I have added terms in English, simplified Chinese and traditional Chinese to the news tracker, in order to get readily available news and to find the most relevant dialogue. Some of these terms I've pulled directly from words that are seen as threatening to the stability of the Chinese government. I've also selected rss feeds from independent Chinese-language and/or bilingual news sources. To see the wikipedia article on blocked words behind the Chinese firewall, follow this link: http://en... Read Full Story
/16/2008 0:41 GMT Beijing people, or Beijingren (北京人) are known throughout the Mainland as talkers, among other things. The stereotype of the Beijing native doesn't differ far from that of the New Yorker. Perhaps because of long hours and the most intense grid-lock I've ever encountered, taxi drivers often are these "talkers", passing the time by chatting on a diverse set of topics with their passengers. Thus, in the last two and half years, some of the deepest conversations I've ever had... Read Full Story
"Not You! You!!!" by Uri Avnery 05/04/08 "Hey! Take your hands off me! Not you! You!!!" - the voice of a young woman in the darkened cinema, an old joke. "Hey! Take your hands off Tibet!" the international chorus is crying out, "But not from Chechnya! Not from the Basque homeland! And certainly not from Palestine!" And that is not a joke. LIKE EVERYBODY else, I support the right of the Tibetan people to independence, or at least autonomy. Like everybody else, I condemn the actions... Read Full Story
In the recent weeks, in the face of wide-scale pro-Independence demonstrations throughout the Tibetan Autonomous region (TAR) and other ethnically Tibetan areas of the China Mainland, the international public and even governments, have begun to discuss the possibilties of what it might mean to boycott the Olympics. Read Full Story
Yu Zhou, musician-artist died at the hands of the CCP on February 6, 2008, after eleven days detainment in prison. He was the drummer-singer of Villagers in a Valley, a pop-folk group in Beijing. The music video above is for their popular song "我的家“ (My Home), the lyrics of which are simply: This is my home a little place he found for me the entire place is filled with plants everything is green! 中文（Chinese)： 我的家 是他圈起的一块小地方 到处都是青草 全部是绿的! CCP officials claimed he died of a hungry... Read Full Story
In the wake of the surprisingly strong international outcry against the recent local demonstrations and brutal government repressions in Tibet, it seems increasingly important to me that the international community make efforts to greater understand the complexity of the terrorities that make up what is understood as China. The historical political and cultural distinctions in the entire Northwest of China, known as the Xinjiang Uigher Autonomous region to the Chinese government and East... Read Full Story
For my digital media activism class, students were paired off into groups to begin learning how to use tagging technology online. This was our assignment: "Assignment: Use del.icio.us for tagging web sites.. Tag 30 items: 15 of your own choice, related either to course readings or to your Zimbio page. Try to use it as a way to track items as they come up in the course of the project or to issues that are related to the readings or that you think would be of general interest." I worked... Read Full Story
Beijing people, or Beijingren (北京人) are known throughout the Mainland as talkers, among other things. The stereotype of the Beijing native doesn't differ far from that of the New Yorker. Perhaps because of long hours and the most intense grid-lock I've ever encountered, taxi drivers often are these "talkers", passing the time by chatting on a diverse set of topics with their passengers. Thus, in the last two and half years, some of the deepest conversations I've ever had, about politics... Read Full Story
In the wake of the surprisingly strong international outcry against the recent local demonstrations and brutal government repressions in Tibet, it seems increasingly important to me that the international community make efforts to greater understand the complexity of the terrorities that make up what is understood as China. The historical political and cultural distinctions in the entire Northwest of China, known as the Xinjiang Uigher Autonomous region to the Chinese government and East... Read Full Story
