March 14, 2007
Today's Links: Peasants, pests and the Supreme People’s Procuratorate
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"Yuan, who had been a peasant in the late 1960s, noted it is 'uncivilized' to affix derogative connotations to peasant, which for him usually means guilelessness, diligence, and the down-to-earth spirit." They also link to a song called "Peasant."
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"Only authorized dramas are allowed on Chinese prime-time television, customs inspectors are seizing books on Mao Zedong at China's borders and newspapers are prohibited from running stories on the Communist Party's misdeeds." Has anyone here had a book confiscated at the border?
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"With a nod to history, Chinese politicians have drawn up a list of 'four pests' to be eradicated before the 2008 Olympic Games - smoking, spitting, queue-jumping and cursing."
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"Saturday sees Shanghai joining a jolly green club that includes member cities around the world. The city's first St Patrick's Day Parade gets underway at noon at the Xintiandi lakeside and is set to demonstrate the fun-loving nature of the Irish and their ever-increasing presence here in Shanghai."
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"The Internet communication capacity between China and the United States will be enhanced 60 times the present level once a new Sino-US undersea cable is built by the end of next year." We'll be connected with Oregon.
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"Xinhua reports that 11 suspects wanted for embezzlement were extradited from overseas last year and 77.2 million yuan (about 9.9 million U.S. dollars) was retrieved, according to the Supreme People’s Procuratorate."
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"China’s coalmine death rate per million tons is some 50-fold higher than the rates in many developed countries, sending alarming signals to the state work safety body."
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"A group of Shanghai residents have appealed to the German Chancellor to stop the extension of the Transrapid line near their homes. While some are angry at being evicted to make way for the track, others fear increased noise, magnetic radiation and possible accidents."
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"Presenting a work report to the annual session of the 10th National People's Congress (NPC), Xiao, who is president of the Supreme People's Court (SPC), said a total of 825 government officials ranking above county level were sentenced in 2006."
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"After a row with developers, this family's home has been left perched 12m (40ft) up on its own concrete island." Great photo! Thanks, Timothy!
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Video of two Shanghai dogs jumping.
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Johnnie Walker loooooooves China.
Photo by 2 dogs found via the Shanghaiist Contribute page.
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Outright lie!!!
I brought many banned books from abroad including that b*tch's Mao,the unknown story, never got problem.
"peasant" may not be a bad word but no one respects or cares for them, especially the gov't.
Stuff on Mao is old hat, the newest thing is a book by the guy who was kept under house arrest since 6...4 and is now for sale in HK. I've got 9 theories if anyone is interested.
Shanghai is ready for St. Patty's day 365 days a year. The water has lots of green in it and sometimes the air does too.
coal mine blasts...
hmm...
interesting, prior to 1978, before "socialism" with chinese characteristics, it just didn't seem to happen as much
ditto for fake milk powder, fake eggs, you name it
Death to you, capitalism
time-blog.com/china_blog/2007/03/theres_the_rub.html
Bad china beats pandas for natural acts.
The "home becomes an island" reminds me of a certain firehouse in a classic Disney movie:
http://www.ultimatedisney.com/images/herbiera1.jpg
(Above was the best pic I could find, but the image of the firehouse between two towering skyscrapers burned itself into my brain long ago.)
The coal mine blasts (that happened al the time but just weren't reported in the past) are not due to capitalism, but due to corrupt Chinese people not caring about other Chinese people's lives.
Corrupt officials not caring about other chinese people's lives huh...
wow, thanks for the enlightenment
And I suppose you never for once in your life paused to think about what is the ultimate underlying motive for these corrupt officials doing so?
Hmm...
could it be because they have an incentive to run woefully under-equipped and dangerous mines and pump out as much coal as possible?
And why may that be?
Could it be...(gasp)...for...Pr...Pr...Prof..Profit?
DEATH TO YOU, CAPITALISM, PLAGUE AND DEATH, I WISH UPON YOU THE MOST HORRIBLE SUFFERING POSSIBLE,JUST LIKE WHAT YOU HAVE DONE TO MY COUNTRY
I understand Tony Tang's anger. However it is his own government that decided to open up to capitalism, no one forced them, they could as well have remained a total communist country as DPRK. HURRAH for DPRK! The greatest model of all!
DPRK...communist?
A fat fuck and his son who owns God knows how many billions, has mansions all over the world...
while his people starve...
communist?
Sounds a little...hmm...(gasp)...capitalist to me...
haha by ur reply on DPRK u avoided my first remark, so i imagine u just dunno what to say about it.
Shall we talk about Cuba then?