Rolling Chinese Dream 2014

http://sinosphere.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/06/25/to-chinese-embassy-united-states-address-no-1-liu-xiaobo-plaza/

Good trolling

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 trafficking
cctv brings you a televised confession

http://sinosphere.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/07/09/go-south-to-guangzhou-a-home-away-from-home/

Good

yeah, i like that

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

https://www.facebook.com/notes/penguin-books-in-china/were-hiring-acquisitions-editor/10152292610389331

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdnZlynWFMs

NSFW

http://america.aljazeera.com/multimedia/photo-gallery/2014/7/china-s-muslim-women.html

how close to collapse was the existing ccp regime at the time of the tianenmen square protests?

Before or during? I'd say not very

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

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

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

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

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

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

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/25/world/asia/8-people-executed-in-xinjiang-on-terrorism-charges-china-says.html

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/09/you-guide-to-the-latest-grim-news-out-of-china/379436/

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPcap/2000-01/13/086r-011300-idx.html

this is kind of fascinating
xi'an underworld
stolen pistol
little orchid
bill clinton
massive manhunt

not a current event but
learned about it from annotation bad translation yi sha poem

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.

Just promise to faithfully and truthfully report on every ethnic incident you see and I'm sure you'll have no problem

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.’”

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

http://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/shrimps-Even-Forrest-Gump-would-have_236444271.html

http://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/POP-Art-Oil-painting_204818927.html

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

http://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/high-quality-hitler-bust_1902562700.html

PRetty much every city in China has a place that will do busts to spec of anybody you want, including you

is that one supposed to be putin

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

Seems very common for color posters in China to fade to a cyanish verdigris

this site is incredible
the mystery now is 'why only 80%'

I've always found it a very unfriendly site from a user experience pov

Tons of keyword spamming

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/24/world/asia/china-court-sentences-uighur-scholar-to-life-in-separatism-case.html

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/28/hong-kong-clashes-kick-start-plans-activists-blockade-city

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?

I doubt it

Also no doubt in mind that the CCP is screwing the pooch here too

http://i.imgur.com/HxdqDKP.jpg

Photoshopped??

Oh looks like it's from 2012

http://i.imgur.com/5eHxznT.jpg

h/t ken c

http://www.vox.com/2014/9/28/6856621/hong-kong-protests-clashes-china-explainer

Hard to truly appreciate how bad Max Fisher is until he writes about something close to you

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2688692/china-blocks-instagram-mentions-of-tear-gas-amid-hong-kong-protests.html

x-post- uh, why is Max so bad? I know little about Hong Kong and China I confess.

He brings all the clarity of someone who headed his high school's Model UN congregation

https://time.com/3444164/hong-kongs-protesters-are-fighting-for-their-economic-future/

I think this is a much better overview of the issues at hand fwiw

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/china-warns-hong-kong-protesters-of-unimaginable-consequences/2014/10/02/245eb391-e506-4c24-9cdc-f1c62528e6fb_story.html?hpid=z1

Is it gonna get ugly?