In lieu of posting anything original, today I point you in the direction of Hark, A Vagrant!, indisputably the best history-based webcomic on the interwebs. It is almost always funny, and although Kate Beaton rarely writes comics on Chinese history, her comic on Wu Zetian is pretty great:
Yes, in internet years, this borders on prehistoric. [...]
Wu Zetian Comics
Feb 9th, 2010
Ai Weiwei on Confucius: “Disgusting”
Jan 20th, 2010
Chinese artist, activist, and dissident Ai Weiwei? He’s not a big fan of Confucius, apparently. From his Twitter:
From whatever angle you look at it, Confucius is disgusting.
He followed that with the rather vulgar:
I don’t understand Confucius and Confucianism, do I also not understand your mother’s c**t?
Lest one be confused and think he’s reacting to this [...]
A Little Good News
Jan 19th, 2010
Things have been depressing for China watchers as of late. Increased censorship, Google’s threat to leave, Liu Xiaobo’s sentencing, Gao Zhisheng’s probable execution…it’s been a rough month. But you’ll be happy to know that a few encouraging things have happened!
First of all, the recent reports that “sexting” would be banned appear to have been erroneous. [...]
“How Chinese Internet Policy is Like Qing Isolationism”
Jan 15th, 2010
Via Amoiist’s Twitter, a comparison of modern Chinese internet policy with Qing dynasty isolationism from IfLonely (a blog whose motto is “If we want to keep living, we must understand the internet a little”). Anyway, here is our translation of their comparison table.
Translation
A Comparison…
Qing Dynasty Closed-Door Policy
Modern Internet Censorship Policy
Goal
Control the dissemination of religion, [...]
Ai Weiwei, Lu Xun, and the Hope of Hopelessness
Dec 23rd, 2009
This China Digital Times post has been sitting open in my browser for several days now. If you’re stuck behind the GFW, it’s a question and answer Chinese artist and social commentator Ai Weiwei did with a private Chinese BBS forum, full of social questions and snappy answers. It’s worth a read, but one question [...]
Another Kind of Mao Worship
Oct 12th, 2009
The Cultural Revolution may be over, but Mao worship is alive and well in some places — well, at least in one place. Mao Zedong’s only grandson, Mao Xinyu, is doing what he can to keep the flame alive.
Of all the blogs we read here at ChinaGeeks, Mao Xinyu’s is probably the worst. We added [...]
Guest Post: On the Development of Chinese Government
Aug 27th, 2009
The following is a guest post.
Some Thoughts on the Development of Chinese Government
By Colin Glassey – August 21, 2009
One element of Chinese government which has been poorly presented in English is the way the Chinese system of Imperial government can be viewed as a system that evolved – slowly and fitfully – over 2,000 years. [...]
The New York Times Enrages Netizens
Jul 27th, 2009
The Anti-CNN folks are up in arms again, so much so that their webmaster has written a news story about it in English. This time, the target of their displeasure is the New York Times, who apparently edited photo captions for photos of the riots in Xinjiang. The photos came with captions from the Associated Press, Reuters, and the Agence France Presse, but Anti-CNN has discovered that the Times edited those captions, in some cases giving the photos improper context and in other cases making them downright wrong.
In Memory
Jun 3rd, 2009
WARNING: Some of these images are extremely graphic.
Words will come, perhaps later in the day. But for a moment, at least, let’s pause and remember those who died on this day twenty years ago. Soldiers and students, workers and police officers: for a moment today — before we move on to the shouting and the [...]
At that time, everyone was fired up and wanted to be heroes. It seemed like we had reached a stage in history where we were so close to having the China that we wanted, all we had to do was put in a little hard work and a beautiful country would emerge. Of course, life is never that simple.
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