rolling buried alive in china 2012

Is prison out of the question?

dylannn do you have anything to add to the reports of tanks in beijing xp

some china expert said that usually when demotions are announced, they'll also announce some ceremonial position also - since there wasn't one for bo's announcement it could very well mean he's going to jail

I think there's a really nice 'prison' they send officials convicted of corruption to, it's like a minimum security hotel

no idea but... this is a pretty common occurrence, i think. the tanks rumour, i mean. and weibo just amplifies it...

i sure haven't seen anything solid enough. bo xilai is not taking zhongnanhai by force.

yeah it seemed highly improbable to me. but I don't know who's the CiC of china's military forces. or how the military is structured at all, even.

hk politics is a mystery to me, really... Only 1,193 people are eligible to vote in the election, as representatives of various sectors of society. and i'm not sure where to go to try to follow it. but this is interesting, beijing throwing their support behind leung chunying.

hah yeah. there's also this

http://in.reuters.com/article/2012/03/23/hongkong-election-idINDEE82M07N20120323

hmmmmm, wonder who these 'hackers' were, it's a 'big mystery'

In China's Chongqing, dismay over downfall of Bo Xilai, this kind of thing... a reporter wanders around chongqing, and we learn that luggage carriers and fruit vendors are sort of unaware of the realities of local politics: "well, he must have done SOME good stuff, right?" and then he quotes some guy from UTOPIA.

but here's a localish view of chongqing under bo basically questioning the view of bo as populist/head of successful local government. pretty good.

http://i937.photobucket.com/albums/ad215/jiaoqu/zammo.jpg

http://news.yahoo.com/britain-asks-china-probe-businessmans-death-091625649.html

sounds like a bourne movie!

http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/china_law_prof_blog/2012/03/gao-zhisheng-reported-alive.html

http://www.viiphoto.com/showstory.php?nID=1354

look at this

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/03/29/the_revenge_of_wen_jiabao?page=full

i find it a bit hard to follow, maybe because i never saw the chongqing model or bo xilai as being interested in "dragging the Communist Party back toward its most radical, lawless past."

i saw bo xilai as a vaguely liberal figure, despite the singing of communist anthems or whatever. i knew leftwing fringe guys were into bo xilai but was there that much of the far left about him? i know him for the development of dalian, heading economic development in dongbei (by tearing down shitty state owned enterprises, setting up special econ zones, hammering out foreign investment deals), minister of commerce (he pops up lots in canadian politics because chretien went straight to him, and so did harper very recently).... now the guardian has a headline referring to him as a neo-maoist (to me the red songs were basically valueless, i think-- a nationalistic teambuilding exercise that didn't have a lot to do with collectivism or, like, resisting american imperialism).

It remains far from clear whether the Communist Party's webs of patronage and knots of financial and bureaucratic interests can be reformed. But with China's leftist movement decapitated by the purge of Bo Xilai, and Bo's critics now talking about his reign of "red terror" after daily revelations of political and physical brutality under his command, Wen has begun to win over some of his many detractors.

"In the past I did not have a fully positive view of Wen Jiabao, because he said a lot of things but didn't deliver," says a leading media figure with lifelong connections to China's leadership circle. "Now I realize just to be able to say it, that's important. To speak up, let the whole world know that he could not achieve anything because he was strangled by the system."

what system strangled wen jiabao? didn't he shotcall the downfall of bo xilai? why can't he address some of the other things he's been speaking up about? what about the recent speech mentioning "financial inequality, lack of credibility, and corruption"? can we deal with some of those things?

I think the_west is very interested in reading the tea leaves in a favorable way

tbh I'm not gonna get too hung up on the ousting of someone who bought his son ferraris

very interested to get to the bottom of this british businessman's death

i guess my reaction is that i don't see bo xilai as being too far off the party's ideological bullseye. he was nationalistic, was down for the party at all costs (he was supposedly pretty enthusiastic about carrying out the order to shut down falun gong), saw economic growth as the ticket to stability (starting with direct foreign investment and later nurturing chinese consumer market, chinese econ sovereignty etc). he was pretty good at playing popular opinion wherever he landed. in chongqing, he knew it was corruption, urban-rural residency, "morality," shit like that. and he just kind of got caught flexing in the mirror at just the wrong time by someone with slightly more pull. neo-maoist, hardly.

and i've ridden in more ferraris than i could count bought for kids by parents far less wealthy than bo xilai. he hasn't driven it into anyone yet or strangled a ktv girl yet, either. cut the kid some slack. what's his name? guagua or something?

http://beijingcream.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Bo-Guagua.jpeg

“薄熙来的儿子薄瓜瓜曾经对朋友说，他在北京常开的那辆红色法拉利不是他的”

l: 2
r: 4

http://cdt.chinadigitaltime.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/2hpiwe9.jpg
http://www.qidian.ca/attachments/2012/02/1_2012020918423113sCm.jpg

IT'S THE BLACKOUT RARI GOT THE BACK OUT
SHOWIN MY BLACK ASS ENGINE IN THE GLASS HOUSE

http://mobile.bloomberg.com/news/2012-03-21/after-bo-xilai-which-way-is-china-s-red-ferrari-headed-

i think this is good.

First, Bo was more an opportunist than an ideologue. To the extent there was a “Chongqing model,” it was largely self-serving: As a big-city mayor and former provincial governor, Bo knew that higher gross domestic product and foreign direct investment were what won attention and plaudits, and he did his best to boost both. He favored state-owned enterprises because that’s where the money was.

i guess my reaction is that i don't see bo xilai as being too far off the party's ideological bullseye. he was nationalistic, was down for the party at all costs

well maybe the ideology is changing! that would be good, I think. but I mean you can spin it the other way and portray bo as a guy who left chongqing with a ton of debt and got in hot water by going after 'corruption' which means people who are well connected with the state.

http://behindthewall.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/03/30/10944581-hong-kong-property-developers-market-value-drops-49-billion-in-one-day

wish I had a couple mil to buy up some HK property for cheap

that's a pretty big story in vancouver since they're behind lots of high profile
developments @ coal harbour, ubc, richmond
and juust like in hong kong, real estate is a great passion in vancouver (esp richmond)

In Vancouver, the Kwok brothers, through their Canadian subsidiary, Aspac Developments Ltd., are best known for transforming Coal Harbour into a prestigious waterfront neighbourhood, with the Harbour Green luxury condo towers.

Waterfront Place, Aspac’s first Coal Harbour development, was completed in September 2003. Each of the five towers was named after a famous European city: Avila, Bauhinia, Cascina, Denia and Escala.

In Richmond, the Kwoks are involved in the new urban low-rise waterfront community called River Green, which is being developed on the banks of the Fraser River near the Olympic Oval and the Vancouver International Airport.

At UBC, the tycoon brothers are behind the 17-storey highrise called The Wesbrook on the edge of Pacific Spirit Regional Park.

i drive by the river green development everytime i cross the bridge from richmond to sea island/yvr
wonder what the status on it is now

oh also

Urine-soaked eggs a spring taste treat in China city

would definitely try those

http://desmond.imageshack.us/Himg22/scaled.php?server=22&filename=barfoff.gif&res=medium

http://i937.photobucket.com/albums/ad215/jiaoqu/manlyu.gif

rip UTOPIA

wellll http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-04-04/china-s-internet-censors-decide-comments-are-dangerous.html this too

qingming jokes

清明节快到了，地下的先烈们纷纷打来电话询问：

江姐问：国民党被推翻了么？
答：被阿扁推翻了。

董存瑞问：劳动人民还当牛做马吗？
答：不劳动了，都下岗了。

吴琼花问： 姐妹们都翻身得解放了吗？
答：思想解放了，都当小姐了。

扬子荣问：土匪都剿灭了 吗？
答：都改当公安和城管了。

杨白劳问：地主都消灭了 么？
答：都入党了。

雷锋问：那 资本家呢？
答：都进人大和政协了！

刘胡兰问：同志们都藏好了么？
答：都隐身上网了

毛主席问：大家现在都在忙什么？
答：都在斗地主！
毛主席：那我就放心了

sorry let me get back on track

http://podcast.cbc.ca/mp3/podcasts/writersandco_20120401_40421.mp3

eleanor wachtel w chan koonchung talking about the fat years

an interesting guy. interesting conversation.
(book is sorta weak to me. even weaker old fashioned-y english translation by decrepit weirdo michael duke)

fuck, i shouldn't call him a decrepit weirdo, even if i meant it in a nice way. michael duke is a legit o.g. in the world of chinese literature and has a deep knowledge of the field and i treasure my time spent with him CHIN412 in buchanan building lecture halls madly jotting down notes in an indecipherable mixture of traditionalsimplified characters and pinyin trying to soak up some genius or trying to keep up while butting into a conversation between him and yu hua.

but his translations are creaky and dull http://i937.photobucket.com/albums/ad215/jiaoqu/kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkklll.gif

dylannnn I'm not big on chinese lit on general, but thought you might find this interesting

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/series/china-stories

hey, bo, where you wanna go?

lai changxing, smuggler, pimp and folk hero, subject of the great book inside the red mansion, who made it to canada and had a good run before being kicked out and sent back to china with a promise not to kill him...

going on trial
in xiamen

http://www.chinasmack.com/2012/stories/hierarchies-of-snobbery-and-contempt-by-chinese-netizens.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkRkAS11k2A

china is like a bunch of 12 year olds arguing whether the ps3 or the xbox360 is better xp

right. this is pretty absurd.

taking it serious for a second...

Social Networks: Facebook > Kaixin > Renren > Tencent Pengyou

u on any of these these dyao? i was surprised that facebook is like the one site that people are willing to bother downloading freegate for (FG same initials as its #1 moneygiver FAL** GO** and the u.s. state department i think). i sort of just set it aside until i realized everyone i knew was on it (that was under 35 and prob wealthy + spoke english). i checked out renren and kaixin but hated both. and i actually like qq pengyou because it has the qq userbase
just like weixin
which is the most necessary thing to have on your mobile device in china (love the LOOK AROUND feature).

Cell Phones: Blackberry > Apple > Xiaomi > HTC > Samsung > Sony Ericsson > Nokia > Motorola > Lenovo > ZTE > shanzhai mobile phones

mannnnnnnnnn... i don't even know what xiaomi is. blackberry shouldn't be on there. htc is a step above shanzhai. apple is #1 for sure. samsung is #2, i think! nexus is def widely coveted and snobbish.

Fast Fashion: Topshop > Zara > H&M > Forever 21 > Vera Moda > Metersbonwe/Yishion/Bossini.

http://www.granta.com/New-Writing/Shen-Congwen-a-letter

hey u guys think shen congwen ever banged ding ling?

the granta CHINA WEEK was boring. never want to read another interview with mo yan again.

not on any of the chinese ones, but a lot of my friends are on renren, and of course everybody has QQ + weibo

everybody in HK is on facebook

http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/21/half-a-world-away-a-familiar-name/

Is HK firewalled?

nope

that's why google.cn redirects to google.hk

http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2012/4/24/bo-guagua-statement-to-the-crimson/

harvard must be thrilled at the uptick in web traffic

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so ah chen guangcheng escaped??