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With the Beijing Olympics, China was supposed to be revealing the extent of its soft power, supposed to reveal the “mysterious” country that is transforming itself into a world economic power in rapid fashion. To do so, they promised certain things: Open access for the press, curbing civil rights abuses, allowing protesters, and a variety of other things Western nations take for granted.

When I was studying for my Masters in Reading and Language Arts I took a fascination in Picture Books not only because I knew that someday I would be a mother but also because I loved using them in my middle school classroom. I used Rose Blanche when we read Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, and The Other Side when we read Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry .

We should have known. When the Chinese were awarded the Olympics, I feared that China, instead of loosening up on their power for 2 weeks, would only tighten it. An international event only lends more pressure to do everything right, to make the best appearance to an international audience.

While everyone is busy talking about the gruesome dislocation of weightlifter Janos Baranyai’s elbow, I have yet to hear anyone take note of how the Chinese already had a group of “blockers” ready to cover up any “unpleasant” or “offensive” incidences.

Handbook of Online China View SlideShare presentation (tags: web trend trends powerpoint olympics) Excellent consolidation of data by TrendsSpotting, on the dynamics of the Internet in China published in a rather timely manner (on 8 August 2008, no less).

He was one of the Lost Boys of Sudan.   A young lad attempting to escape a violent conscription into an even more violent Sudanese militia, he trekked across the desert to reach a refugee camp in another country. Somewhere along the line, he went from refugee to upstate New York high school track star to college track star to US Olympian.

A Fiasco of Olympic Proportions. (No China for me. Come fall, I’ll just have to write about Chinese food in Thailand instead.)

Bush in China Thursday, August 7, 2008 The Beijing Olympics have been a human rights disaster in China. There has been a nationwide crackdown on dissidents and a marked uptick in surveillance and propaganda. Ellen Bork from Freedom House writes about it today in the Wall Street Journal.

Title: "A Cathedral to High Speed Rail."   Major International Transport Hub Censors Political Websites While media accuses China of blacklisting sensitive information, censorship is taking place right here at home Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet Monday, August 4, 2008 While establishment... ...

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