CCP Censors CNN

Because my parents are visiting Beijing, I’m taking a break from life on the Bei Shi Da campus, and relaxing in their hotel room. I turned on CNN to see if there had been an update on the foiled terrorist attacks in London. Nothing new. The anchor then started reporting on Hu Jintao’s visit to [...]

CCP drops plan that would force netizens to use real names online

According to Mure Dickie at The Financial Times, “China has put aside proposals to force internet users to use their real names when signing up for blogging services – and will now merely encourage them to do so.”
Xinhua reports that decision was made due to objections from blog-hosting companies who were
worried that many users [...]

Perry Link on Censorship in China

Professor Link taught me first-year Chinese, and I took his course on 20th century Chinese literature last fall. Although the Chinese government isn’t his biggest fan (he’s banned from China), we all love him here at Princeton (even though he intimidates the crap out of most of us). RFA Unplugged has a link to his [...]

Essay series #1: Comparing Chinese Blogs and Big Character Posters. Part 1.

I thought it would be interesting to post some of the essays I’ve written about China’s media, literature and culture in a set of series (so online essay sites don’t pick them up all at once and sell them to high schoolers for $30).
This first essay is one comparing Chinese Blogs and Big Character Posters [...]

At the Chinese Consulate

I applied for my visa  at the Chinese consulate last Friday. One thing bothered me: I had to tell them my e-mail address. I had left that spot blank on the application form because I couldn’t see how their having my e-mail address was remotely necessary. A consulate official made me fill it out, though, [...]

Frustrations

I’m the president of a human rights group on campus. I usually really enjoy my role in the organization, but over the past three weeks, I’ve had to do two things that I feel bad about.
I had to reprimand two of my officers. About four weeks ago, our group decided to screen the movie Blood [...]

China’s government to force gamers and bloggers to use their real names and ID numbers

In their never ending question to regulate and control the Internet, the Chinese government has adopted a policy that requires players of online games and bloggers (including those who only post blog comments) to register using their state-issued identification cards.
Chinese leaders recently announced a broad push to “purify” the internet of socially and politically suspect [...]

The Genocide Olympics

The China Daily website’s front page is running a story titled “Beijing hits out at Games boycott calls,” which, by not contradicting the story’s featured government official, by not acknowledging a link between China’s behavior and the ongoing genocide, criticizes those who’re calling for a boycott of the 2008 Olympics because they recognize that China’s [...]