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- China: “Destroy Japanese Anime!” [Sankaku Complex] "A recent comment by Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao decrying the lack of Chinese anime has incited a flurry of online support, with Chinese net users vigorously denouncing Japanese anime."
- Chinese Hunger for Sons Fuels Boys’ Abductions [NYTimes] "These and thousands of other children stolen from the teeming industrial hubs of China’s Pearl River Delta have never been recovered by their parents or by the police. But anecdotal evidence suggests the children do not travel far. Although some are sold to buyers in Singapore, Malaysia and Vietnam, most of the boys are purchased domestically by families desperate for a male heir, parents of abducted children and some law enforcement officials who have investigated the matter say."
- Bill Schiller on one man's quest [TheStar.com] "In China, noted designer and blogger Ai Wei Wei is on something of a lonely quest for justice. The Star's Bill Schiller explains, via Skype, from Beijing."
- Shanzhai Green is People! [卦Trigram 2.0] So, here I am in China, I’m from an internet & knowledge background, and I’m interested in development and green issues. Once I read some of Paul’s ’shanzhai’ thoughts, I realized - here it is, the new focus: “shanzhai green“. In other words, China’s rural population have tremendous talent, which they can use if given ideas.
- Stand still, wimp - only failures run off to be expats [Times Online] "The fact of the matter is this: every single person who ever moves to another country - with the exception of America where you go to grow - is a failure." Oooh, satire that's bound to brew controversy. How exciting!
- What Happened to Gao Zhisheng? [The New Yorker] "In a measure of how much the case has rattled even the most experienced China-watchers, Jerome Cohen, the co-director of N.Y.U’s U.S.-Asia Law Institute, and a venerable expert on Chinese law, says, 'Gao’s fate makes his case resemble those of the ‘disappeared’ in Latin American dictatorships.'"
- China Geeks translates an article by Hu Yong: "In Lu Chuan’s new film Nanjing, Nanjing!, the camera lens reveals cruelty to an extreme rarely seen in Chinese films; I had nightmares repeatedly the night after I watched it. In its hellish scenes, women are raped to death, men are massacred in every possible manner. The darkness of humanity, or perhaps it is just a flicker, explodes out of people with suffocating intensity. Clearly, Lu Chuan is doing his best [to show] this tragedy from seventy years ago originally was common people faced with fate and the extermination of souls in the midst of historic calamity, and from this show affirmation and respect for the value of human life. It’s a pity that the promulgation of Lu Chuan’s art still won't overcome the enveloping inertia of reality."
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