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- Happy Belated Birthday, Communist China 4:48am Oct 7
- China Lifts One-Child Policy, Sort of 8:28pm Jul 26
- The “Tank Man” Documentary 7:32am May 16
I missed China’s big 6-0 here on Flumesday, but there were a couple things of note I thought I’d throw up on here, for the benefit of my readers (basically my Uncle Michael at this point). The first is a link to something really brilliant written at the Huffington Post by my favorite writer. I...
Big news out of China this weekend: the government is now encouraging couples in Shanghai to have two kids, a reversal of the country’s famous “one-child policy” — the federal mandate instituted in 1979 to control China’s raging population. But wit...
A new book, Prisoner of the State: The Secret Journal of Premier Zhao Ziyang, to be released Tuesday, documents the dissent from China’s former leader over the Tiananmen Square crackdown of 1989. ...
For those who may not have seen The Tank Man, I’m posting here as an essential part of Flumesday’s effort to provide the most interesting stories on Tiananmen leading up to the 20th anniversary. The Frontline doc isn’t anything new — it aired in April, 2006 on PBS. But it...
As June 4th draws nearer, many will be looking back twenty years and observing China’s most shameful memory — the government massacre in Tiananmen Square that left hundreds dead. Bu...
With a month to go before the 20-year anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre or crackdown or whatever you choose to call it, news publications are already beginning to run pieces on the 20 years since the massacre, and what has become of all those bright-eyed students and youths who chose to...
A strange, strange story in the New York Times today looks at the grass-mud horse craze in China, an effort by a fed-up Chinese citizenry to mock Beijing’s web censorship. ...
In a breaking story Monday morning, the Chinese navy has pulled a high school-style prank on a U.S. vessel in the South China sea...
The World Baseball Classic rolls on today without the Small Red Machine, the Chinese national team, eliminated Sunday by Beijing Olympic champs South Korea...
As McClatchy reporter Tim Johnson aptly put it in an article Tuesday, Oasis got “Bjorked.” The term refers to the concert fiasco in Shanghai last year when Bjork repeatedly yelled “Free Tibet” during her performance. As a r...
A handsome guy over at the Huffington Post published a post about the mass censorship around Asia during last week’s broadcast of the Oscars. ...
Nothing sweetens an ongoing cultural property dispute like a little blackmail...
As McClatchy reporter Tim Johnson aptly put it in an article Tuesday, Oasis got “Bjorked.” The term refers to the concert fiasco in Shanghai last year when Bjork repeatedly yelled “Free Tibet” during her performance. As a r...
