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justrecently — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 08:26:00 -0600

- Fenqings exercising their freedom of speech? »
- Dear Fenqings »
- A Modern Atlas of Hurt Feelings »
There is no obligation to comment here instead on the threads above. I’ll keep the threads of the three a/m posts open, too. If commenters think that they can make their point here on this Unified Thread just [...]

Justrecently’s Golden Commenting Rules

justrecently — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 04:52:00 -0600

Please do not refer to each other as Fifty-Cent-Partisans, ****-*****, ****, ********, ****, or ******** without good evidence. In case of good evidence, please try to replace words like ****-*****, ****, *********, ****, or ******** with less ugly terms unless ****-*****, ****, ********, ****, or ******** is essential for making your point. JR believes in [...]

Fenqings Exercising their Freedom of Speech?

justrecently — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 03:56:00 -0600

Related Justrecently Story: Dear Fenqings
My good friend Taide brought an article to my attention: “Can Fenqing or Angry Youths Think for Themselves?”
The Can Fenqing or Angry Youths Think for Themselves article (in the following: angry article or angry author) refers to an earlier article by Jamil Anderlini in the Financial Times.
I have no doubt that [...]

A Linguistic Analysis of the “Go China” Recital

justrecently — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 02:39:00 -0600

The Tuluotuo Blog published a linguistic analysis of the “Go China 2009″ (or zhongguo jia you, “2009, 中国加油!”) recital on December 30. While an encounter with the video can be scary, it is also a good piece of work in terms of rhythms and probably better than many so-called “new poems”, says the blogger - and while [...]

Watching China Grow

justrecently — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 08:49:00 -0600

The Western China-related blogosphere sometimes seems to be split down the middle - pandahuggers and pandabashers. (Actually, I think it is a bit unfair to equate the Pandas and China in its current shape. Imaginative Chinese people make take offense from that because they think of themselves as self-strenghtening and rising while Pandas are kind of [...]

Six Officials lose their Posts after Nap

justrecently — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 12:30:00 -0600

Six local officials in Hengyang City ((衡阳市), Hunan Province (湖南) will lose their party and government posts after falling asleep during a convention commemorating 30 years of Reforms and Opening Up on December 18 - according to China Radio International, photos there. Municipal secretary Zhang Wenxiong (张文雄) had demanded serious consequences after pictures of the sleeping [...]

Hu Jia’s family gets (incomplete) Medical Examination Report

justrecently — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 10:01:00 -0600

After many twists and turns, they have got a copy of Hu Jia’s medical examination results, Zeng Jinyan writes in her blog today. However, the copy doesn’t contain results concerning HBV-DNA, and the prison staff say that when they made the copy, the report didn’t include the enclosures. A change in Hu Jia’s medication seems [...]

“The East is Red”

justrecently — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 10:10:00 -0600

… a Christmas story inspired by Edgar Snow’s Red Star over China Gospel

The East is Red

Starring:

- Nanny
- Hermit
- Chinacansayno
- Mao Tse-Tung
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A JR production, to start on December 25, if it passes censorship.

Hermit: How China lends a Helping Hand

justrecently — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 14:35:00 -0600

Hello Children,
here is another patriotic piece which warms my heart.
“We Chinese are just too good and honest, too honest to other people. China was bulied by other countries all the time, but we never bully other people for our own dignity but are still criticized by the values of others. *Sigh* We are just too [...]

How Real (and effective) is the Fifty-Cent-Party?

justrecently — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 06:25:00 -0600

I hadn’t seen anything that might count as real evidence before. (Maybe that is because I didn’t pay much attention to the theory anyway.) But Michael Bristow of the BBC quoted an official paper four days ago, and that looks somewhat more substantial. According to Bristow’s article, local authorities started hiring commenters some years ago [...]