference
etext
qing
october 2006 by maciej
Keep walking....
october 2006 by maciej
my friend wendy's english-language blog
china
blog
friends
beijing
october 2006 by maciej
Elite Chinese Politics and Political Economy - Cheng Liangyu
october 2006 by maciej
really comprehensive 'inside baseball' analysis on jockeying for power at the top of the Chinese politburo. Useful capsule description of the two main currents in the Chinese leadership
china
politics
shanghai
scandal
analysis
october 2006 by maciej
Dead Bachelors in Remote China Still Find Wives - New York Times
october 2006 by maciej
the post-mortem marriage scene in the loess plateau
china
marriage
culture
wtf
weird_china
october 2006 by maciej
“World’s rubbish dump” pays price for European recycling boom
october 2006 by maciej
the dark underbelly of the recycling fad
china
pollution
eco
recycling
granola
environment
oppress
october 2006 by maciej
FCC - China Adoption Statistics
september 2006 by maciej
nice font choice, guys
idiot
stats
adoption
china
ha
september 2006 by maciej
China announces new regulations on foreign media - MarketWatch
september 2006 by maciej
all news published in china must now go through xinhua. This looks aimed especially at financial info networks like bloomberg
press
china
freedom
oppress
finance
september 2006 by maciej
EastSouthWestNorth: The Case of Dai Haijing
september 2006 by maciej
extraordinary public demonstrations at Tangxia over what looks like the coverup of the murder of a local woman by her wealthy abusive husband. Photos of a full-scale riot unreported in the mainland media
china
riot
politics
oppress
crime
photojournalism
september 2006 by maciej
People's Daily Online -- Water quality under threat in Beijing
september 2006 by maciej
Residents said the high-quality sand around the reservoir attracted the illegal sand-diggers, most of whom are from outside Beijing. They usually work at night and transport sand by trucks.
sand
beijing
ha
environment
water
crime
china
september 2006 by maciej
In China, Delicately Testing the Taboo on Talking About Sex
september 2006 by maciej
notes from a massively repressed society. Sexual mores in China remind me of the 1930's stateside, except for the widespread abortion thing
sex
china
education
mores
september 2006 by maciej
Meng Guangmei and Toiletgate: The latest Chinese Internet swarm
september 2006 by maciej
another in(s)ane tempest in a teapot, as a chinese pop celebrity dares to criticize the glorious people's public toilets on taiwanese television
china
cult
wtf
toilet
taiwan
prc
interweb
september 2006 by maciej
The View from Taiwan: Protecting "our" females
september 2006 by maciej
brilliant blog post putting the spat over chinabounder into a wider context of widespread sex tourism and human trafficking in asia
chinabounder
sex
tourism
asia
exploit
taiwan
china
september 2006 by maciej
上海教授追查流氓老外 - Beijing daily on chinabounder
august 2006 by maciej
help help translate
china
sex
blog
chinabounder
august 2006 by maciej
上海教授追查流氓老外_新闻中心_新浪网 - Sina.cn discovers chinabounder blogger
august 2006 by maciej
help help translation
china
chinabounder
blog
sex
scandal
online
culture
august 2006 by maciej
EastSouthWestNorth: The Death of the Hukou-less Baby
august 2006 by maciej
heartbreaking story of the pressures imposed by china's internal passport system
china
hukou
oppress
politics
migrant
urban
journalism
august 2006 by maciej
The Levitator - controversy over publication of new Mao bio in taiwan
august 2006 by maciej
details on accusations and counter-accusations about whether a bigwig kuomintang general was a commie
china
politics
kuomintang
taiwan
mao
history
controversy
bio
august 2006 by maciej
Elite Chinese Politics and Political Economy
august 2006 by maciej
very intelligent blog by a northwestern prof specializing in chinese political tea-leaf reading
politics
china
blog
polisci
sinology
august 2006 by maciej
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