Is that the cult that killed the woman in the McDonald's
― 龜, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 03:04 (nine years ago) link
the same
― dylannn, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 07:26 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8I5Z01OKvw
http://www.stuckincustoms.com/2014/06/19/dji-quadcopter-china-detention
― dylannn, Sunday, 22 June 2014 09:16 (nine years ago) link
The footage is cool, the "I was detained by POLICE!" part is such a non-story I want to die
― 龜, Sunday, 22 June 2014 12:12 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ho8vAFlCeFQ
Just finished this
Great doc
― 龜, Wednesday, 25 June 2014 12:05 (nine years ago) link
http://www.latimes.com/world/asia/la-fg-china-tiananmen-square-attack-video-20140624-story.html
― 龜, Wednesday, 25 June 2014 16:46 (nine years ago) link
In much less serious news, China is, along with Kenya, a featured country at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival on the national mall in Washington D.C. this year. Not sure who chose the musicians and craftspeople but here's some links:
http://www.festival.si.edu/2014/China/
http://www.festival.si.edu/visitor/evening.aspx special evening concerts with some including : the Flower Drum Lantern performance group, Quanzhou Puppet Troupe, Zhejiang Wu Opera Troupe, singers of hua’er folksongs, Inner Mongolian band Ih Tsetsn, the Miao Music and Dance Group, and the Bimen Brothers and Family, Qiang polyphonic singers.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 25 June 2014 20:21 (nine years ago) link
http://sinosphere.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/06/25/to-chinese-embassy-united-states-address-no-1-liu-xiaobo-plaza/
Good trolling
― 龜, Wednesday, 25 June 2014 23:30 (nine years ago) link
That looks cool, wish I could go! xp
http://news.163.com/14/0626/08/9VLDML4E00011229.html
to celebrate international day against drug abuse and illicit traffickingcctv brings you a televised confession
― dylannn, Thursday, 26 June 2014 13:45 (nine years ago) link
http://sinosphere.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/07/09/go-south-to-guangzhou-a-home-away-from-home/
Good
― 龜, Monday, 14 July 2014 00:08 (nine years ago) link
yeah, i like that
― dylannn, Monday, 14 July 2014 03:46 (nine years ago) link
http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1552822/leading-broadcaster-rui-chenggang-detained-cctv-graft-investigation
fucking rui chenggang gets locked up in a graft investigation
also lol guo meimei boasts about gambling on weibo gets locked up too
http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/celebrity-life/chinas-infamous-guo-meimei-notorious-for-her-extravagant-lifestyle-has-been-arrested-for-illegal-world-cup-gambling/story-fnk822dn-1226987180331
― dylannn, Monday, 14 July 2014 03:48 (nine years ago) link
https://www.facebook.com/notes/penguin-books-in-china/were-hiring-acquisitions-editor/10152292610389331
― 龜, Tuesday, 15 July 2014 10:52 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdnZlynWFMs
NSFW
― 龜, Monday, 28 July 2014 01:33 (nine years ago) link
http://america.aljazeera.com/multimedia/photo-gallery/2014/7/china-s-muslim-women.html
― 龜, Monday, 28 July 2014 22:57 (nine years ago) link
how close to collapse was the existing ccp regime at the time of the tianenmen square protests?
― tao lin comment boxing (nakhchivan), Friday, 22 August 2014 00:39 (nine years ago) link
Before or during? I'd say not very
― 龜, Friday, 22 August 2014 00:52 (nine years ago) link
When you start from as low a place as China did after Mao's death in 76 it's hard for things not to improve and keep on improving
― 龜, Friday, 22 August 2014 00:57 (nine years ago) link
that was my supposition, but the ccp hierarchy possibly felt differently in the midst of it.....that things could spread to other cities, other social groups etc
that is unverifiable of course
― tao lin comment boxing (nakhchivan), Friday, 22 August 2014 00:59 (nine years ago) link
Well the narrative that makes the most sense to me is that the protestors were marching against crony capitalism as much as they were for a form of democratic government and a bill of rights
i.e. the pie was growing very quickly and the hundred surnames sensed that the gains were mostly going to those in the Party
I think the Party probably did balance precariously during the protests, the protests had spread to all major cities nationwide
But if the question is about the danger of collapse from internal factionalism, I don't think that was a threat
― 龜, Friday, 22 August 2014 01:04 (nine years ago) link
idk enough about the facts but i had got the impression that casting it into the human rights freedom and democracy procrustean narrative form was not telling the whole story
― tao lin comment boxing (nakhchivan), Friday, 22 August 2014 01:13 (nine years ago) link
Yeah from what I've read the push for democracy and freedom of [x] is what gets emphasized, it carves a very neat symbolic totem for the West
The initial protests were sparked by students but the momentum was sustained by workers and laborers in addition
― 龜, Friday, 22 August 2014 01:19 (nine years ago) link
I think another way of framing your question nakh is asking how close the PLA was to siding with the protestors
And I think the answer was, not very
But that didn't mean the PLA automatically was going to do the bidding of the CCP either
Calling in the PLA to act on Tiananmen cost the CCP a lot of political capital, I think, and has made the CCP much more susceptible to PLA influence since, on a permanent basis
An authoritarian governments needs a final source of authority, after all
― 龜, Friday, 22 August 2014 02:00 (nine years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/25/world/asia/8-people-executed-in-xinjiang-on-terrorism-charges-china-says.html
― Mordy, Sunday, 24 August 2014 11:46 (nine years ago) link
http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/09/you-guide-to-the-latest-grim-news-out-of-china/379436/
― 龜, Wednesday, 3 September 2014 12:42 (nine years ago) link
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPcap/2000-01/13/086r-011300-idx.html
this is kind of fascinatingxi'an underworldstolen pistollittle orchidbill clintonmassive manhunt
― dylannn, Sunday, 14 September 2014 04:40 (nine years ago) link
not a current event but learned about it from annotation bad translation yi sha poem
― dylannn, Sunday, 14 September 2014 04:41 (nine years ago) link
Read the new-ish Evan Osnos & Howard French books lately, both p.good in a chatty (well, letting others chat) New Yorker-y way.
Seems like Xinjiang's gotten pretty travel-restricted re: needing ID at all times w/it determining whether yr permitted to move outside the region, according to a prof who's just come back from a conference. Was hoping to head to XJU for six months (I'm heading over to GuangWai in early Feb for at least a semester), but I'm not too sure the CI'll be too keen on foreigners in the north-west, heh.
― etc, Sunday, 14 September 2014 23:17 (nine years ago) link
Just promise to faithfully and truthfully report on every ethnic incident you see and I'm sure you'll have no problem
― 龜, Monday, 15 September 2014 14:45 (nine years ago) link
Ma told CNBC that he had got the idea for his business when he visited the US, and looks to Forrest Gump for inspiration. Ma said he had watched the Tom Hanks movie at least 10 times.
“Every time I’m frustrated, I watch the movie,” he said. “I watched the movie again before I came here. It’s telling me: ‘No matter what changes, you are you.’”
― Nothing less than the Spirit of the Age (nakhchivan), Saturday, 20 September 2014 15:33 (nine years ago) link
how the fuck does one company gain 80% of online commerce in china?thats the sort of thing one might expect to see in transnistria
― Nothing less than the Spirit of the Age (nakhchivan), Saturday, 20 September 2014 15:35 (nine years ago) link
http://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/shrimps-Even-Forrest-Gump-would-have_236444271.html
― 龜, Saturday, 20 September 2014 15:45 (nine years ago) link
http://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/POP-Art-Oil-painting_204818927.html
― 龜, Saturday, 20 September 2014 15:46 (nine years ago) link
I would say, probably a first mover advantage + lack of established domestic big box B&M retailers therefore lack of competition from any online presences they might have tried to forge
― 龜, Saturday, 20 September 2014 15:48 (nine years ago) link
http://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/high-quality-hitler-bust_1902562700.html
― Nothing less than the Spirit of the Age (nakhchivan), Saturday, 20 September 2014 15:48 (nine years ago) link
PRetty much every city in China has a place that will do busts to spec of anybody you want, including you
― 龜, Saturday, 20 September 2014 15:50 (nine years ago) link
is that one supposed to be putin
― Nothing less than the Spirit of the Age (nakhchivan), Saturday, 20 September 2014 15:52 (nine years ago) link
Some pics of the last one I encountered
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/9627011/pphotos/IMG_4677.jpg
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/9627011/pphotos/IMG_4679.jpg
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/9627011/pphotos/IMG_4680.jpg
― 龜, Saturday, 20 September 2014 15:54 (nine years ago) link
Seems very common for color posters in China to fade to a cyanish verdigris
― 龜, Saturday, 20 September 2014 15:56 (nine years ago) link
this site is incrediblethe mystery now is 'why only 80%'
― Nothing less than the Spirit of the Age (nakhchivan), Saturday, 20 September 2014 15:57 (nine years ago) link
I've always found it a very unfriendly site from a user experience pov
Tons of keyword spamming
― 龜, Saturday, 20 September 2014 15:58 (nine years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/24/world/asia/china-court-sentences-uighur-scholar-to-life-in-separatism-case.html
― etc, Tuesday, 23 September 2014 08:56 (nine years ago) link
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/28/hong-kong-clashes-kick-start-plans-activists-blockade-city
― etc, Sunday, 28 September 2014 03:46 (nine years ago) link
Came here looking for HK protest talk. I really don't follow the news there, or know the current status quo beyond a vague outline of how HKSAR works in the most general way. Could anything meaningful come of these developments?
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 28 September 2014 06:39 (nine years ago) link
I doubt it
― 龜, Sunday, 28 September 2014 13:47 (nine years ago) link
Also no doubt in mind that the CCP is screwing the pooch here too
― 龜, Sunday, 28 September 2014 13:53 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/HxdqDKP.jpg
Photoshopped??
― 龜, Sunday, 28 September 2014 20:51 (nine years ago) link
Oh looks like it's from 2012
― 龜, Sunday, 28 September 2014 20:52 (nine years ago) link