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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 February 1972, Dr Vitaly A. Rubin, a Senior Research Fellow in Chinese Studies at Moscow’s Institute of Oriental Studies, applied for an exit visa to emigrate to Israel. Rubin was Jewish, educated in the orthodox tradition of his people. Following his visa application, he was pressured into resigning his position at the Institute, his [...]

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 Economist has collected predictions for the year ahead - articles and comments about expected developments around the world.
James Miles of the Economist writes about China after the Olympics. Kevin Rudd believes that medium-sized countries like Australia can lead by example on issues such as financial stability, climate change, and development.
We may also pick one [...]

Idealism, debate and blogging
speaker: Ping Ke 平客 buchimifan
Has anybody used anonymous names to make posts that support yourself? I think many people have.
I have had many big arguments with people online. One case was about the Olympics. I didn’t like the opening ceremony. Of course, the show was great, but it was such a waste [...]

The following is a translation of an open letter by 49 - or 65 - China scientists *), publicists and politicians in Germany. They refer to an initial open letter written by Chinese dissidents, by German authors et al which is the topic in my post of November 14.
Then follows a link to and a quote from a [...]