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[Updated] Xinjiang riot leaves scores dead
The Xinjiang Riots: What's happened so far
Around Shanghai: No more airplane temperature checks, but we're getting a Wall St. Bull and Linkin Park!
"Oracle Bone" essayist fails gaokao, but gets into Sichuan University
Photos: July 4th Celebration @ Boxing Cat Brewery
- When it comes to building "fire-fighting" robots, Shanghai kicks ass.
- China's internet portals unite! "We absolutely oppose to indecent on-line messages that are against social virtues and Chinese people's good culture and traditions."
- IKEA to open seven more China stores before 2010 (and Shanghaiist's brother is still IKEA-less in Honolulu).
- Beijing's first SPAM court case involves a company called Shanghai Yiteng Enterprise Management Consulting Company, the alleged spammer. A Beijing woman says the company's bulk emails have cost her time and money. How much is she suing for? RMB 1,100. That'll teach 'em!
- What should you do if you live in Beijing and your PC shows you the "blue screen of death"? Well, first thing you should do is buy a Mac. If that's not possible, head to "China's Silicon Valley."
- The Economist arrives quite a bit late to the Back Dorm Boys phenomenon.
- Eight Chinese officials lose jobs over polluted lakes.
- Want to be a pop singer in Shanghai? Make sure you get certified.
- Virtual China takes a look at cool maps.
- If someone offers you sex for 30 kuai, there's a good chance you will end up broke ... or dead.
- The Hangzhou-Shanghai high speed train is looking at "many ways" to raise US$4.37 billion (sorry Terence). Meanwhile, the even more pricey Beijing-Shanghai line should begin construction this year.
- More than 40 percent of Chinese internet users think internet shops are "absolutely not trustworthy."
- The Shanghai World Financial Center is getting taller.
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$4.37? I have that in my wallet. I'll even donate it to the train project.
the economist is way late, but what's worse is that
patronizing tone:
How to make Confucian communists squirm and the last line ridiculing the professor at the provincial academy of aesthetics.
the whole confucian communists thing--the concepts all make sense but taken as a whole, it becomes so nebulous as to be completely worthless, unless of course, your point is just to make a up a snazzy headline.
the second point is just mean, because it's easy to ridicule some old conservative, marxist social theory trained intellectual cum bureaucrat when you're ostensibly a western trained intellectual that knows what's what and therefore can wink your sarcastic eye at everything and everyone, except in many cases, yourself.
when you ask what is at stake--both in the backstreet dorm boys/super voice girls phenomenon and the concomitant media reports in the west the answer is a big fat 'nothing'. the boys did it for fun, and the Economist responds with a boilerplate analysis--it makes one doubly cynical.