Was it something I said? (or, supernaut blocked in China)

I noticed a few weeks ago that traffic from China was low — single digits low instead of being in …

Liu Xiaobo 刘晓波

Congratulations to Liu Xiaobo for being awarded the Nobel Peace prize. I’ve been keeping up with my reading on this …

Global Voices Summit – Budapest

Some of my favourite and also most inspiring bloggers, writers, wonderful computer and internet people are all in Budapest for …

Reading: Nasrin Alavi – We Are Iran: The Persian Blogs

nasrin alavi – we are iran

mediocrity

Due to the content of my Ignition 7 – Gender Studies performance, all the people i can remember sleeping with…, …

吴皓 hao wu released

Read all about it on Free Hao Wu. China: Wu Hao released Filed under: About Hao Wu, News, Nina’s blog …

we hate art and like nothing interesting

Beijing’s Dashanzi Art District which I always think of as embodying contemporary Chinese art as so much of it comes …

释放吴皓 free hao wu

I started reading Feng 37 a few weeks ago for his endless translations of contemporary Chinese poetry, and being another …

nothing left to do but vandalise shit

For a while I go so into playing Halo, and I mean so into it in the end I had …

satanically un-islamic black metal fatwa

Superstitious religious imbecility coupled with public displays of mental feebleness and decrepitude are almost universally guaranteed to make for high-class …

how to blog anonymously

Reporters sans Frontières have just released a booklet Handbook for Bloggers and Cyber-Dissidents, in several languages including Chinese. Alot of …

antonioni in china

Having made some of the most striking films of the new wave in L’Avventura, then setting The Yardbirds on fire …

hackers reveal china’s forbidden words

Here’s why hackers are are an invaluable part of the internet. China Digital News has an amazing piece on what …

southern metropolis daily

What happened in Guangzhou when a graphic design student got arrested by the police for not having a temporary residence …

stainless steel mouse

I’d heard about the stainless steel mouse for a while now, but didn’t know any details beyond she’s been arrested …

internet under surveillance

Reporters Sans Frontiers recently released their report Internet Under Surveillance, which includes a country-by-country analysis of “Obstacles to the free …

Hearts of Iron and Ken Park

The story of Hearts of Iron and China’s irony-free Ministry of Culture has been small print for a couple of …

江湖 Jianghu banned

Eric Tsang has had 江湖 Jianghu banned in China, the triad movie he hoped would reinvent the genre. Tsang chose …

Reporters Sans Frontiers China Annual Report 2004

Reporters Sans Frontiers China Annual Report 2004 Reporters Sans Frontiers have released their Annual Report on China. The major event …

World Press Freedom Day – not in China

Today is World Press Freedom Day, which is not a celebration, more of a remembering those killed, tortured, imprisoned, and …

Paranoia alive and well

The 新青年学会 Xin Qingnian Xuehui – New Youth Study Group formed in Beijing in 2000. Really no more than a …

PRC News China Briefing: 2004-04-14

Winds of Change.NET Regional Briefings run regular updates on news around the world. This update appeared there on April 14, …

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