Tiananmen Square

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• Top 5 China events of the decade (for me)

  
  The Peking Duck — Authority: 415
  A week ago the Shanghaiist asked me if I’d prepare an end-of-year or end-of-decade list of what were for me the top 5 China-related event. Now that the post has been up on their site a few days, I’m reprinting it here for posterity. These are not necessarily the most important things that happened. The ...
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• Liu Xiaobo Gets 11 Year Sentence

  
  Socyberty — Authority: 558
  Veteran Chinese human rights activist Liu Xiaobo has been sentenced to 11 years on the charge of “inciting subversion of state power”. The sentence was issued on Christmas Day at Beijing’s No 1 Intermediate Court. Liu has already been detained since December 8th 2008 by the Chinese authorities for founding the ...
  4 days ago

• Merry Christmas... but not for this guy

  
  BEANIEVILLE - a day trading, swing trading and investing blog — Authority: 140
  BEIJING -- A Chinese court sentenced Liu Xiaobo, Chinas most prominent dissident, to 11 years in prison for criticizing the government, an unusually long sentence that rights activists say suggests other activists will also face harsh punishment. The Beijing No. 1 Intermediate Peoples Court announced Friday its ...
  5 days ago

• On December 19

  
  IntLawGrrls — Authority: 483
  On this day in ... ... 1984 (25 years ago today) , in Beijing, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Chinese Premier Zhao Ziyang signed the Joint Sino-British Declaration , which provided that Hong Kong would be returned to China in 1997, thus " end[ing] 155 years of British rule in the colony" and ...
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• Holy Contradictions / 1982 -- 32 years old

  
  Talking 37th Dream With Rainbow (rumors of peace) — Authority: 126
  As we watch through telescopes, our church of sky, land and sea fills with healing hands, human hearts and eyes that shed tears. (page 47, "In The Church Of The Holy Contradiction, We Look For Tears Through A Telescope") The gouache and watercolor painting I titled "Speaking Without Words About Holy Contradictions" ...
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• Sleeps at Beijing

  
  Alex @ here has what I know about — Authority: 132
  BEIJING SIHE COURTYARD HOTEL Treat yourself to a slice of authentic Chinese history with this unique courtyard inn, which is built upon an infrastructure dating back to nearly 400 years. Traditional furniture, and porcelain vases and crafts evoke the nostalgia of old-world Beijing – but lest you think this equates ...
  2 weeks ago

• China: prominent dissident faces subversion charges

  
  Index on Censorship — Authority: 588
  Police in China have recommended that prominent dissident Liu Xiaobo be formally charged with subversion. He has been held in jail for over a year without charges and previously served 20 months for his part in the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests. The author has been an outspoken critic of the Chinese government for ...
  3 weeks ago

• The atrocious taxi drivers of Beijing. Tiananmen Square? Never eard of it, guv

  
  News World — Authority: 139
  I normally like taxi drivers. Some of my best friends, etc. But Beijing is a new and terrible world.Driving a taxi here has never enjoyed a lot of cachet. Back in the 1980s, driving was itself considered an honourable profession; there was no such thing as a private car, and thus the only driving licences [...]
  3 weeks ago

• Zhao Ziyang’s Secret Memoirs

  
  Nasir Khan blog — Authority: 142
  Book’s editors on lifting a veil from Chinese politics By Katie Koch, BU Today , Dec 2, 2009 Bao Pu (left) and Adi Ignatius, editors of Prisoner of the State: The Secret Journal of Premier Zhao Ziyang , say the former leader’s memoir is the first to emerge from the highest ranks of China’s ...
  4 weeks ago

• Zhao Ziyang’s Secret Memoirs

  
  Dr Nasir Khan — Authority: 443
  Book’s editors on lifting a veil from Chinese politics By Katie Koch, BU Today , Dec 2, 2009 Bao Pu (left) and Adi Ignatius, editors of Prisoner of the State: The Secret Journal of Premier Zhao Ziyang , say the former leader’s memoir is the first to emerge from the highest ranks of China’s Communist ...
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• Columns

  
  AVCR8TEUR'S PHOTO BLOG & MORE — Authority: 120
  56 newly erected columns in Tiananmen Square marked the 60th anniversary founding of the Peoples Republic of China celebrated October 1st of this year. As you can see, the day I visited was quite overcast. Each of the 26 ton columns represents an ethnic group living in China and is said to symbolize their unity, ...
  4 weeks ago

• Spot the difference [via]

  
  Earthman, Come Home — Authority: 137
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• Visiting Beijing, China

  
  Social Media Marketing Strategy, Tactics, and Tools — Authority: 533
  Earlier this year I had the opportunity to spend a month traveling around China (including Tibet) with my good friend Brian.  I had a lot of stories, videos, and photos to share but I didn’t really have a good way to share them since this travel blog didn’t exist.  Now that I have my new travel blog I want to ...
  4 weeks ago

• Remembering Chinese scholar Yang Xianyi (1915 – 2009)

  
  dailyQi — Authority: 137
  At the early morning hour, 6:45AM, on November 23, 2009, renowned Chinese scholar, translator, and interpreter of Chinese and Western literature, Yang Xianyi (楊憲益) died in Beijing at the age of 94. During his lifetime, he and his wife, Gladys Margaret Tayler (戴乃迭), translated more than 60 Chinese ...
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• Socialism Flu Shots for Christmas

  
  Acton Institute PowerBlog — Authority: 522
  Got the socialism blues? Worried that a friend or maybe a teenage son or daughter may contract a nasty case of it? Marvin Olasky at World magazine recommends former Acton research fellow Jay Richards’ 2009 HarperOne book, Money Greed and God: Why Capitalism Is the Solution and not the Problem : Among the ...
  5 weeks ago

• Yang Xianyi obituary

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 985
  Distinguished translator of Chinese classics jailed during the Cultural Revolution When they came during the Cultural Revolution to take away Yang Xianyi, Chinas distinguished translator who has died aged 94, he had one regret – that he was hauled off to prison, accused of being a British spy, in his old slippers. ...
  5 weeks ago

• Boycott Bing, says the New York Times Columnist

  
  pluGGd.in — Authority: 488
  A major flaw has been found in Bing. Thanks to Nicholas D. Kristof, a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and columnist for the New York Times. Kristof accused Bing for censoring results in simplified Chinese language searches and asked to Boycott Bing in his column to web users. This is not the first time Bing is ...
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• Bing Accused of Censoring Simplified Chinese Language Searches

  
  Computer & Internet - computer-internet.marc8.com — Authority: 159
  The New York Times’ Nicholas Kristof is controversially asking web users to “ Boycott Bing “, claiming that Bing is c read more
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• Tiananmen Square protest leader put on trial (one day after Barack Obama departed from Beijing)

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  Zhou Yongjun, 42, faces a third prison term in China after being handed over to the mainland by the police in Hong Kong. Mr Zhou, who has lived in the United States since seeking political asylum in 1992, was arrested last September. His subsequent transfer to the authorities in China, who have accused him of ...
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