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伟大的中国禁毒刚刚出版了由詹姆斯·A·米尔沃德Facebook的争议性计划有关中国的文章。 文化/人权的角度，从书面文章，它包含了一个有趣的段落从鲁迅的呐喊。 “想象一下，一个铁屋子没有窗户，绝对坚不可摧，许多睡熟里面的人很快就会窒息而死。 [...]

上周我写了一篇文章，我对艾未未和其他持不同政见者的一些看法。 这吸引了意想不到的意见，它甚至启发，在西班牙，Zaichina对中国最好的博客播客。 所有的一切，它一直是一个长期而富有成效的交流，所以我要感谢[...]

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所以，我们再去。 这是这一年的时间时，美国国务院发表年度人权报告，其中包括中国作为一个主要的罪犯，中国迅速响应用自己的报告，专门向美国。 这个节目是似曾相识，但如果你有兴趣，你可以看到[...]

所以很多事情都发生在中国境外，现在，我的角色已经发生了逆转，有奇怪的感觉，一旦我们所有的目光的目标，而不是围观。 感觉轻松，我注意到它有一个很大的影响，以及对中国电视。 荒谬的压迫后[...]

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在2010年社会蓝皮书由中国社科院公布去年十二月，有一个非常有趣的一块隐藏在330页的社会经济分析。 下的标题是“人口问题，中国在2011年和2015年”应注意，本文中所包含的一些最新的和最消极的数据[...]

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外国人享有在中国感叹的事情之一是建筑遗产的破坏。 这是可以理解的，现代中国的文物破坏的可怕纪录，今天有2000多年历史的城市，它是很难找到任何痕迹的老建筑。 但糟糕的是，您可以[...]

下面是分析我们的朋友在天涯BBS迈克尔的命运后，我答应。 迈克尔（卖抠）是在中国的小故事，我写了上周的主角。 不是我写的故事，特别是为这一目的，但一旦它在那里，我认为这将是一个好主意[...]

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这个星期，我很少有时间做语言后，部分原因是因为我一直忙着写一个简短的故事，一方面是因为我已经讨论了有关在其他博客的语言很好的协议。 我利用这一优势，与我在上海的最后意见后做了长时间的讨论后，我们[...]

这是我第一次在中国的短篇小说。 标题是“迷失东京”，它说明了糟糕的普通话发音的潜在后果。 如果你不读中国，我在评论中留下一个小的总结，或者用G翻译得到增强的体验。 UPDATE：我已经上天涯转贴给[...]

今天我只想评论中文标点符号的神秘世界。 这是一个迷人的领域在这些时候，每个人都指责中国歧视外国符号。 事实上，有一个外国符号，在几乎每一个现代中国的一句：点，逗号，和[...]

星期六有一些惊人的运动在路上。 开始清晨群众集中的路口附近的不明身份的人士，部分阻断了交通。 他们明显紧张，但他们的表现是坚定的，明确他们为了稳住了阵脚。 他们一直有近2个小时，当我到达相机。 [...]

今天，我只是想分享这幅画，一个勇敢的记者在东方的卫生纸，谁是第一时间赶赴现场，采取：这是一个全新的雕塑被称为“沟通”，刚从美国到上海纪念30年来两国关系的开幕。 [...]

这已经由历史学家香Zhenkuai的小片取下来，从“南方都市报”，但它已设法逃避审查其他一些网站上。 我喜欢香港批评中共王朝的统治，微妙的方式和凉爽的“L'国家花莲莫伊”中国渲染为“朕即国家”。 因为我没有时间，[...]

这里是韩寒昨日审查的更新，随着时间的提名，这可能是比它更重要的一见钟情出现一些额外的信息。 然后，如果你停留直到本章结束时，我们会穿上黄色的袜子，分析多一点，可怕的祸害[...]

韩寒被提名为时间的最有影响的人，并推动中国网民数以百万计，他很快被提升到一个可能的号码1。 xujun，Eberlein已经做了良好的分析形势，特别是恶心的方式，人民日报和“上海日报”正试图淡化和[...]

在此之前我从来没有想过，但是当我问到这个星期，这是我最喜欢中国的省，我很自然地回答了浙江。 我已经行驶有再次清明假期，我一直反映这是一个了不起的地方。 浙江是在大陆最小的省，只是有点[...]

在本周的语言后，我想谈谈语言保护主义。 我不知道这是我要找的字，但如果你已经按照过去几周的博客，你可能知道我的意思。 这一切都始于上个月，这项建议禁止英语[...]

在本周的语言后，我想在今天使用的许多歧视性的表达，以探讨性别的影响，在书面和口头的中国语言和中国妇女的反应。 鉴于大多数传统文化极为性别按今天的标准，这是很常见的，有在今天的语言中的性别歧视元素。 [...]

中国档案正在寻找一个英语为母语的总部设在上海，2010年上海世博会期间的兼职工作的扬声器。 最好是用新闻或媒体相关工作经验。 在视频和摄影的经验，将是一个优势。 我们正在寻找聪明，积极与良好的沟通技巧的人。 此人将负责[...]

上周，我做了后，我给三个原因，我想东方早报靡烂。 这个星期，我读到一篇文章从上海DeluxZilla博客，让下面的观察：尽管是党报，我是上海早报风扇[...]

所有的惊人的事情发生在中国给我，我在我的手机的SMS消息是其中之一。 当我第一次到上海3年前我还年轻，我的心是充满野心。 急于为自己的名称，在当地企业界，[...]

今天是新外滩开放一天。 经过十年高架流入这条街的道路，城市规划者们终于意识到，5车道的高速公路是不是最好的东西在你著名的海滨长廊的中间有。 今年他们一直忙着，二环路[...]

关于新媒体和报纸死亡的辩论已肆虐多年的免费上网。 然而，在中国内部网，这个问题不提出这么多的利益，因为新闻在这里已经被谋杀了狰狞的手检查员不久前。 正是出于这个原因，中国[...]

这是在我的博客的新功能。 这是一个后续最初的语言和文化的职位，去年，我从现在承诺继续系列，每星期四，我觉得它。 我们的想法是张贴有关这些语言的好奇心，我遇到我的研究[...]

有多少次，我们看到了中国论坛上讨论究竟什么是软实力？ 说白方的神秘力量，绝地利用国际政治中的所有参数，把自己的优势？ 中国多年来一直觊觎这个武器，并在寻求花费许多宝贵的资源，但所有[...]

因此，谷歌做了最后。 原来我最坏的预测是正确的，和Google.cn流亡生活，来自香港的权威挑战，中国政府的。 讲燃烧桥梁。 像往常一样，大多数评论员我们有完全搞错了。 这是不是谷歌提供[...]

我刚刚读完这本书蚁族（蚁族），所有在中国互联网上的地方。 我很好奇，为什么它成为这里这么热，而西方媒体报道，只是简单地。 我想我现在知道答案，但让我介绍一下这本书的第一稍后。 [...]

我只注意到这幅画，我今天上午参加了在​​小车道。 意图是说明了奥林匹克精神，终于来到上海当地社区。 结果是，我不知不觉地反映在公告板玻璃盖了自己冷静的肖像。 这是典型的中国动机消息[...]

我首次访问世博作为一个孩子，我的学校时带走了我所有一起上课，塞维利亚92。 西班牙住了疯狂的一年，奥运会，其中发生在同一时间，那年夏天，世博会是有史以来规模最大的之一。 现在想在中国，有[...]

今天早上，我正在做一些测试，在Google上看到，在搜索结果中如果有任何变化，我注意到一个细节，我没有想到前：虽然每个人都被描述为“在中国举办的”Google.cn，IP美国，你可以看到域名。 事实上，除与优惠[...]

声明：在对科学的兴趣，这篇文章包含色情材料。 如果你是未成年人及/或敏感的人，建议你不要向下滚动。 如果你不读中国，这是确定的。 这是在以前的系列后，我们结束了漫无边际的主要议题和延续[...]

谷歌的新方法对中国的情况比预期的慢，但我有感觉，我们可能会看到事情发生很快。 新年过后，双人会议几乎忘了，中国政府将可能需要清除在议程前的下一个大项目，[...]

最后，经过一个漫长的一周激烈的人大，政协的覆盖，春天的第一个迹象已经开始绽放在上海的记者。 东方早报与促进世博会在纽约时代广场的大型广告牌的照片打开，而其竞争对手，较为保守的上海早报，显示在[......]

这个周末，我已进入中国保守派的性别从我筋疲力尽研究的突破，更新网站的旧零件，并完成我最近一直在试图推行一些新的功能。 2.0版本中的变化是不相关的设计，所以他们可能不会立即显现出来[...]

它看起来像查尔斯在新中国的鸿沟博客已经找到了新源，以振兴中国博客现场点击：辩论在中国对色情的打击。 虽然我通常不支持任何类型的检查，我不得不说我不关心的色情事业在中国。 [...]

上海东方早报正在做一个很好的覆盖一年一度的全国人大，政协会议。 我喜欢今天的纸质版，它带有一个可爱的羊驼旁边的胡图和走的过道，从他们刚刚落成的政协男孩的夫妇。 它是为那些长的故事[...]

注：对于那些已经在过去的3天里，我的读者，这是一本关于谷歌Buzz，新的Google服务已经入侵世界的邮箱本周一职。 但别紧张，保持几秒钟之内，不要急于GFW的测试工具，这尚未发生。 我只是想[...]

圣抽烟！ 东西是在谷歌中国移动。 我一直工作在过去的12小时内与谷歌文档，我才意识到我用的是易建联的电脑，一个没有安装的VPN。 这意味着，Google文档，是因为昨天晚上至少畅通。 所以是“Google网上论坛”！ 这两个网站[...]

这一切Ğ谈话的最后几天给我带来了很多读者从世界高新技术，我觉得现在对他们的责任报告的最新创新。 这就是为什么昨天我在我的周日步行决定散步到当地的公共厕所，其中最新的发展总是[...]

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你可能想知道为什么这个故事的谷歌占用了这么大的空间，在这个技术含量低的博客。 我也。 我想我着迷的是第一手的新闻后的G炸弹几乎完全没有。 时间是猜测，并为中国博客和茶叶读者[...]

回顾上周我写我知道，我努力保持冷静的头脑和分析的事件，我忘了说一件很重要的事情：我很尊重谷歌。 我从未有过的非业务性质，其决定有任何疑问，尽管在我们调查的结果，我[...]

百度首席技术官李沂南辞职的消息传出作为冲击Chinayouren，我仍然在CDT的目瞪口呆goggling眼睛。 这将会使更多的噪音，现在比它通常，人会很快找到了与谷歌中国的内政，[...]连接

十年的战斗，黑暗势力对中国commy政府为非作恶的公司谷歌的一些图像。 今天在Google.cn上的标志下面。 显然，大G发送邮件到中国：我们尊重你，我们挖的古老文化，它仅仅是你的恶心[...]

我知道，在世界上有其他新闻，我可能不会对他们给予足够的重视。 但我不能帮助它，我一直在试图了解谷歌的决定在过去48小时超频，我读每一篇文章在互联网上出现了自。 我仍然不明白这一点。 我想[...]

已经有很少的新信息化的今天，媒体和博客的最重要的是同样的想法周围转动，其中许多人已经提到，在过去的2个系列的职位。 这里是一些有趣的新的我已经收集点，我认为是值得评论：有一种[...]

继上一篇关于谷歌和中国，这里有我的思考，关于这一切都在可预见的后果。 首先，一个重要的澄清：我不认为对审查的战斗是坏。 在中国的检查是非常现实的，它是一个不仅活动家，但最诚实的中国的耻辱，只[...]

首先，读谷歌官方博客上发布这篇文章。 这是所有你需要阅读的时刻，因为那里没有更多的第一手资料。 它被出版了约5个小时前。 它说，在一个相当混乱的方式基本上是：谷歌已检测到的攻击[...]

哇。 Baidu.com已经被砍死今天上午9:30左右，刚刚在下午三时。 超过5时30小时的停机时间。 最糟糕的是，他们有没有办法隐藏这是一个黑客，甚至人民日报刊登的照片。 也许媒体的党不考虑中国的光荣事业的一部分网站[...]

顺便说一下，我看了昨晚的电影头像。 这是一个惊人的中国观察员的经验，我得出这样的启发性的结论：电影与中国毫不相干。 即使今年韩寒的互联网和男子王认为的相反，该地块为[...]

虎浮出水面。 新的十年已经在西方，在中国，我们是在没有人的土地，太阳能和农历新年之间的牛和老虎之间，再次。 它是时间回过头来看看我们所处的位置。 在世界政治中[...]

再见2009。 这里是另一个年底的Chinayouren特别的运作满一年后的第一个。 坚持围绕感谢所有。 像往常一样，我们将开始与中国在新闻的普及。 今年比以往任何时候都更有趣的是，因为2010年是一个全面的数字，中国的早期鸟类[...]

哥本哈根峰会激发了一些媒体的激烈辩论，大部分更相关，而不是气候变化的国际政治。 其次是较为温和的意见已被一些壮观的作品如“卫报”的马克·莱纳斯，像那些出现在单位“，由内而外，想了解的角色[...]

我已经离开了一会儿，因为我所有的假期时间已经由上海的两个有趣的故事，其中的一个电视连续剧，另一种新型吸收。 串行是WoJu，蜗牛的家，愚蠢地翻译成英文为的窄Dwellingness，或任何。 它已经红热在中国自[...]

圣诞快乐大家。 伤心圣诞节对于中国来说，我们都爱这个国家，相信在自由，尊严和真理的人。 整整一年前，在圣诞节那天，我发表了这对刘的“宪章”的职位。 我是主动的关键原因是多方面的：它包含的矛盾，这是反应而不是[...]

看看我今天在我的信箱中发现什么。 “露齿兔儿童情商训练营的广告！” 你那些有足够的耐心，坚持这个博客可能还记得过去后，我在中国的普及self-help/business书籍，尤其是那些与情绪智能（EQ）。 不奇怪[...]

读这对韩汉对“中国日报”的咆哮。 我不得不说我不喜欢的音色，它读取像它的书面羡慕失败者。 但它是一种智能失败者，和他打钉头部几次。 他是绝对权的主要论文[...]

我昨晚摆弄一些统计数据，考虑到中国互联网心胸狭窄，我们一直在讨论最近的奇怪的想法。 表达本身就是奇怪，因为“互联网”和“与世隔绝”，形成一个矛盾，但你很难注意到这些东西，当你住在这里。 这是正常的程序，在社会主义市场经济的土地[...]

还有很多事情最近在“媒体的消亡”领域。 特别是在中国，我们已经看到壮观的由詹姆斯·法洛斯和其他职位系列，铸造一些奥巴马对中国的访问结果。 对于旧与新媒体的辩论，这不能算[...]

您可能听说过的的长期Laobaixing（老百姓），从字面上“百家姓”，中国的老百姓。 他们也被称为LBX的奉献给他们这个网站。 laobaixing是一个伟大的词，不仅因为其明显的词源，而且还因为它的内涵是相当不同，从我们的“老百姓”。 从什么[...]

在本系列的前两个职位，我们看到，中国是世界的语言保持了一套完整独立的词汇根和非代表他们的语音脚本，我们可以称之为一个单独的词系统。 出于这个原因，我认为，中国可能是最困难的[...]

上星期五，我写了一个很长的职位，我结束了包括太多的想法。 的主要点位了，结果掩盖，但它是简单地此：在学习一门语言，词汇起着至关重要的作用，不仅是因为中国这个极其困难的，在一个先进的[...]

来自于生活的每一个学生的普通话点时，他觉得写的语言困难的呼叫。 时间终于来到了我，我会按照主人的路径。 事实上，我打算走得更远。 我证明[...]

我刚刚收到一封电子邮件，提醒我这个有趣的中国传闻博客后。 在博客中，他说：温家宝：这家伙从来没有停止给我带来惊喜。 当他从政治退休后，他才真正开始了自己的公关公司。 “普通人”的东西是完美的处理。 唯一的乡亲有[...]

我上ESWN看到本韩寒的“时代”周刊采访时，因为我已经写了关于他之前，我认为这是值得评论。 这也是有趣的，因为它说明了东方与西方之间的郭怡对最近警告说可怕的误解。 这是，在我看来，关键段落：......尽管[...]

A.加尔布雷思的“中国经济评论，不要错过这个故事。 在中国的反应，病毒长时间的辩论，这是最合理的意见，我已经看到了在很长一段时间，也是最好的通知。 故事使我想起我的朋友，在西班牙的医生回来，告诉我，当我[...]

也有一些，虽然不是来自中国，使他们成为当地文化的一部分，由中国彻底拥抱的信念。 一个例子是佛教从印度进口，在远古时代。 另外一个，我已经找到了，是现代管理大师的教学，从美国进口的。 这是[...]

因此，奥巴马是在中国，即使他是不是我的总统，他仍然是我最喜欢的总统。 这里是我的第一手访问的分析。 最重要的新闻，令人惊讶了注意，所有观察员的是，奥巴马想成为欧洲在中国广西巴马。 这是我读新的拼写[...]

我已经意识到最近，由于在我的训练方法的某些不平衡，我的中文阅读能力可能会跑在前面，我的发言，我已经被迫采取严厉的纠正措施。 在风险变成一个SM的博客，我要今天发言可怕的忏悔[...]

这在四川出差，实在是充满了惊喜。 今天我们去参观的项目，一个巨大的工业园区，建成后这将是世界上最大的工厂生产十一个典型的中国宏伟的长江银行。 但出人意料的是，当我们去到镇[...]

它是我的幸运日。 今天在重庆的马拉松式的会议被中止会议中，和我们整个下午为自己探索城市在雾中。 这个地方感觉像中国所有的精力集中在一个小半岛。 或许，结果是不漂亮，但它是强烈的。 [...]

我知道，我应该学习的权利，不写职位。 但我只是呼吸稍微模拟考试两届会议之间，我在学习一门新的语言引人入胜的过程中反映，以及如何，当你通过几次，你最终会发展自己的秘密方法。 ..]

我回上海了一些有趣的轶事和日本的一些轻度有趣的图片。 不幸的是，我不会发表任何因为这一周，我在中国的工作行程忙碌，特别是因为这是汉语水平考试周。 是一样好，我想，毕竟[...]

现在，我是在一个自由的互联网国家，我的机会来看看CDT的网站，我发现这个有趣的问题，从人贾兹拉：如果失去了毛，会发生什么？ 我不是在对反事实历史的原则，它可以是有用的在许多情况下，[...]

First impressions are usually mistaken, but they are also interesting because the eye is alert to any novelty, and the culture clash is rich with ideas. Warning: this post contains sweeping generalizations. Take it for what it is, and if you are serious about understanding Japan you might want to look somewhere else. I came [...]

当我预定飞往日本的航班我的最后一分钟，我感到惊喜，我有一个非常合理的价格为10月1日国庆日。 When I went to Pudong airport I understood why: the streets were empty in Shanghai, nobody flew at that time because they were all at home with the eyes glued [...]

A middle aged man in a dark suit left this car. He didn't look in the least embarrassed. Was he a pedophile? A cadre under the influence, bringing it home to sweetie? Or just the resigned father of a normal Shanghai girl? I didn't stop to ask. But I appreciated the customized kitty steering wheel, [...]

I am finding it difficult to concentrate on my work with a band of spidermen in overalls hanging outside the window. It is tower rinsing day today, like every year, and again I find myself paralyzed by panic. I know, it is a common sight in a vertical metropolis like Shanghai. The problem is, through [...]

Yesterday I went for a walk on Nanjing Lu and I witnessed a strange phenomenon I had not seen before: the mooncake brokers. It was last Saturday of mooncake picking season, so they were all busily walking up and down the street, scanning the crowds for potential buyers and sellers. A bit of background: Every [...]

The other day I saw a tourist bus from Nanjing that caught my eye. On one side the name of the travel company was written in Chinese characters, and below it there was a text written in a mysterious language: “ISGNOG NAIXUOY EHCIQ UOYVL NAITGNEH GNIJ NAN” Initially I thought it must be Uyghur, but [...]

One of the things I learned this Summer is that, while I may leave on holidays to Europe, China doesn't really leave me anymore. More than just a country, it is a force of nature, the other face of mankind that is now part of my life. China is always there, and she is everywhere, [...]

The discussion about racism in China keeps coming back every once in a while, and each time it arouses the strongest passions. This is a post I've been wanting to do for some time, following the interesting comments we had in March, and as a conclusion to the Xinjiang series. The story that sparked the [...]

It has been a while since I last wrote, and now I feel the typical blogger's guilt, the same that drives some weaker souls to start all their blog posts with unasked apologies. But worry not, we are not that kind of blog. We don't ask for forgiveness here, and that is because we already [...]

One more from the fantastic world of China mobile. These last weeks I have encountered what has to be the weirdest form of political activism ever tried in China. It has happened twice, each time on a Sunday afternoon. It comes in the form of a phone call from an inexistent number. A very professional recording, [...]

You haven't really seen a city until you have been to its zoo. I have known this fact since I was 5 years old, and after many years I suddenly remembered it again last Sunday, and I decided it was about time I went to the Shanghai zoo. When you grow up you realize zoos [...]

Many blogs have written about this already, but I still want to do my own post for Xu Zhiyong, who was arrested 3 weeks ago. I have no new information to offer here – info will be forthcoming only when the police decides it – but if you are reading this please do not let [...]

I just learn from Reuters that US is testing system to break foreign Web censorship. This is the first news I have that the US government is trying to outsmart the GFW. Fantastic, after the anonymous hackers now it is the most powerful state in the World that will confront the dreaded wall. The war [...]

Following last week's posts about Xinjiang conflict, I see this AFP dispatch: China promotes Xinjiang armed police chief. Mr. Dai, the man at the top of the armed police has been promoted. Which means that the first of the failures I noted in the last post (ie failed to protect the citizens on 5th July) [...]

政府的基本目的之一是为了确保公民的安全，从这个角度来看，中国政府已在乌鲁木齐失败壮观。 To begin with, it did not afford sufficient protection to the Han victims during the night of 5th July. Some wrong decisions were most likely [...]

I was not there and I do not know more than what is in the press. But in the light of the available information, I think it's worth it to have another look at the events, and see what we make of it. Refer to the NYT diagram linked on the illustration, this paper is [...]

Have you been watching Xinjiang TV these days? I am a fan. It's the new Love TV, a 24-7 concentrate of all the corniest efforts by the Chinese official media to promote harmony after the events of 5th July. Smiling kids, flowery dances, long meetings of interethnic neighbour associations discussing love and togetherness. Best served [...]

I have written a lot recently about the Great Firewall of China (GFW). I had my site blocked for two weeks and this inspired some frustrated posts until eventually I worked my way through the Wall. The good news is I learnt a lot in the process, and now I can write some tips to [...]

After a terrible weekend in front of the computer I have managed to re-open my site on a new URL. I am fed up of the internet right now and I am going out to enjoy the Shanghai Sun for a few hours. I will try not to write more about this for a while, [...]

It is common knowledge that studying a foreign language involves studying a culture. Consciously or not, that is the main reason why people enjoy it. If it weren't for its cultural content, a language would be little more than an empty set of code-words and rules designed with an exasperatingly faulty logic. And learning languages would be just like memorizing the [...]

This week I had some interesting conversations on other blogs, mostly regarding my state of internet blockdom and the possible actions that a webmaster can take to solve this problem. I will share here some conclusions that might be of interest. Just to make sure we don't forget anything, I will go first over the [...]

So there you are. July 1st passed without any major incident and the famous Anonymous Netizens didn't show up. I am as blocked as ever and the Nutty Nannies of China are still running loose on the web, unimpressed by the headless suit . I cannot say it is a surprise, frankly the chances of [...]

It was about time Mozilla issued their new revision. Ever since Firefox emerged as the big challenger of Explorer many of us switched to this swift browser with the unlimited add-ons. As time passed, we grew so used to all the fox capabilities that it became normal for an internet browser to perform the most [...]

Last night I went to the evening organized by Earnshaw to launch their two latest books: “I sailed with Chinese Pirates” and “Shanghai Story Walks”. I have been a fan of Earnshaw Books since they published the first of their series of reprints, Carl Crow's “Foreign Devils in the Flowery Kingdom“, my favourite China read [...]

这是我最喜欢的大学校园宏伟的正门在上海：HuaShiDa。 我喜欢这个入口，因为它是非常绿色，非常完整，它拥有一切从环岛标志1敬礼的巨型毛泽东，背景中的建筑起重机。 But what I like most is the inscription: SEEK [...]

I enjoyed reading this article by Evelyn Chan on the Carter Center blog. It is clear and well written and in my opinion it is right on the money. It's the article I would have liked to write on the stimulus package (h/t CDT) When it comes to Chinese economy I have always been a bit [...]

So OK, I am censored, but why NOW? I mean, I haven't been writing anything for ages, is the Propaganda Department punishing me for being lazy? Has some big Chinese BBS linked to me recently, is Uln hot now? As I was looking around for an answer, I found out that the Peking Duck blog was [...]

So guess what now: I am blocked. I am banned, prohibited, harmonized, river-crabbed. Censored, in short, by the Great FireWall of China. If you are reading my blog now and have not noticed anything strange, it is because either: 1- You are reading the blog from outside China and therefore you are not going through [...]

在世界环境日下午，在上海的天空已经几乎完全黑（棕）下午三时，这些小婴儿从天上掉下。 In the same time, many “Environment Day” squadrons were busy in the parks and beaches for the 1 hour long volunteer cleaning up activity. I hope [...]

Last year I wrote a post about foreign entrepreneurs in Shanghai that included a Big Question with a link: Who gets rich in China? The page attracted a ridiculous amount of search engine hits considering its dumb content, which proves that it was indeed a hot question. Time passed and I never got around to [...]

The mysterious ways of computer science. Today for example, I completely panicked when I stumbled into one of the bugs of wordpress. For some reason, when you add a “click to read more” tag next to a section in bold, it goes and turns the whole blog to bold, including sidebar, titles and header. 因此，[...]

I was a bit reluctant to read “Chinese Gods”. I never had much of a taste for the mystical, and the rows of whiskered statues staring in the temples fail to arouse in me more than a cautious curiosity. But when I received the latest publications of Blacksmith, the promise of a book that “makes sense” [...]

From the post left unfinished last week. Some of the main arguments read (or heard) in China Crisis discussions: The Time Economies don't grow indefinitely. Low cycles follow high cycles and after 30 years it is about time. China cannot break the laws of economics, so the recession must necessarily come in the next X [...]

It was exactly one year ago, almost to the minute. It was Monday, and we had started our meeting at 2pm in the 22nd floor of the client's headquarters. About an hour later, in the middle of heated negotiations, there was an awkward silence. It took a long moment before we understood what was making [...]

It's been half a year since the first announcement of the Chinese stimulus package, and the time has come to look back and ask ourselves: how is the Crisis doing to-day? Well, we don't need to surf very far to find some hints. Judging by the attention she gets in the media, the Crisis is still [...]

Last Saturday we went down to Anar to watch the Lions of Puxi. This is a reggae band recently formed in Shanghai, with some familiar faces of the expat music scene, including some of the guys we usually see at JZ. I am not much of a music critic, but I can say this band sounds [...]

中国超博客韩寒开始一本杂志。 他先前宣布，它在自己的博客，已经给他最后发表的文章的详细信息发送条汇票和求职申请。 我了解到这个昨晚我的朋友2Ting，急切地准备自己的简历和介绍函。 The literati of the post-80s [...]

Some pictures of my recent travels in Shanxi & Shanxi. As with past editions, 5 words per picture. The Shanxis have solid history There are some alarming Gods And alarming fire fighting equipment Guanyu deserved better than polystyrene The council should buy benches The way of The Way is a rather steep Way No, I kid [...]

哦，亲爱的。 This is a disaster. I haven't written anything for a month! Now is when I have to come up with some good excuse. Like: Spring has finally come to China; I have been travelling a bit in the dusty real-sphere of Shanxi; a band of homeland friends cheerfully invaded Shanghai, bringing with them [...]

Today it was a calm morning, the perfect Sunny day to take a long lunch break like we do back in homeland. So at midday sharp I took my bike and rode over to my new favourite reading spot. It is a bright, silent cafe, where reading is the main part of the menu. 我[...]

“The country is changing so fast!” , this is one of the things I usually say back home to explain why I find living in China so exciting. Today my street has changed very fast indeed. Linder was lucky enough to spend the night in the garden, but other bikes where not so lucky. Inexorably [...]

This discussion on China Geeks caught my eye, mostly because it is one of the few that has managed to engage the real Chinese blogosphere to interact with us foreign China blogs. And no less than hecaitou, a respected blogger in both the Chinese and Western communities. Unfortunately, the results are rather discouraging. It all [...]

我第一次读到“中国地下”上星期五，在我的中国博客每天浏览。 I had never heard the name of Zachary Mexico before, but the review on China Beat made me feel curious, so after work I stopped by the Garden bookshop and got my copy. Only 24 hours later I had [...]

Another one by the cell phone scam-buster. Take a look at the picture. This baby beeped into my life the other day at 4am, just as I was getting ready to switch into deep sleep. I knew it was spam, but I couldn't help the reflex. I stretched out one arm, opened one eye and [...]

My anonymous friend N. has sent in this picture recently taken in an underground station in Shanghai Xuhui. It is a poster depicting a (Kazakh?) horseman riding with a baby just at the moment when a Shanghai policeman has engaged him in a vicious exchange of toothiness. Government slogans are some of the phrases that [...]

NATIONAL PEOPLE'S CONGRESS – Let's admit it. We've been watching closely the NPC, we read all the material available and we have written about it. And yet, this year again, we have no clue what the NPC is for. According to their own website, the NPC has legislative functions, so we tend to compare it [...]

I am going to spice up my blog by providing some first hand opinion on my weekly tour of the Sinosphere. These are mostly comments that I've done previously in other forums and I collect here. I will try to do this every week, subject to the rate at which my brain can churn out [...]

There was some buzz last week on the Chinese internet about this supposedly new concept of Online Democracy. The excitement started with the weird “elude the cat” story, and then continued when Premier Wen JiaBao chatted online with “internet friends” . David Bandurski of the China Media Project, who has been watching these things for [...]

Oh, thank you, thank you Xinhua and thank you editor Yan. Thank you for adding now pictures to your yesterday's article : China's “scientific development” works to counter economic downturn. And thank you for choosing the most beautiful of the slides you published last week, the one which I call: “La vie en rosy” Now [...]

Xinhua has come up with the most brilliant in-depth analysis of the economic crisis that we've read to date. BEIJING, March 8 (Xinhua) — China's relatively fast economic growth has caught the eye of the world at a time when most of the countries are experiencing the full wrath of a raging economic slowdown. [...]

Wow, there's been some activity around here this week. It is exhausting to be in the limelight, and I long to get back my status of internet chopped liver. But no worries, I think I know just how to do that: Everybody knows that serious China bloggers don't do Chinglish. That's for newbies, and we [...]

Ever since I opened this blog the problem of credibility has been in the back of my mind. These days, the comments of a tenacious part-time troll, as well as some recent events that shook the Chinosphere have brought back the subject to the top of my agenda. It is well known that Chinablogs* (defined [...]

我今天开始，留下了深刻的印象，在去年最让我对中国经济的书籍，“有中国特色的资本主义”我的检讨部分，由麻省理工学院教授黄亚生。 It is a book that clearly stands out from the recent China books, and it might be destined to become one of [...]

The AFP dispatch says it all: Seventy-four workers were confirmed dead and dozens trapped underground after a gas blast early on Sunday at a colliery in northern China, the worst accident to hit the nation's mines in over 14 months. There is something very wrong with these news. The paragraph should end with “the worst [...]

Finally, we have a new blogger in the community who has moved all the way to South America to bridge-blog about the Chinese expansion there and other interesting stuff. Tom Pellman is Double Handshake. He was an editor in a well known economics magazine in Shanghai, he is almost trilingual in Chinese and he is [...]

I just came across this picture on Hecaitou's Blog. Brilliant: I hate spoiling jokes, so those that can speak a bit of Chinese should figure it out by themselves. For those who don't speak Chinese, see after the fold. SOLUTION: By now you should have noticed that the large Mao portrait is missing on the [...]

Over the weekend I read this post on zompist that creates a new writing system for English called “Yingzi”: how would English look if it was written with characters. h/t FOARP It is an enjoyable read and it is useful to explain to those back home that don't study Chinese how characters work. In Europe, [...]

I have a bunch of friends back in Spain who are always quick to send me the juiciest China news coming up over there, and to supervise that I'm fulfilling my duties as a bridge blogger. This time I have received a couple of links from Spanish newspapers El Pais and El Mundo where there [...]

Last night I was going to stay in and write a long, thoughtful post. Instead I went out and took some pictures. The first full moon marks the end of the New Year celebrations. It is called 元宵节, usually known in English as the Night of the Lanterns. Apart from the lanterns, there are also fireworks. [...]

This is a bit of a silly post, I know, and I'm sure it has been done before. But I had to do it anyway. Yesterday I finally remembered to take a picture of my favourite sign in Shanghai, the Rules of the Green Administration Bureau. It is the one that prohibits feudal behaviours, expects [...]

More bad news about the Crisis. Yesterday All Roads had another of those worrying posts: 3 Announcements and 2 Rumours, and not one of them good. Still, on our return from the double New Year's season, many of us are suprised to see the sky is not falling on our heads, and the dire predictions [...]

Here is the illustrated report of our Fujian trip. Today I present some clear symptoms of blogorrhea after my 5 day internet abstinence. So we'll try to keep it ruly and live up to my Bull Year's resolutions. I am applying the special astringent potion: Max 5 words per picture. The rest in your imagination: [...]

What is the meaning of life and work? How can it possibly be so cold in the same latitude as the Sahara desert? Where did you put the camera's battery charger? What do you mean “where did YOU put”? These and many others are the fundamental questions you ask when back to Shanghai after a [...]

Today is the last of the Rat days. Happy 牛 Year to all! And byebye too, I won't be around for the next few days: I'm off to where the weather suits my clothes, down to the charming shores of Southern Fujian. I will take the chance before I pack up to write my little [...]

Since I started posting about censorship I've noticed that the basics of the system are not clearly understood by many readers outside China. This post is to classify and explain the system in the most simple way possible. It is largely drawn from my own experience as a user in China and from the studies [...]

I don't usually do direct accusations on this site, because I know better than searching conflict, and I understand nobody is perfect and we all make mistakes. But this one I cannot let pass, it is too low and too gratuitous. It is sad: why does it have to be China who tells the first [...]

The guests just left, what a night! The tense atmosphere of a final match in my Shanghai apartment; high expectations and a sense of History. Friends, all of different nationalities, sharing my wine and watching the first speech of President Obama. The silence during the 18 minutes was complete. Is it only me, or the [...]

I can't wait to see the speech tonight. I have spent the whole midday lunch hour (and a bit more) tinkering with the NYT and others speech analysis sites. I have learnt more about the speeches of previous American presidents that I ever knew before. And in particular I have learnt one surprising detail. Those [...]

I was wondering lately why do I get so many people coming into my “Learning Chinese” category, which I haven't updated for ages. It struck me just now: of course, New Years Resolutions! How many expat readers have made the firm resolution to improve their Chinese this year? I for one. Why do we do [...]

We are at the beginning of a historic week, and I just can't not write about Obama's inauguration. This blog is also about changing the World, and there is a chance that this Tuesday will be one of those days that changes everything. Call me a dreamer, but I want to believe that this new [...]

For those who are following the developments around Chrter 08: I have discovered a website containing the full original Chinese Charter (+ translations) that is still not blocked by the censors. It is also open to comments, apparently not manipulated: https://knol.google.com/k/-/-/3jhi1zdzvxj3f/9 Thanks to heroic advocate of freedom of speech David Ferguson who, by introducing himself [...]

Some strange things happening in this blog: Post unpunned? It is hard to resist when you are writing a post and you see the chance to put in one of your puns, but lately I've been pretty good at it. It's been more than a month, for example, that I don't refer to the Leadership [...]

You know how Wen Jia Bao asked us this week to have “faith and determination“, and added that the “nation will be the first to recover” from the crisis and grasp the opportunities available. Then come the experts of the World Economic Forum, who are getting ready for their yearly skiing holiday, and they publish [...]

Last Sunday I did a post on internet censorship in China where I mixed in various different ideas and I'm afraid the final result regarding Search Engine Censorship didn't come out as clear as I would have liked. I think it is an important subject, so here are the complete results: We will be looking [...]

哇！ The People's Daily (AKA the Mouthpiece Newspaper) is getting state-of-the-art technology for its online English edition: you can now listen to the articles at the same time as you read them. I'm just back from their website where I have heard these words of Grandpa Wen pronounced by HAL 9000: “We must have faith [...]

You will excuse me for writing two serious posts in a row. It's been ages we don't do anything on the Crisis, and these days there's been a series of articles on the subject that I couldn't just let pass. Two of them have to do with the growth projections for 2009. Yawn. We've been [...]

When I started my article about the Chrter 08 last month I couldn't help wondering if it was well worth the effort. 最会讲英语的博客和媒体一直很安静的这个问题，在中国似乎没有人知道这件事。 Two weeks after the Charter's publication, I thought [...]

I know I shouldn't be linking the same source all the time, but since I got my new coded connection I have rediscovered the Time China Blog and I just can't get my eyes off it. Check out this picture of the rich corn fields in Ningxia in their last post by Lin Yang. [...]后

I got a bit excited last night with my new VPN connection. For a few hours I thought I'd found Democracy in a Box, neatly packaged in a 40$ yearly subscription. I have been since exploring new horizons. Today, second day using VPN I've had 2 surprises, one good and one bad: The good one [...]

I had to do it, really, I couldn't stand it one second more and it was getting on my nerves. It's all very good to show solidarity and suffer with the people, but I have my limits. This time back in Europe I got used to the advantages of an adult life and I can't [...]

As I was answering to a comment on the Chrter 08 post, I felt a sudden urge to find the original context for one of my favourite quotes, which stands on Instructions as a principle of this blog. That is how I found again this beautiful passage which I can't resist copying here, although I [...]

When I left China for the holidays I was pretty sure I would not manage to write a single line on the blog until my return. China is such a stimulating place that every day I am jotting down notes, and my blog runs 20 posts behind myself. In Europe the stimulus would stop – [...]

I got a few email greetings today with this title and I found it particularly funny and adapted to year 2009. For those who don't do Chinese, 牛 means “Ox” or “Cow”, and in mandarin it is pronounced “Niu”, which sounds similar to the English “New”. So Happy 牛Year is basically what Chinese picture when [...]

As I am writing this entry, 2008 has finished in China. Fortunately, we still have a few hours in Home Country to fit in my last 08 post before the evening aperitif. I take the chance to get back in action after this week's holidays and do my little roundup of 2008. It has been [...]

Barely two weeks after the publication of the Chrter 08, it has already become old news, lost in the indifference of Western media (with notable exceptions), and erased in China by the cold intervention of the censors. I want to examine here the importance of this document and give some more thought to it and [...]

Last 10th December, a group of Chinese human right activists published a document called Chrter 08, requiring political reform in the PRC. This document has had surprisingly little impact in the Western media/blogging scene. There is no telling right now how influential this document is going to be looking into potentially conflictive 2009. In any [...]

I love the way Xinhua refers to the People's Daily as a “mouthpiece newspaper”, or “the mouthpiece of the ruling party”. For example, in this otherwise boring article that I just read. Recommended if you need to doze off for a quick siesta. I find all this mouthpiece thing funny in 3 different ways, which [...]

Busy week. Yesterday I had to cancel my Chinese lesson in the last minute due to an unexpected request from one of my hardcore Chinese clients. It made me feel miserable, partly because I always feel like a 9-to-5 bitch when I have to break my word for a client. But most importantly, because I [...]

It is Friday. It's a beautiful, beautiful day. I'm in an excellent mood this morning, pondering the unexpected turns of Fate and Fortune. I mean, take the weather in Shanghai, for example. Did you ever imagine we would see these long weeks of clean blue skies? You lose faith in things and then they happen, [...]

This week David Dollar has a very informative post: On exchange rates, think multilaterally. It is an analysis of the RMB exchange rates and their change over time. Using one of those useful trade-weighted indexes that the World Bank likes so much, David goes over the history of RMB exchange rates from the 90s to [...]

Hm, no comments. I wonder what the readers are thinking of all this. I can picture some scratching their heads and trying to type in lines of zeros in their office calculator. “RMBs to the Moon? Rubbish! Show me the money!” Here's my little math for the non believers: 4,000,000,000,000RMB * (0.015m/10,000RMB) = 6,000,000 m [...]

I was thinking last night of the stimulus package and of how, since the beginning of the crisis, economy has invaded every conversation, and we all go about speaking of Billions and Trillions like nobody's business. And I have decided to write this little post to explain to my readers what is a Billion and [...]

After what I wrote last week in my sensationalistic post of the Tower of Babel, I have continued to follow as promised my Path to Enlightment. The results are modest for the moment, but I've found already five good links to get me closer to smelling Chinese politics. And I have added these 5 links [...]

I have been looking carefully at the Xinhua serial feeder today, and it's been as expected: no news from Beijing. At least now we know who and when (Hu and Wen) attended the conference, but that's about all they tell us from The Annual Meeting to Set the Tone for the Economic Development Next Year. [...]

This week the international observers are observing us with renewed interest: China's Annual Central Economic Work Conference is being held in Beijing Monday to Wednesday, where the country's leaders will decide how to maintain a stable economic growth that will “improve people's livelihood“. Expectations are high on the meeting that will change the World. [...]

One more from the Bridge Blogger: Lately I have received by email these pictures that are widely circulating on the Spanish speaking internet. They apparently originated in Colombia, so they are referred by some as Colombianadas. Colombianadas are the Latin American equivalent of Chinglish: signs and other pieces of writing with a twist of unintended [...]

Now that inflation seems under control, unemployment has been identified by most as the real threat to Chinese stability in 2009. The risk of massive layoffs and social unrest is so obvious that you hardly need an economist to identify it. My blue taxi driver was telling me about it only a minute ago. [...]

Today was a pretty stressful day in the office, but in between meetings I was able to join a lively discussion on the Fool's Mountain about the latest Dalai incident. To wit, the French President said he will meet the DL in Poland during a ceremony in honour of Lech Walesa. China immediately threatened EU [...]

These last years we've seen many of the big newspapers scanning and digitizing their historic archives, and sometimes even allowing full access to non-subscriptors. Such is the case of the NYT, Atlantic Monthly, Guardian and many others. These archives constitute great tools for research, and provide irresistible eye candy for history nerds like Uln. But [...]

The other day it was too cold to get my Linder started, so I had to go and flag a cab instead. I got one of the green chubby ones. Green cabs are well known for being stubborn, having a true passion for History and polishing their nails 5 times a day. Remember: never never [...]

Yesterday I read the World Bank's Quarterly Update on China. It is the report where they forecast the 7.5% annual growth for 2009. First of all, I should thank chinalawblog for showing me the way to it, and also the World Bank itself for doing a very useful report that can be understood by dummies. [...]

Finally Friday. It's been an exhausting week and I feel like I need a little break. Sometimes I wonder why I ever took up Crisis Watch as a hobby. Other China blogs watch cool things like Scandal, or even Shoes. But Crises are an awful thing to watch, believe me. You watch it for a [...]

The China blogosphere brought us some disturbing news again today. This time it's about Foxconn, aka the Hon Hai Precision Industry, based in Taiwan. The rumour has it that it's planning to lay off 100,000. You might remember Foxconn from the funny episode of the IphoneGirl that became world famous for a day. It might [...]

I am quite excited about the new 2009 Growth Forecast for China issued by the World Bank, because it gives exactly the same figure I estimated 2 months ago on my Crisis Page. OK, granted there is a bit of luck in there. But, if you think of it, it was an obvious number to [...]

Last night I was out for a little dance with one of my Shanghai friends. My performance must have been pretty good, because as we were leaving she invited me to join Kaixinwang, and added that she would buy me straight away if I bought her. Now, I didn't know what to make of all [...]

I was writing just yesterday my latest Crisis article when I realized that in Shanghai we have our own economic weak link, with quite a lot of companies that are suffering as much as the Pearl River Delta workshops. I am speaking of foreign startups in Shanghai. One of the things that makes Shanghai such [...]

One of the advantages of Crisis Watching in China is that there's such a large community of observers dedicated to this country that you are never short of ideas. The downside is that with so many voices it is difficult to make sense of the whole thing. To the question in the title, for example, [...]

If you've been around in Shanghai today you might have noticed there was a Beijing nip in the air. One could almost smell the 烤鸭 as the temperature got rapidly freezing by midday. In the same time, the air felt clean like it does in the clean Northern winters, and it's been a great day [...]

I have decided I can't really run a serious China blog without the corresponding “learn Chinese” section. So here you go. This first post is about the HSK (汉语水平考试), which is giving me a lot of trouble these days. HSK is the official test for Chinese language organized by the Beijing Language University. Also known [...]

This weekend the leaders of the most powerful countries in the world met up in Washington to discuss how they are going to pull us out of the big economic mess where we are stuck deeper day after day. After a refreshing dinner in the white house including quail, lamb and Vermont brie, the leaders [...]

Last weekend, as I was browsing the net for some material to get over my post electoral withdrawal, I came across this iconic Obama. I didn't know exactly what it was, but something in it looked very familiar. Very Chinese. I saved it in my Obama bookmarks, and didn't think of it again until Sunday [...]

Just as I was writing the previous entry, I came across this article on the NYT about the packet of fiscal measures that China is taking to the upcoming G20 meeting in Washington. The $586 Billion Stimulus Plan has been announced today on the government website. I was surprised I hadn't seen it come on [...]

Finally, it looks like the Chinese authorities are going to get serious about internet addiction. My favourite Xinhua reader on the sidebar just brought in the scoop, straight from the medical research labs. Internet addiction in China is a well known problem, and it has been quite present on China blogs these last weeks, following [...]

Today was the opening ceremony of the 7th China International Aviation and Aerospace Exhibition of Zhuhai, the main fair of the industry in China. These last days, my Xinhua reader at the bottom of the page has been spitting some interesting news for the occasion, and international media have been quick to follow. Everybody in [...]

Hong Kong – It feels good to travel just for fun once in a while. I flew to HongKong this weekend to say goodbye to a good friend who is leaving Asia, with the firm intention to relax, enjoy the city, and not indulge in any sort of China watching activity. My only serious mission [...]

You know that feeling in the morning sometimes. You wake up with the lark, full of optimism to face a new day, and, before you even had the chance to smell the first espresso, trouble is knocking at your door. It was just like that this morning when my cell phone beeped. It was a [...]

Shanghai – Last night I took my new camera to the 拉面 (lamian) restaurant down the street. Everyone was excited to see me with the new baby, and Mehmet's apprentice absolutely insisted that I take some pictures of him Pulling the Mian. The result is this beautiful parabola underlining his smile. More details on possibly [...]

The Chinese internet community is enthusiastically building up resources to buy crisis stricken Iceland at a bargain. The webste Douban has taken seriously the ebay auction for the Island, and offers the first 10,000 chinese to join the investment group privileged access to houses on the seaside and to government positions. As a +, the [...]

During my travels these last weeks in Europe and Asia, and on my return to China, I have observed some rather striking contrasts. So much that they made me think a lot about the present state of Chinese economy, and here is a word about it. Two different ways of seeing the world I was [...]

Finally, I got my blog in English. It's unbelievable how long time it has taken me to setup the baby. WordPress is piece of cake they say, but when you try to change this font and rearrange that sidebar, and then you see some fancy pic you feel like using for your header. And you [...]

I got a few email greetings today with this title and I found it particularly funny and adapted to year 2009. For those who don't do Chinese, 牛 means “Ox” or “Cow”, and in mandarin it is pronounced “Niu”, which sounds similar to the English “New”. So Happy 牛Year is basically what Chinese picture when [...]

This is a bit of a silly post, I know, and I'm sure it has been done before. But I had to do it anyway. Yesterday I finally remembered to take a picture of my favourite sign in Shanghai, the Rules of the Green Administration Bureau. It is the one that prohibits feudal behaviours, expects [...]

Last night I was going to stay in and write a long, thoughtful post. Instead I went out and took some pictures. The first full moon marks the end of the New Year celebrations. It is called 元宵节, usually known in English as the Night of the Lanterns. Apart from the lanterns, there are also fireworks. [...]

Wow, there's been some activity around here this week. It is exhausting to be in the limelight, and I long to get back my status of internet chopped liver. But no worries, I think I know just how to do that: Everybody knows that serious China bloggers don't do Chinglish. That's for newbies, and we [...]

It is common knowledge that studying a foreign language involves studying a culture. Consciously or not, that is the main reason why people enjoy it. If it weren't for its cultural content, a language would be little more than an empty set of code-words and rules designed with an exasperatingly faulty logic. And learning languages would be just like memorizing the [...]

Yesterday I went for a walk on Nanjing Lu and I witnessed a strange phenomenon I had not seen before: the mooncake brokers. It was last Saturday of mooncake picking season, so they were all busily walking up and down the street, scanning the crowds for potential buyers and sellers. A bit of background: Every [...]

也有一些，虽然不是来自中国，使他们成为当地文化的一部分，由中国彻底拥抱的信念。 一个例子是佛教从印度进口，在远古时代。 另外一个，我已经找到了，是现代管理大师的教学，从美国进口的。 这是[...]

看看我今天在我的信箱中发现什么。 “露齿兔儿童情商训练营的广告！” 你那些有足够的耐心，坚持这个博客可能还记得过去后，我在中国的普及self-help/business书籍，尤其是那些与情绪智能（EQ）。 不奇怪[...]

It looks like Charles over at the new China Divide blog has found a new source of clicks to revive the China blogging scene: debating the crackdown on pornography in China. 虽然我通常不支持任何类型的检查，我不得不说我不关心的色情事业在中国。 [...]

这是在我的博客的新功能。 这是一个后续最初的语言和文化的职位，去年，我从现在承诺继续系列，每星期四，我觉得它。 我们的想法是张贴有关这些语言的好奇心，我遇到我的研究[...]

在本周的语言后，我想在今天使用的许多歧视性的表达，以探讨性别的影响，在书面和口头的中国语言和中国妇女的反应。 鉴于大多数传统文化极为性别按今天的标准，这是很常见的，有在今天的语言中的性别歧视元素。 [...]

在本周的语言后，我想谈谈语言保护主义。 我不知道这是我要找的字，但如果你已经按照过去几周的博客，你可能知道我的意思。 这一切都始于上个月，这项建议禁止英语[...]

在此之前我从来没有想过，但是当我问到这个星期，这是我最喜欢中国的省，我很自然地回答了浙江。 我已经行驶有再次清明假期，我一直反映这是一个了不起的地方。 浙江是在大陆最小的省，只是有点[...]

今天我只想评论中文标点符号的神秘世界。 这是一个迷人的领域在这些时候，每个人都指责中国歧视外国符号。 事实上，有一个外国符号，在几乎每一个现代中国的一句：点，逗号，和[...]

这个星期，我很少有时间做语言后，部分原因是因为我一直忙着写一个简短的故事，一方面是因为我已经讨论了有关在其他博客的语言很好的协议。 我利用这一优势，与我在上海的最后意见后做了长时间的讨论后，我们[...]

外国人享有在中国感叹的事情之一是建筑遗产的破坏。 这是可以理解的，现代中国的文物破坏的可怕纪录，今天有2000多年历史的城市，它是很难找到任何痕迹的老建筑。 但糟糕的是，您可以[...]

我飞回重庆最近，当我阅读中国非常令人沮丧的问题提醒。 有一个机舱电视上的电影，它有一个特殊性：它进行字幕的中文和英文并行，两线相若的字体在屏幕的底部，。 当我看到[...]

在2010年社会蓝皮书由中国社科院公布去年十二月，有一个非常有趣的一块隐藏在330页的社会经济分析。 下的标题是“人口问题，中国在2011年和2015年”应注意，本文中所包含的一些最新的和最消极的数据[...]

我感到非常失望，这在北京的美国驻华大使的故事，所谓的“茉莉花”抗议活动的一部分，当我读到最后一个星期日。 这是为中国的民主支持者（又一次）非常糟糕的消息。 首先，让我们的是严重的。 的想法，大使不知道发生了什么事情，是一个[...]

During my travels these last weeks in Europe and Asia, and on my return to China, I have observed some rather striking contrasts. So much that they made me think a lot about the present state of Chinese economy, and here is a word about it. Two different ways of seeing the world I was [...]

Today was the opening ceremony of the 7th China International Aviation and Aerospace Exhibition of Zhuhai, the main fair of the industry in China. These last days, my Xinhua reader at the bottom of the page has been spitting some interesting news for the occasion, and international media have been quick to follow. Everybody in [...]

Just as I was writing the previous entry, I came across this article on the NYT about the packet of fiscal measures that China is taking to the upcoming G20 meeting in Washington. The $586 Billion Stimulus Plan has been announced today on the government website. I was surprised I hadn't seen it come on [...]

This weekend the leaders of the most powerful countries in the world met up in Washington to discuss how they are going to pull us out of the big economic mess where we are stuck deeper day after day. After a refreshing dinner in the white house including quail, lamb and Vermont brie, the leaders [...]

One of the advantages of Crisis Watching in China is that there's such a large community of observers dedicated to this country that you are never short of ideas. The downside is that with so many voices it is difficult to make sense of the whole thing. To the question in the title, for example, [...]

I was writing just yesterday my latest Crisis article when I realized that in Shanghai we have our own economic weak link, with quite a lot of companies that are suffering as much as the Pearl River Delta workshops. I am speaking of foreign startups in Shanghai. One of the things that makes Shanghai such [...]

I am quite excited about the new 2009 Growth Forecast for China issued by the World Bank, because it gives exactly the same figure I estimated 2 months ago on my Crisis Page. OK, granted there is a bit of luck in there. But, if you think of it, it was an obvious number to [...]

The China blogosphere brought us some disturbing news again today. This time it's about Foxconn, aka the Hon Hai Precision Industry, based in Taiwan. The rumour has it that it's planning to lay off 100,000. You might remember Foxconn from the funny episode of the IphoneGirl that became world famous for a day. It might [...]

Yesterday I read the World Bank's Quarterly Update on China. It is the report where they forecast the 7.5% annual growth for 2009. First of all, I should thank chinalawblog for showing me the way to it, and also the World Bank itself for doing a very useful report that can be understood by dummies. [...]

Now that inflation seems under control, unemployment has been identified by most as the real threat to Chinese stability in 2009. The risk of massive layoffs and social unrest is so obvious that you hardly need an economist to identify it. My blue taxi driver was telling me about it only a minute ago. [...]

This week the international observers are observing us with renewed interest: China's Annual Central Economic Work Conference is being held in Beijing Monday to Wednesday, where the country's leaders will decide how to maintain a stable economic growth that will “improve people's livelihood“. Expectations are high on the meeting that will change the World. [...]

I have been looking carefully at the Xinhua serial feeder today, and it's been as expected: no news from Beijing. At least now we know who and when (Hu and Wen) attended the conference, but that's about all they tell us from The Annual Meeting to Set the Tone for the Economic Development Next Year. [...]

I was thinking last night of the stimulus package and of how, since the beginning of the crisis, economy has invaded every conversation, and we all go about speaking of Billions and Trillions like nobody's business. And I have decided to write this little post to explain to my readers what is a Billion and [...]

Hm, no comments. I wonder what the readers are thinking of all this. I can picture some scratching their heads and trying to type in lines of zeros in their office calculator. “RMBs to the Moon? Rubbish! Show me the money!” Here's my little math for the non believers: 4,000,000,000,000RMB * (0.015m/10,000RMB) = 6,000,000 m [...]

This week David Dollar has a very informative post: On exchange rates, think multilaterally. It is an analysis of the RMB exchange rates and their change over time. Using one of those useful trade-weighted indexes that the World Bank likes so much, David goes over the history of RMB exchange rates from the 90s to [...]

When I left China for the holidays I was pretty sure I would not manage to write a single line on the blog until my return. China is such a stimulating place that every day I am jotting down notes, and my blog runs 20 posts behind myself. In Europe the stimulus would stop – [...]

I know I shouldn't be linking the same source all the time, but since I got my new coded connection I have rediscovered the Time China Blog and I just can't get my eyes off it. Check out this picture of the rich corn fields in Ningxia in their last post by Lin Yang. [...]后

You will excuse me for writing two serious posts in a row. It's been ages we don't do anything on the Crisis, and these days there's been a series of articles on the subject that I couldn't just let pass. Two of them have to do with the growth projections for 2009. 打哈欠。 We've been [...]

You know how Wen Jia Bao asked us this week to have “faith and determination“, and added that the “nation will be the first to recover” from the crisis and grasp the opportunities available. Then come the experts of the World Economic Forum, who are getting ready for their yearly skiing holiday, and they publish [...]

More bad news about the Crisis. Yesterday All Roads had another of those worrying posts: 3 Announcements and 2 Rumours, and not one of them good. Still, on our return from the double New Year's season, many of us are suprised to see the sky is not falling on our heads, and the dire predictions [...]

Finally, we have a new blogger in the community who has moved all the way to South America to bridge-blog about the Chinese expansion there and other interesting stuff. Tom Pellman is Double Handshake. He was an editor in a well known economics magazine in Shanghai, he is almost trilingual in Chinese and he is [...]

我今天开始，留下了深刻的印象，在去年最让我对中国经济的书籍，“有中国特色的资本主义”我的检讨部分，由麻省理工学院教授黄亚生。 It is a book that clearly stands out from the recent China books, and it might be destined to become one of [...]

Xinhua has come up with the most brilliant in-depth analysis of the economic crisis that we've read to date. BEIJING, March 8 (Xinhua) — China's relatively fast economic growth has caught the eye of the world at a time when most of the countries are experiencing the full wrath of a raging economic slowdown. [...]

Oh, thank you, thank you Xinhua and thank you editor Yan. Thank you for adding now pictures to your yesterday's article : China's “scientific development” works to counter economic downturn. And thank you for choosing the most beautiful of the slides you published last week, the one which I call: “La vie en rosy” Now [...]

It's been half a year since the first announcement of the Chinese stimulus package, and the time has come to look back and ask ourselves: how is the Crisis doing to-day? Well, we don't need to surf very far to find some hints. Judging by the attention she gets in the media, the Crisis is still [...]

From the post left unfinished last week. Some of the main arguments read (or heard) in China Crisis discussions: The Time Economies don't grow indefinitely. Low cycles follow high cycles and after 30 years it is about time. China cannot break the laws of economics, so the recession must necessarily come in the next X [...]

Last year I wrote a post about foreign entrepreneurs in Shanghai that included a Big Question with a link: Who gets rich in China? The page attracted a ridiculous amount of search engine hits considering its dumb content, which proves that it was indeed a hot question. Time passed and I never got around to [...]

I enjoyed reading this article by Evelyn Chan on the Carter Center blog. It is clear and well written and in my opinion it is right on the money. It's the article I would have liked to write on the stimulus package (h/t CDT) When it comes to Chinese economy I have always been a bit [...]

虎浮出水面。 新的十年已经在西方，在中国，我们是在没有人的土地，太阳能和农历新年之间的牛和老虎之间，再次。 它是时间回过头来看看我们所处的位置。 在世界政治中[...]

I have written a lot recently about the Great Firewall of China (GFW). I had my site blocked for two weeks and this inspired some frustrated posts until eventually I worked my way through the Wall. The good news is I learnt a lot in the process, and now I can write some tips to [...]

经过几个月的桂枝茯苓丸的树荫中，我想再度活跃在互联网上，作为第一步，今天我已经畅通，我的博客。 我觉得有一些怪癖，因为我是今天上午移动到新的URL和一些你可能已经看到[...]

Finally, I got my blog in English. It's unbelievable how long time it has taken me to setup the baby. WordPress is piece of cake they say, but when you try to change this font and rearrange that sidebar, and then you see some fancy pic you feel like using for your header. And you [...]

The Chinese internet community is enthusiastically building up resources to buy crisis stricken Iceland at a bargain. The webste Douban has taken seriously the ebay auction for the Island, and offers the first 10,000 chinese to join the investment group privileged access to houses on the seaside and to government positions. As a +, the [...]

Finally, it looks like the Chinese authorities are going to get serious about internet addiction. My favourite Xinhua reader on the sidebar just brought in the scoop, straight from the medical research labs. Internet addiction in China is a well known problem, and it has been quite present on China blogs these last weeks, following [...]

Last night I was out for a little dance with one of my Shanghai friends. My performance must have been pretty good, because as we were leaving she invited me to join Kaixinwang, and added that she would buy me straight away if I bought her. Now, I didn't know what to make of all [...]

These last years we've seen many of the big newspapers scanning and digitizing their historic archives, and sometimes even allowing full access to non-subscriptors. Such is the case of the NYT, Atlantic Monthly, Guardian and many others. These archives constitute great tools for research, and provide irresistible eye candy for history nerds like Uln. But [...]

I love the way Xinhua refers to the People's Daily as a “mouthpiece newspaper”, or “the mouthpiece of the ruling party”. For example, in this otherwise boring article that I just read. Recommended if you need to doze off for a quick siesta. I find all this mouthpiece thing funny in 3 different ways, which [...]

I got a bit excited last night with my new VPN connection. For a few hours I thought I'd found Democracy in a Box, neatly packaged in a 40$ yearly subscription. I have been since exploring new horizons. Today, second day using VPN I've had 2 surprises, one good and one bad: The good one [...]

哇！ The People's Daily (AKA the Mouthpiece Newspaper) is getting state-of-the-art technology for its online English edition: you can now listen to the articles at the same time as you read them. I'm just back from their website where I have heard these words of Grandpa Wen pronounced by HAL 9000: “We must have faith [...]

Last Sunday I did a post on internet censorship in China where I mixed in various different ideas and I'm afraid the final result regarding Search Engine Censorship didn't come out as clear as I would have liked. I think it is an important subject, so here are the complete results: We will be looking [...]

I don't usually do direct accusations on this site, because I know better than searching conflict, and I understand nobody is perfect and we all make mistakes. But this one I cannot let pass, it is too low and too gratuitous. It is sad: why does it have to be China who tells the first [...]

Since I started posting about censorship I've noticed that the basics of the system are not clearly understood by many readers outside China. This post is to classify and explain the system in the most simple way possible. It is largely drawn from my own experience as a user in China and from the studies [...]

There was some buzz last week on the Chinese internet about this supposedly new concept of Online Democracy. The excitement started with the weird “elude the cat” story, and then continued when Premier Wen JiaBao chatted online with “internet friends” . David Bandurski of the China Media Project, who has been watching these things for [...]

中国超博客韩寒开始一本杂志。 他先前宣布，它在自己的博客，已经给他最后发表的文章的详细信息发送条汇票和求职申请。 我了解到这个昨晚我的朋友2Ting，急切地准备自己的简历和介绍函。 The literati of the post-80s [...]

It was exactly one year ago, almost to the minute. It was Monday, and we had started our meeting at 2pm in the 22nd floor of the client's headquarters. About an hour later, in the middle of heated negotiations, there was an awkward silence. It took a long moment before we understood what was making [...]

So guess what now: I am blocked. I am banned, prohibited, harmonized, river-crabbed. Censored, in short, by the Great FireWall of China. If you are reading my blog now and have not noticed anything strange, it is because either: 1- You are reading the blog from outside China and therefore you are not going through [...]

So OK, I am censored, but why NOW? I mean, I haven't been writing anything for ages, is the Propaganda Department punishing me for being lazy? Has some big Chinese BBS linked to me recently, is Uln hot now? As I was looking around for an answer, I found out that the Peking Duck blog was [...]

It was about time Mozilla issued their new revision. Ever since Firefox emerged as the big challenger of Explorer many of us switched to this swift browser with the unlimited add-ons. As time passed, we grew so used to all the fox capabilities that it became normal for an internet browser to perform the most [...]

So there you are. July 1st passed without any major incident and the famous Anonymous Netizens didn't show up. I am as blocked as ever and the Nutty Nannies of China are still running loose on the web, unimpressed by the headless suit . I cannot say it is a surprise, frankly the chances of [...]

This week I had some interesting conversations on other blogs, mostly regarding my state of internet blockdom and the possible actions that a webmaster can take to solve this problem. I will share here some conclusions that might be of interest. Just to make sure we don't forget anything, I will go first over the [...]

I have written a lot recently about the Great Firewall of China (GFW). I had my site blocked for two weeks and this inspired some frustrated posts until eventually I worked my way through the Wall. The good news is I learnt a lot in the process, and now I can write some tips to [...]

Have you been watching Xinjiang TV these days? I am a fan. It's the new Love TV, a 24-7 concentrate of all the corniest efforts by the Chinese official media to promote harmony after the events of 5th July. Smiling kids, flowery dances, long meetings of interethnic neighbour associations discussing love and togetherness. Best served [...]

I just learn from Reuters that US is testing system to break foreign Web censorship. This is the first news I have that the US government is trying to outsmart the GFW. Fantastic, after the anonymous hackers now it is the most powerful state in the World that will confront the dreaded wall. The war [...]

还有很多事情最近在“媒体的消亡”领域。 特别是在中国，我们已经看到壮观的由詹姆斯·法洛斯和其他职位系列，铸造一些奥巴马对中国的访问结果。 对于旧与新媒体的辩论，这不能算[...]

我昨晚摆弄一些统计数据，考虑到中国互联网心胸狭窄，我们一直在讨论最近的奇怪的想法。 表达本身就是奇怪，因为“互联网”和“与世隔绝”，形成一个矛盾，但你很难注意到这些东西，当你住在这里。 这是正常的程序，在社会主义市场经济的土地[...]

读这对韩汉对“中国日报”的咆哮。 我不得不说我不喜欢的音色，它读取像它的书面羡慕失败者。 但它是一种智能失败者，和他打钉头部几次。 他是绝对权的主要论文[...]

再见2009。 这里是另一个年底的Chinayouren特别的运作满一年后的第一个。 坚持围绕感谢所有。 像往常一样，我们将开始与中国在新闻的普及。 今年比以往任何时候都更有趣的是，因为2010年是一个全面的数字，中国的早期鸟类[...]

顺便说一下，我看了昨晚的电影头像。 这是一个惊人的中国观察员的经验，我得出这样的启发性的结论：电影与中国毫不相干。 即使今年韩寒的互联网和男子王认为的相反，该地块为[...]

哇。 Baidu.com已经被砍死今天上午9:30左右，刚刚在下午三时。 超过5时30小时的停机时间。 最糟糕的是，他们有没有办法隐藏这是一个黑客，甚至人民日报刊登的照片。 也许媒体的党不考虑中国的光荣事业的一部分网站[...]

首先，读谷歌官方博客上发布这篇文章。 这是所有你需要阅读的时刻，因为那里没有更多的第一手资料。 它被出版了约5个小时前。 它说，在一个相当混乱的方式基本上是：谷歌已检测到的攻击[...]

继上一篇关于谷歌和中国，这里有我的思考，关于这一切都在可预见的后果。 首先，一个重要的澄清：我不认为对审查的战斗是坏。 在中国的检查是非常现实的，它是一个不仅活动家，但最诚实的中国的耻辱，只[...]

已经有很少的新信息化的今天，媒体和博客的最重要的是同样的想法周围转动，其中许多人已经提到，在过去的2个系列的职位。 这里是一些有趣的新的我已经收集点，我认为是值得评论：有一种[...]

我知道，在世界上有其他新闻，我可能不会对他们给予足够的重视。 但我不能帮助它，我一直在试图了解谷歌的决定在过去48小时超频，我读每一篇文章在互联网上出现了自。 我仍然不明白这一点。 我想[...]

十年的战斗，黑暗势力对中国commy政府为非作恶的公司谷歌的一些图像。 今天在Google.cn上的标志下面。 显然，大G发送邮件到中国：我们尊重你，我们挖的古老文化，它仅仅是你的恶心[...]

百度首席技术官李沂南辞职的消息传出作为冲击Chinayouren，我仍然在CDT的目瞪口呆goggling眼睛。 这将会使更多的噪音，现在比它通常，人会很快找到了与谷歌中国的内政，[...]连接

回顾上周我写我知道，我努力保持冷静的头脑和分析的事件，我忘了说一件很重要的事情：我很尊重谷歌。 我从未有过的非业务性质，其决定有任何疑问，尽管在我们调查的结果，我[...]

你可能想知道为什么这个故事的谷歌占用了这么大的空间，在这个技术含量低的博客。 我也。 我想我着迷的是第一手的新闻后的G炸弹几乎完全没有。 时间是猜测，并为中国博客和茶叶读者[...]

回到了工作岗位。 在重新读取，我有我可能是过于乐观，昨天的感觉。 当然，谷歌宣布的风格出卖个人的参与，并曾在谈判桌上，它是可以预料，更务实的气氛将占上风。 但是，如果G闭嘴，这是不知道[...]

圣抽烟！ 东西是在谷歌中国移动。 我一直工作在过去的12小时内与谷歌文档，我才意识到我用的是易建联的电脑，一个没有安装的VPN。 这意味着，Google文档，是因为昨天晚上至少畅通。 所以是“Google网上论坛”！ 这两个网站[...]

注：对于那些已经在过去的3天里，我的读者，这是一本关于谷歌Buzz，新的Google服务已经入侵世界的邮箱本周一职。 但别紧张，保持几秒钟之内，不要急于GFW的测试工具，这尚未发生。 我只是想[...]

最后，经过一个漫长的一周激烈的人大，政协的覆盖，春天的第一个迹象已经开始绽放在上海的记者。 东方早报与促进世博会在纽约时代广场的大型广告牌的照片打开，而其竞争对手，较为保守的上海早报，显示在[......]

谷歌的新方法对中国的情况比预期的慢，但我有感觉，我们可能会看到事情发生很快。 新年过后，双人会议几乎忘了，中国政府将可能需要清除在议程前的下一个大项目，[...]

今天早上，我正在做一些测试，在Google上看到，在搜索结果中如果有任何变化，我注意到一个细节，我没有想到前：虽然每个人都被描述为“在中国举办的”Google.cn，IP美国，你可以看到域名。 事实上，除与优惠[...]

因此，谷歌做了最后。 原来我最坏的预测是正确的，和Google.cn流亡生活，来自香港的权威挑战，中国政府的。 讲燃烧桥梁。 像往常一样，大多数评论员我们有完全搞错了。 这是不是谷歌提供[...]

有多少次，我们看到了中国论坛上讨论究竟什么是软实力？ 说白方的神秘力量，绝地利用国际政治中的所有参数，把自己的优势？ 中国多年来一直觊觎这个武器，并在寻求花费许多宝贵的资源，但所有[...]

关于新媒体和报纸死亡的辩论已肆虐多年的免费上网。 In the Chinese intranet [1], however, this question doesn't raise so much interest, because journalism here was already murdered long ago by the hideous hand of the censors. It is for this reason that [...]

上周，我做了后，我给三个原因，我想东方早报靡烂。 这个星期，我读到一篇文章从上海DeluxZilla博客，让下面的观察：尽管是党报，我是上海早报风扇[...]

中国档案正在寻找一个英语为母语的总部设在上海，2010年上海世博会期间的兼职工作的扬声器。 最好是用新闻或媒体相关工作经验。 在视频和摄影的经验，将是一个优势。 我们正在寻找聪明，积极与良好的沟通技巧的人。 此人将负责[...]

这里是韩寒昨日审查的更新，随着时间的提名，这可能是比它更重要的一见钟情出现一些额外的信息。 然后，如果你停留直到本章结束时，我们会穿上黄色的袜子，分析多一点，可怕的祸害[...]

这已经由历史学家香Zhenkuai的小片取下来，从“南方都市报”，但它已设法逃避审查其他一些网站上。 我喜欢香港批评中共王朝的统治，微妙的方式和凉爽的“L'国家花莲莫伊”中国渲染为“朕即国家”。 因为我没有时间，[...]

今天，我只是想分享这幅画，一个勇敢的记者在东方的卫生纸，谁是第一时间赶赴现场，采取：这是一个全新的雕塑被称为“沟通”，刚从美国到上海纪念30年来两国关系的开幕。 [...]

东方早报的一个小更新。 我知道没有人会感兴趣，因为没有人真正读取这个文件（不连它的编辑），但为统一起见，我要告知他们新的攻击。 我在这个新的篇章，他们迷人的螺旋地狱。 周末的东方有下列[...]

下面是分析我们的朋友在天涯BBS迈克尔的命运后，我答应。 迈克尔（卖抠）是在中国的小故事，我写了上周的主角。 不是我写的故事，特别是为这一目的，但一旦它在那里，我认为这将是一个好主意[...]

经过几个月的桂枝茯苓丸的树荫中，我想再度活跃在互联网上，作为第一步，今天我已经畅通，我的博客。 我觉得有一些怪癖，因为我是今天上午移动到新的URL和一些你可能已经看到[...]

我很高兴在周末，我们得到了中国电视上的电视报告。 它是出奇的新鲜，不同的专家，在与日本NHK的直播和直接连接。 在一些点在财经频道，有受害者的图像，照片幻灯片播放迈克尔·杰克逊的“拯救世界”，[...]

所以很多事情都发生在中国境外，现在，我的角色已经发生了逆转，有奇怪的感觉，一旦我们所有的目光的目标，而不是围观。 感觉轻松，我注意到它有一个很大的影响，以及对中国电视。 荒谬的压迫后[...]

伟大的中国禁毒刚刚出版了由詹姆斯·A·米尔沃德Facebook的争议性计划有关中国的文章。 文化/人权的角度，从书面文章，它包含了一个有趣的段落从鲁迅的呐喊。 “想象一下，一个铁屋子没有窗户，绝对坚不可摧，许多睡熟里面的人很快就会窒息而死。 [...]

I have decided I can't really run a serious China blog without the corresponding “learn Chinese” section. So here you go. This first post is about the HSK (汉语水平考试), which is giving me a lot of trouble these days. HSK is the official test for Chinese language organized by the Beijing Language University. Also known [...]

Finally Friday. It's been an exhausting week and I feel like I need a little break. Sometimes I wonder why I ever took up Crisis Watch as a hobby. Other China blogs watch cool things like Scandal, or even Shoes. But Crises are an awful thing to watch, believe me. You watch it for a [...]

Busy week. Yesterday I had to cancel my Chinese lesson in the last minute due to an unexpected request from one of my hardcore Chinese clients. It made me feel miserable, partly because I always feel like a 9-to-5 bitch when I have to break my word for a client. But most importantly, because I [...]

I got a few email greetings today with this title and I found it particularly funny and adapted to year 2009. For those who don't do Chinese, 牛 means “Ox” or “Cow”, and in mandarin it is pronounced “Niu”, which sounds similar to the English “New”. So Happy 牛Year is basically what Chinese picture when [...]

I was wondering lately why do I get so many people coming into my “Learning Chinese” category, which I haven't updated for ages. It struck me just now: of course, New Years Resolutions! How many expat readers have made the firm resolution to improve their Chinese this year? I for one. Why do we do [...]

Over the weekend I read this post on zompist that creates a new writing system for English called “Yingzi”: how would English look if it was written with characters. h/t FOARP It is an enjoyable read and it is useful to explain to those back home that don't study Chinese how characters work. In Europe, [...]

It is common knowledge that studying a foreign language involves studying a culture. Consciously or not, that is the main reason why people enjoy it. If it weren't for its cultural content, a language would be little more than an empty set of code-words and rules designed with an exasperatingly faulty logic. And learning languages would be just like memorizing the [...]

The other day I saw a tourist bus from Nanjing that caught my eye. On one side the name of the travel company was written in Chinese characters, and below it there was a text written in a mysterious language: “ISGNOG NAIXUOY EHCIQ UOYVL NAITGNEH GNIJ NAN” Initially I thought it must be Uyghur, but [...]

我回上海了一些有趣的轶事和日本的一些轻度有趣的图片。 不幸的是，我不会发表任何因为这一周，我在中国的工作行程忙碌，特别是因为这是汉语水平考试周。 是一样好，我想，毕竟[...]

我知道，我应该学习的权利，不写职位。 但我只是呼吸稍微模拟考试两届会议之间，我在学习一门新的语言引人入胜的过程中反映，以及如何，当你通过几次，你最终会发展自己的秘密方法。 ..]

来自于生活的每一个学生的普通话点时，他觉得写的语言困难的呼叫。 时间终于来到了我，我会按照主人的路径。 事实上，我打算走得更远。 我证明[...]

上星期五，我写了一个很长的职位，我结束了包括太多的想法。 的主要点位了，结果掩盖，但它是简单地此：在学习一门语言，词汇起着至关重要的作用，不仅是因为中国这个极其困难的，在一个先进的[...]

在本系列的前两个职位，我们看到，中国是世界的语言保持了一套完整独立的词汇根和非代表他们的语音脚本，我们可以称之为一个单独的词系统。 出于这个原因，我认为，中国可能是最困难的[...]

这是在我的博客的新功能。 这是一个后续最初的语言和文化的职位，去年，我从现在承诺继续系列，每星期四，我觉得它。 我们的想法是张贴有关这些语言的好奇心，我遇到我的研究[...]

在本周的语言后，我想在今天使用的许多歧视性的表达，以探讨性别的影响，在书面和口头的中国语言和中国妇女的反应。 鉴于大多数传统文化极为性别按今天的标准，这是很常见的，有在今天的语言中的性别歧视元素。 [...]

在本周的语言后，我想谈谈语言保护主义。 我不知道这是我要找的字，但如果你已经按照过去几周的博客，你可能知道我的意思。 这一切都始于上个月，这项建议禁止英语[...]

今天我只想评论中文标点符号的神秘世界。 这是一个迷人的领域在这些时候，每个人都指责中国歧视外国符号。 事实上，有一个外国符号，在几乎每一个现代中国的一句：点，逗号，和[...]

这是我第一次在中国的短篇小说。 标题是“迷失东京”，它说明了糟糕的普通话发音的潜在后果。 If you don't read Chinese I left a little summary in comments, or else use G Translator to get the enhanced experience [1]. UPDATE: I have reposted this on Tianya to [...]

这个星期，我很少有时间做语言后，部分原因是因为我一直忙着写一个简短的故事，一方面是因为我已经讨论了有关在其他博客的语言很好的协议。 我利用这一优势，与我在上海的最后意见后做了长时间的讨论后，我们[...]

我飞回重庆最近，当我阅读中国非常令人沮丧的问题提醒。 有一个机舱电视上的电影，它有一个特殊性：它进行字幕的中文和英文并行，两线相若的字体在屏幕的底部，。 当我看到[...]

Shanghai – Last night I took my new camera to the 拉面 (lamian) restaurant down the street. Everyone was excited to see me with the new baby, and Mehmet's apprentice absolutely insisted that I take some pictures of him Pulling the Mian. The result is this beautiful parabola underlining his smile. More details on possibly [...]

You know that feeling in the morning sometimes. You wake up with the lark, full of optimism to face a new day, and, before you even had the chance to smell the first espresso, trouble is knocking at your door. It was just like that this morning when my cell phone beeped. It was a [...]

Hong Kong – It feels good to travel just for fun once in a while. I flew to HongKong this weekend to say goodbye to a good friend who is leaving Asia, with the firm intention to relax, enjoy the city, and not indulge in any sort of China watching activity. My only serious mission [...]

Last weekend, as I was browsing the net for some material to get over my post electoral withdrawal, I came across this iconic Obama. I didn't know exactly what it was, but something in it looked very familiar. Very Chinese. I saved it in my Obama bookmarks, and didn't think of it again until Sunday [...]

If you've been around in Shanghai today you might have noticed there was a Beijing nip in the air. One could almost smell the 烤鸭 as the temperature got rapidly freezing by midday. In the same time, the air felt clean like it does in the clean Northern winters, and it's been a great day [...]

I was writing just yesterday my latest Crisis article when I realized that in Shanghai we have our own economic weak link, with quite a lot of companies that are suffering as much as the Pearl River Delta workshops. I am speaking of foreign startups in Shanghai. One of the things that makes Shanghai such [...]

The other day it was too cold to get my Linder started, so I had to go and flag a cab instead. I got one of the green chubby ones. Green cabs are well known for being stubborn, having a true passion for History and polishing their nails 5 times a day. Remember: never never [...]

One more from the Bridge Blogger: Lately I have received by email these pictures that are widely circulating on the Spanish speaking internet. They apparently originated in Colombia, so they are referred by some as Colombianadas. Colombianadas are the Latin American equivalent of Chinglish: signs and other pieces of writing with a twist of unintended [...]

After what I wrote last week in my sensationalistic post of the Tower of Babel, I have continued to follow as promised my Path to Enlightment. The results are modest for the moment, but I've found already five good links to get me closer to smelling Chinese politics. And I have added these 5 links [...]

I was thinking last night of the stimulus package and of how, since the beginning of the crisis, economy has invaded every conversation, and we all go about speaking of Billions and Trillions like nobody's business. And I have decided to write this little post to explain to my readers what is a Billion and [...]

Hm, no comments. I wonder what the readers are thinking of all this. I can picture some scratching their heads and trying to type in lines of zeros in their office calculator. “RMBs to the Moon? Rubbish! Show me the money!” Here's my little math for the non believers: 4,000,000,000,000RMB * (0.015m/10,000RMB) = 6,000,000 m [...]

It is Friday. It's a beautiful, beautiful day. I'm in an excellent mood this morning, pondering the unexpected turns of Fate and Fortune. I mean, take the weather in Shanghai, for example. Did you ever imagine we would see these long weeks of clean blue skies? You lose faith in things and then they happen, [...]

As I am writing this entry, 2008 has finished in China. Fortunately, we still have a few hours in Home Country to fit in my last 08 post before the evening aperitif. I take the chance to get back in action after this week's holidays and do my little roundup of 2008. It has been [...]

I had to do it, really, I couldn't stand it one second more and it was getting on my nerves. It's all very good to show solidarity and suffer with the people, but I have my limits. This time back in Europe I got used to the advantages of an adult life and I can't [...]

I know I shouldn't be linking the same source all the time, but since I got my new coded connection I have rediscovered the Time China Blog and I just can't get my eyes off it. Check out this picture of the rich corn fields in Ningxia in their last post by Lin Yang. [...]后

Some strange things happening in this blog: Post unpunned? It is hard to resist when you are writing a post and you see the chance to put in one of your puns, but lately I've been pretty good at it. It's been more than a month, for example, that I don't refer to the Leadership [...]

We are at the beginning of a historic week, and I just can't not write about Obama's inauguration. This blog is also about changing the World, and there is a chance that this Tuesday will be one of those days that changes everything. Call me a dreamer, but I want to believe that this new [...]

I can't wait to see the speech tonight. I have spent the whole midday lunch hour (and a bit more) tinkering with the NYT and others speech analysis sites. I have learnt more about the speeches of previous American presidents that I ever knew before. And in particular I have learnt one surprising detail. Those [...]

Today is the last of the Rat days. Happy 牛 Year to all! And byebye too, I won't be around for the next few days: I'm off to where the weather suits my clothes, down to the charming shores of Southern Fujian. I will take the chance before I pack up to write my little [...]

What is the meaning of life and work? How can it possibly be so cold in the same latitude as the Sahara desert? Where did you put the camera's battery charger? What do you mean “where did YOU put”? These and many others are the fundamental questions you ask when back to Shanghai after a [...]

Here is the illustrated report of our Fujian trip. Today I present some clear symptoms of blogorrhea after my 5 day internet abstinence. So we'll try to keep it ruly and live up to my Bull Year's resolutions. I am applying the special astringent potion: Max 5 words per picture. The rest in your imagination: [...]

This is a bit of a silly post, I know, and I'm sure it has been done before. But I had to do it anyway. Yesterday I finally remembered to take a picture of my favourite sign in Shanghai, the Rules of the Green Administration Bureau. It is the one that prohibits feudal behaviours, expects [...]

Last night I was going to stay in and write a long, thoughtful post. Instead I went out and took some pictures. The first full moon marks the end of the New Year celebrations. It is called 元宵节, usually known in English as the Night of the Lanterns. Apart from the lanterns, there are also fireworks. [...]

I have a bunch of friends back in Spain who are always quick to send me the juiciest China news coming up over there, and to supervise that I'm fulfilling my duties as a bridge blogger. This time I have received a couple of links from Spanish newspapers El Pais and El Mundo where there [...]

Finally, we have a new blogger in the community who has moved all the way to South America to bridge-blog about the Chinese expansion there and other interesting stuff. Tom Pellman is Double Handshake. He was an editor in a well known economics magazine in Shanghai, he is almost trilingual in Chinese and he is [...]

Ever since I opened this blog the problem of credibility has been in the back of my mind. These days, the comments of a tenacious part-time troll, as well as some recent events that shook the Chinosphere have brought back the subject to the top of my agenda. It is well known that Chinablogs* (defined [...]

Wow, there's been some activity around here this week. It is exhausting to be in the limelight, and I long to get back my status of internet chopped liver. But no worries, I think I know just how to do that: Everybody knows that serious China bloggers don't do Chinglish. That's for newbies, and we [...]

My anonymous friend N. has sent in this picture recently taken in an underground station in Shanghai Xuhui. It is a poster depicting a (Kazakh?) horseman riding with a baby just at the moment when a Shanghai policeman has engaged him in a vicious exchange of toothiness. Government slogans are some of the phrases that [...]

Another one by the cell phone scam-buster. Take a look at the picture. This baby beeped into my life the other day at 4am, just as I was getting ready to switch into deep sleep. I knew it was spam, but I couldn't help the reflex. I stretched out one arm, opened one eye and [...]

“The country is changing so fast!” , this is one of the things I usually say back home to explain why I find living in China so exciting. Today my street has changed very fast indeed. Linder was lucky enough to spend the night in the garden, but other bikes where not so lucky. Inexorably [...]

Today it was a calm morning, the perfect Sunny day to take a long lunch break like we do back in homeland. So at midday sharp I took my bike and rode over to my new favourite reading spot. It is a bright, silent cafe, where reading is the main part of the menu. 我[...]

哦，亲爱的。 This is a disaster. I haven't written anything for a month! Now is when I have to come up with some good excuse. Like: Spring has finally come to China; I have been travelling a bit in the dusty real-sphere of Shanxi; a band of homeland friends cheerfully invaded Shanghai, bringing with them [...]

Some pictures of my recent travels in Shanxi & Shanxi. As with past editions, 5 words per picture. The Shanxis have solid history There are some alarming Gods And alarming fire fighting equipment Guanyu deserved better than polystyrene The council should buy benches The way of The Way is a rather steep Way No, I kid [...]

Last Saturday we went down to Anar to watch the Lions of Puxi. This is a reggae band recently formed in Shanghai, with some familiar faces of the expat music scene, including some of the guys we usually see at JZ. I am not much of a music critic, but I can say this band sounds [...]

It was exactly one year ago, almost to the minute. It was Monday, and we had started our meeting at 2pm in the 22nd floor of the client's headquarters. About an hour later, in the middle of heated negotiations, there was an awkward silence. It took a long moment before we understood what was making [...]

The mysterious ways of computer science. Today for example, I completely panicked when I stumbled into one of the bugs of wordpress. For some reason, when you add a “click to read more” tag next to a section in bold, it goes and turns the whole blog to bold, including sidebar, titles and header. 因此，[...]

在世界环境日下午，在上海的天空已经几乎完全黑（棕）下午三时，这些小婴儿从天上掉下。 In the same time, many “Environment Day” squadrons were busy in the parks and beaches for the 1 hour long volunteer cleaning up activity. 我希望[...]

So guess what now: I am blocked. I am banned, prohibited, harmonized, river-crabbed. Censored, in short, by the Great FireWall of China. If you are reading my blog now and have not noticed anything strange, it is because either: 1- You are reading the blog from outside China and therefore you are not going through [...]

这是我最喜欢的大学校园宏伟的正门在上海：HuaShiDa。 我喜欢这个入口，因为它是非常绿色，非常完整，它拥有一切从环岛标志1敬礼的巨型毛泽东，背景中的建筑起重机。 But what I like most is the inscription: SEEK [...]

After a terrible weekend in front of the computer I have managed to re-open my site on a new URL. I am fed up of the internet right now and I am going out to enjoy the Shanghai Sun for a few hours. I will try not to write more about this for a while, [...]

You haven't really seen a city until you have been to its zoo. I have known this fact since I was 5 years old, and after many years I suddenly remembered it again last Sunday, and I decided it was about time I went to the Shanghai zoo. When you grow up you realize zoos [...]

It has been a while since I last wrote, and now I feel the typical blogger's guilt, the same that drives some weaker souls to start all their blog posts with unasked apologies. But worry not, we are not that kind of blog. We don't ask for forgiveness here, and that is because we already [...]

A middle aged man in a dark suit left this car. He didn't look in the least embarrassed. Was he a pedophile? A cadre under the influence, bringing it home to sweetie? Or just the resigned father of a normal Shanghai girl? I didn't stop to ask. But I appreciated the customized kitty steering wheel, [...]

First impressions are usually mistaken, but they are also interesting because the eye is alert to any novelty, and the culture clash is rich with ideas. Warning: this post contains sweeping generalizations. Take it for what it is, and if you are serious about understanding Japan you might want to look somewhere else. I came [...]

它是我的幸运日。 今天在重庆的马拉松式的会议被中止会议中，和我们整个下午为自己探索城市在雾中。 这个地方感觉像中国所有的精力集中在一个小半岛。 或许，结果是不漂亮，但它是强烈的。 [...]

A.加尔布雷思的“中国经济评论，不要错过这个故事。 在中国的反应，病毒长时间的辩论，这是最合理的意见，我已经看到了在很长一段时间，也是最好的通知。 故事使我想起我的朋友，在西班牙的医生回来，告诉我，当我[...]

这一切Ğ谈话的最后几天给我带来了很多读者从世界高新技术，我觉得现在对他们的责任报告的最新创新。 这就是为什么昨天我在我的周日步行决定散步到当地的公共厕所，其中最新的发展总是[...]

这个周末，我已进入中国保守派的性别从我筋疲力尽研究的突破，更新网站的旧零件，并完成我最近一直在试图推行一些新的功能。 2.0版本中的变化是不相关的设计，所以他们可能不会立即显现出来[...]

我首次访问世博作为一个孩子，我的学校时带走了我所有一起上课，塞维利亚92。 西班牙住了疯狂的一年，奥运会，其中发生在同一时间，那年夏天，世博会是有史以来规模最大的之一。 现在想在中国，有[...]

我只注意到这幅画，我今天上午参加了在​​小车道。 意图是说明了奥林匹克精神，终于来到上海当地社区。 结果是，我不知不觉地反映在公告板玻璃盖了自己冷静的肖像。 这是典型的中国动机消息[...]

今天是新外滩开放一天。 经过十年高架流入这条街的道路，城市规划者们终于意识到，5车道的高速公路是不是最好的东西在你著名的海滨长廊的中间有。 今年他们一直忙着，二环路[...]

所有的惊人的事情发生在中国给我，我在我的手机的SMS消息是其中之一。 当我第一次到上海3年前我还年轻，我的心是充满野心。 急于为自己的名称，在当地企业界，[...]

在此之前我从来没有想过，但是当我问到这个星期，这是我最喜欢中国的省，我很自然地回答了浙江。 我已经行驶有再次清明假期，我一直反映这是一个了不起的地方。 浙江是在大陆最小的省，只是有点[...]

今天，我只是想分享这幅画，一个勇敢的记者在东方的卫生纸，谁是第一时间赶赴现场，采取：这是一个全新的雕塑被称为“沟通”，刚从美国到上海纪念30年来两国关系的开幕。 [...]

星期六有一些惊人的运动在路上。 开始清晨群众集中的路口附近的不明身份的人士，部分阻断了交通。 他们明显紧张，但他们的表现是坚定的，明确他们为了稳住了阵脚。 他们一直有近2个小时，当我到达相机。 [...]

外国人享有在中国感叹的事情之一是建筑遗产的破坏。 这是可以理解的，现代中国的文物破坏的可怕纪录，今天有2000多年历史的城市，它是很难找到任何痕迹的老建筑。 但糟糕的是，您可以[...]

Today was a pretty stressful day in the office, but in between meetings I was able to join a lively discussion on the Fool's Mountain about the latest Dalai incident. To wit, the French President said he will meet the DL in Poland during a ceremony in honour of Lech Walesa. China immediately threatened EU [...]

I love the way Xinhua refers to the People's Daily as a “mouthpiece newspaper”, or “the mouthpiece of the ruling party”. For example, in this otherwise boring article that I just read. Recommended if you need to doze off for a quick siesta. I find all this mouthpiece thing funny in 3 different ways, which [...]

Last 10th December, a group of Chinese human right activists published a document called Chrter 08, requiring political reform in the PRC. This document has had surprisingly little impact in the Western media/blogging scene. There is no telling right now how influential this document is going to be looking into potentially conflictive 2009. In any [...]

Barely two weeks after the publication of the Chrter 08, it has already become old news, lost in the indifference of Western media (with notable exceptions), and erased in China by the cold intervention of the censors. I want to examine here the importance of this document and give some more thought to it and [...]

As I was answering to a comment on the Chrter 08 post, I felt a sudden urge to find the original context for one of my favourite quotes, which stands on Instructions as a principle of this blog. That is how I found again this beautiful passage which I can't resist copying here, although I [...]

I got a bit excited last night with my new VPN connection. For a few hours I thought I'd found Democracy in a Box, neatly packaged in a 40$ yearly subscription. I have been since exploring new horizons. Today, second day using VPN I've had 2 surprises, one good and one bad: The good one [...]

When I started my article about the Chrter 08 last month I couldn't help wondering if it was well worth the effort. 最会讲英语的博客和媒体一直很安静的这个问题，在中国似乎没有人知道这件事。 Two weeks after the Charter's publication, I thought [...]

You will excuse me for writing two serious posts in a row. It's been ages we don't do anything on the Crisis, and these days there's been a series of articles on the subject that I couldn't just let pass. Two of them have to do with the growth projections for 2009. 打哈欠。 We've been [...]

Last Sunday I did a post on internet censorship in China where I mixed in various different ideas and I'm afraid the final result regarding Search Engine Censorship didn't come out as clear as I would have liked. I think it is an important subject, so here are the complete results: We will be looking [...]

For those who are following the developments around Chrter 08: I have discovered a website containing the full original Chinese Charter (+ translations) that is still not blocked by the censors. It is also open to comments, apparently not manipulated: https://knol.google.com/k/-/-/3jhi1zdzvxj3f/9 Thanks to heroic advocate of freedom of speech David Ferguson who, by introducing himself [...]

We are at the beginning of a historic week, and I just can't not write about Obama's inauguration. This blog is also about changing the World, and there is a chance that this Tuesday will be one of those days that changes everything. Call me a dreamer, but I want to believe that this new [...]

The guests just left, what a night! The tense atmosphere of a final match in my Shanghai apartment; high expectations and a sense of History. Friends, all of different nationalities, sharing my wine and watching the first speech of President Obama. The silence during the 18 minutes was complete. Is it only me, or the [...]

I don't usually do direct accusations on this site, because I know better than searching conflict, and I understand nobody is perfect and we all make mistakes. But this one I cannot let pass, it is too low and too gratuitous. It is sad: why does it have to be China who tells the first [...]

Since I started posting about censorship I've noticed that the basics of the system are not clearly understood by many readers outside China. This post is to classify and explain the system in the most simple way possible. It is largely drawn from my own experience as a user in China and from the studies [...]

I just came across this picture on Hecaitou's Blog. Brilliant: I hate spoiling jokes, so those that can speak a bit of Chinese should figure it out by themselves. For those who don't speak Chinese, see after the fold. SOLUTION: By now you should have noticed that the large Mao portrait is missing on the [...]

The AFP dispatch says it all: Seventy-four workers were confirmed dead and dozens trapped underground after a gas blast early on Sunday at a colliery in northern China, the worst accident to hit the nation's mines in over 14 months. There is something very wrong with these news. The paragraph should end with “the worst [...]

There was some buzz last week on the Chinese internet about this supposedly new concept of Online Democracy. The excitement started with the weird “elude the cat” story, and then continued when Premier Wen JiaBao chatted online with “internet friends” . David Bandurski of the China Media Project, who has been watching these things for [...]

I am going to spice up my blog by providing some first hand opinion on my weekly tour of the Sinosphere. These are mostly comments that I've done previously in other forums and I collect here. I will try to do this every week, subject to the rate at which my brain can churn out [...]

NATIONAL PEOPLE'S CONGRESS – Let's admit it. We've been watching closely the NPC, we read all the material available and we have written about it. And yet, this year again, we have no clue what the NPC is for. According to their own website, the NPC has legislative functions, so we tend to compare it [...]

This discussion on China Geeks caught my eye, mostly because it is one of the few that has managed to engage the real Chinese blogosphere to interact with us foreign China blogs. And no less than hecaitou, a respected blogger in both the Chinese and Western communities. Unfortunately, the results are rather discouraging. It all [...]

Have you been watching Xinjiang TV these days? I am a fan. It's the new Love TV, a 24-7 concentrate of all the corniest efforts by the Chinese official media to promote harmony after the events of 5th July. Smiling kids, flowery dances, long meetings of interethnic neighbour associations discussing love and togetherness. Best served [...]

I was not there and I do not know more than what is in the press. But in the light of the available information, I think it's worth it to have another look at the events, and see what we make of it. Refer to the NYT diagram linked on the illustration, this paper is [...]

政府的基本目的之一是为了确保公民的安全，从这个角度来看，中国政府已在乌鲁木齐失败壮观。 首先，它也买不起足够的保护，在7月5日晚上的汉族受害者。 Some wrong decisions were most likely [...]

Following last week's posts about Xinjiang conflict, I see this AFP dispatch: China promotes Xinjiang armed police chief. Mr. Dai, the man at the top of the armed police has been promoted. Which means that the first of the failures I noted in the last post (ie failed to protect the citizens on 5th July) [...]

Many blogs have written about this already, but I still want to do my own post for Xu Zhiyong, who was arrested 3 weeks ago. I have no new information to offer here – info will be forthcoming only when the police decides it – but if you are reading this please do not let [...]

One more from the fantastic world of China mobile. These last weeks I have encountered what has to be the weirdest form of political activism ever tried in China. It has happened twice, each time on a Sunday afternoon. It comes in the form of a phone call from an inexistent number. A very professional recording, [...]

The discussion about racism in China keeps coming back every once in a while, and each time it arouses the strongest passions. This is a post I've been wanting to do for some time, following the interesting comments we had in March, and as a conclusion to the Xinjiang series. The story that sparked the [...]

I am finding it difficult to concentrate on my work with a band of spidermen in overalls hanging outside the window. It is tower rinsing day today, like every year, and again I find myself paralyzed by panic. I know, it is a common sight in a vertical metropolis like Shanghai. The problem is, through [...]

当我预定飞往日本的航班我的最后一分钟，我感到惊喜，我有一个非常合理的价格为10月1日国庆日。 When I went to Pudong airport I understood why: the streets were empty in Shanghai, nobody flew at that time because they were all at home with the eyes glued [...]

现在，我是在一个自由的互联网国家，我的机会来看看CDT的网站，我发现这个有趣的问题，从人贾兹拉：如果失去了毛，会发生什么？ 我不是在对反事实历史的原则，它可以是有用的在许多情况下，[...]

我已经意识到最近，由于在我的训练方法的某些不平衡，我的中文阅读能力可能会跑在前面，我的发言，我已经被迫采取严厉的纠正措施。 在风险变成一个SM的博客，我要今天发言可怕的忏悔[...]

因此，奥巴马是在中国，即使他是不是我的总统，他仍然是我最喜欢的总统。 这里是我的第一手访问的分析。 最重要的新闻，令人惊讶了注意，所有观察员的是，奥巴马想成为欧洲在中国广西巴马。 这是我读新的拼写[...]

A.加尔布雷思的“中国经济评论，不要错过这个故事。 在中国的反应，病毒长时间的辩论，这是最合理的意见，我已经看到了在很长一段时间，也是最好的通知。 故事使我想起我的朋友，在西班牙的医生回来，告诉我，当我[...]

我上ESWN看到本韩寒的“时代”周刊采访时，因为我已经写了关于他之前，我认为这是值得评论。 这也是有趣的，因为它说明了东方与西方之间的郭怡对最近警告说可怕的误解。 这是，在我看来，关键段落：......尽管[...]

我刚刚收到一封电子邮件，提醒我这个有趣的中国传闻博客后。 在博客中，他说：温家宝：这家伙从来没有停止给我带来惊喜。 当他从政治退休后，他才真正开始了自己的公关公司。 “普通人”的东西是完美的处理。 唯一的乡亲有[...]

在本系列的前两个职位，我们看到，中国是世界的语言保持了一套完整独立的词汇根和非代表他们的语音脚本，我们可以称之为一个单独的词系统。 出于这个原因，我认为，中国可能是最困难的[...]

您可能听说过的的长期Laobaixing（老百姓），从字面上“百家姓”，中国的老百姓。 他们也被称为LBX的奉献给他们这个网站。 laobaixing是一个伟大的词，不仅因为其明显的词源，而且还因为它的内涵是相当不同，从我们的“老百姓”。 从什么[...]

圣诞快乐大家。 伤心圣诞节对于中国来说，我们都爱这个国家，相信在自由，尊严和真理的人。 整整一年前，在圣诞节那天，我发表了这对刘的“宪章”的职位。 我是主动的关键原因是多方面的：它包含的矛盾，这是反应而不是[...]

哥本哈根峰会激发了一些媒体的激烈辩论，大部分更相关，而不是气候变化的国际政治。 其次是较为温和的意见已被一些壮观的作品如“卫报”的马克·莱纳斯，像那些出现在单位“，由内而外，想了解的角色[...]

虎浮出水面。 新的十年已经在西方，在中国，我们是在没有人的土地，太阳能和农历新年之间的牛和老虎之间，再次。 它是时间回过头来看看我们所处的位置。 在世界政治中[...]

上海东方早报正在做一个很好的覆盖一年一度的全国人大，政协会议。 我喜欢今天的纸质版，它带有一个可爱的羊驼旁边的胡图和走的过道，从他们刚刚落成的政协男孩的夫妇。 它是为那些长的故事[...]

它看起来像查尔斯在新中国的鸿沟博客已经找到了新源，以振兴中国博客现场点击：辩论在中国对色情的打击。 虽然我通常不支持任何类型的检查，我不得不说我不关心的色情事业在中国。 [...]

声明：在对科学的兴趣，这篇文章包含色情材料。 如果你是未成年人及/或敏感的人，建议你不要向下滚动。 如果你不读中国，这是确定的。 这是在以前的系列后，我们结束了漫无边际的主要议题和延续[...]

有多少次，我们看到了中国论坛上讨论究竟什么是软实力？ 说白方的神秘力量，绝地利用国际政治中的所有参数，把自己的优势？ 中国多年来一直觊觎这个武器，并在寻求花费许多宝贵的资源，但所有[...]

韩寒被提名为时间的最有影响的人，并推动中国网民数以百万计，他很快被提升到一个可能的号码1。 xujun，Eberlein已经做了良好的分析形势，特别是恶心的方式，人民日报和“上海日报”正试图淡化和[...]

这里是韩寒昨日审查的更新，随着时间的提名，这可能是比它更重要的一见钟情出现一些额外的信息。 然后，如果你停留直到本章结束时，我们会穿上黄色的袜子，分析多一点，可怕的祸害[...]

这已经由历史学家香Zhenkuai的小片取下来，从“南方都市报”，但它已设法逃避审查其他一些网站上。 我喜欢香港批评中共王朝的统治，微妙的方式和凉爽的“L'国家花莲莫伊”中国渲染为“朕即国家”。 因为我没有时间，[...]

在2010年社会蓝皮书由中国社科院公布去年十二月，有一个非常有趣的一块隐藏在330页的社会经济分析。 下的标题是“人口问题，中国在2011年和2015年”应注意，本文中所包含的一些最新的和最消极的数据[...]

我只是了解到刘奖。 这是重要的新闻，这可能标志着开始在国际政治中的新发展。 当然，整个事情会更有效，如果诺贝尔不完全由去年的奖项一文不值。 但即使没有，它不能有任何积极的直接结果。 政府将[...]

我感到非常失望，这在北京的美国驻华大使的故事，所谓的“茉莉花”抗议活动的一部分，当我读到最后一个星期日。 这是为中国的民主支持者（又一次）非常糟糕的消息。 首先，让我们的是严重的。 的想法，大使不知道发生了什么事情，是一个[...]

所以很多事情都发生在中国境外，现在，我的角色已经发生了逆转，有奇怪的感觉，一旦我们所有的目光的目标，而不是围观。 感觉轻松，我注意到它有一个很大的影响，以及对中国电视。 荒谬的压迫后[...]

所以，我们再去。 这是这一年的时间时，美国国务院发表年度人权报告，其中包括中国作为一个主要的罪犯，中国迅速响应用自己的报告，专门向美国。 这个节目是似曾相识，但如果你有兴趣，你可以看到[...]

埃文奥斯诺斯有趣的文章，解释为什么艾巍巍事宜。 他给出了三个很好的理由，我们为什么不应该解雇艾未未案无关。 尽管恼人的音调（他似乎暗示外国人无视艾未未是“环球时报”的读者洗脑），它是公平地说，他的地址在[......]

上周我写了一篇文章，我对艾未未和其他持不同政见者的一些看法。 这吸引了意想不到的意见，它甚至启发，在西班牙，Zaichina对中国最好的博客播客。 所有的一切，它一直是一个长期而富有成效的交流，所以我要感谢[...]

我今天开始，留下了深刻的印象，在去年最让我对中国经济的书籍，“有中国特色的资本主义”我的检讨部分，由麻省理工学院教授黄亚生。 It is a book that clearly stands out from the recent China books, and it might be destined to become one of [...]

我第一次读到“中国地下”上星期五，在我的中国博客每天浏览。 I had never heard the name of Zachary Mexico before, but the review on China Beat made me feel curious, so after work I stopped by the Garden bookshop and got my copy. Only 24 hours later I had [...]

我有点不愿意读“中国神”。 I never had much of a taste for the mystical, and the rows of whiskered statues staring in the temples fail to arouse in me more than a cautious curiosity. But when I received the latest publications of Blacksmith, the promise of a book that “makes sense” [...]

Last night I went to the evening organized by Earnshaw to launch their two latest books: “I sailed with Chinese Pirates” and “Shanghai Story Walks”. I have been a fan of Earnshaw Books since they published the first of their series of reprints, Carl Crow's “Foreign Devils in the Flowery Kingdom“, my favourite China read [...]

这在四川出差，实在是充满了惊喜。 今天我们去参观的项目，一个巨大的工业园区，建成后这将是世界上最大的工厂生产十一个典型的中国宏伟的长江银行。 但出人意料的是，当我们去到镇[...]

我已经意识到最近，由于在我的训练方法的某些不平衡，我的中文阅读能力可能会跑在前面，我的发言，我已经被迫采取严厉的纠正措施。 在风险变成一个SM的博客，我要今天发言可怕的忏悔[...]

我已经离开了一会儿，因为我所有的假期时间已经由上海的两个有趣的故事，其中的一个电视连续剧，另一种新型吸收。 串行是WoJu，蜗牛的家，愚蠢地翻译成英文为的窄Dwellingness，或任何。 它已经红热在中国自[...]

我刚刚读完这本书蚁族（蚁族），所有在中国互联网上的地方。 我很好奇，为什么它成为这里这么热，而西方媒体报道，只是简单地。 我想我现在知道答案，但让我介绍一下这本书的第一稍后。 [...]

One of the things I learned this Summer is that, while I may leave on holidays to Europe, China doesn't really leave me anymore. More than just a country, it is a force of nature, the other face of mankind that is now part of my life. China is always there, and she is everywhere, [...]

这是我第一次在中国的短篇小说。 标题是“迷失东京”，它说明了糟糕的普通话发音的潜在后果。 If you don't read Chinese I left a little summary in comments, or else use G Translator to get the enhanced experience [1]. UPDATE: I have reposted this on Tianya to [...]