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Chinalyst has opened its China Blog Awards 2008. Justrecently isn’t competing but has voted for mylaowai.com.
This is meant to be sort of a recommendation to do likewise, so I should say why. I’ll give you my reasons in a Chinese order - I’ll start with more trivial reasons and finish with my most important reason.
a) [...]

In a post of November 28, Zeng Jinyan takes the opportunity of Thanksgiving Day to thank the readers of her blog for reading, even though most posts’ contents are painful. She also thanks the commenters, no matter if they offer support or speak out against her posts. The time readers take to write and react encourages her [...]

JR: Hermit the Taoist Dragonfly is the authoritative expert on issues like Buddhism, Falun Gong, India, imperialism, the righteousness of the Chinese Communist Party, science, Taiwan, Taoism, Tibet, and the calamitous way Western media steer otherwise happy, nice and peaceful people into terrorist madness. Thank you very much for bestowing this opportunity for an interview [...]

The 2008 edition of the annual China Blog Awards is about to kick off over at The Chinalyst, so if you’ve got yourself a China-focused blog, be sure to get your blog signed up and in the running.
As with last year’s competition, voting is done in a straight up “Digg-like” voting style, with everyone being [...]
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The following is a blog entry from zengjinyan.org of today. Ms Zeng’s post title is I saw Hu Jia on Friday.
Last week, the State Security Police came to talk, and I was rather anxious, and as I felt strained and tired, I didn’t want to talk too much.
Afterwards, the State Security went to Hu Jia’s parents [...]

For a few months now I’ve wanted to change the look of this site, but never seem to have the time to do it. So, in an effort to at least get the site partly doing what I want it…
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Jigme Langjia or Jinme Langjia (晋美朗嘉) isn’t world-famous. Actually, noone seems to know who he is. But his name isn’t unknown when Tibet is the topic. Jigme Langjia is apparently a Tibetan living in Beijing, sometimes referred to as an analyst or scholar by websites like Boxun. On April 12, Xinhuanet’s reference materials section published some views by a [...]

Up to 2,000 people attacked the local Communist Party headquarters in Longnan City, Gansu Province (甘肃省, 陇南市), northwest China in protest over a land dispute, according to the HK Standard of November 18, quoting Chinese state media. About 30 people protesting the eviction plans gathered at the party headquarters Monday morning but the crowd swelled to [...]

Entitled “Reflections Of A Bridge Blogger”, Roland Soong’s CNBloggercon speech wonderfully sums up the transition that’s happened, largely due to the Internet, in China over the past five years that he’s been writing EastSouthWestNorth. Unfortunately, due to a family emergency, attendees at the 2008 China Blogger Convention in Guangzhou last weekend were unable to hear [...]
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C.A. Yeung wrote another - and probably more accurate - translation of Zeng Jinyan’s blog entry of November 4. It is certainly more comprehensive than mine and includes the status of the letter exchange between Ms Zeng and Mr Hu. It is a good experience for me, still learning the Chinese language, to compare the differences [...]