Here’s a post from Vicky Y, who reproduces a ‘poem’ apparently written by Professor Emeritus of Physics University at Buffalo State University of New York, Duo-Liang Lin. (It has appeared around the web but I can find no trace of it on the Washington Post site, where it is alleged to have first been published) Regardless of its …

All the Chinese nationalists out there must just be pining for the day, absolutely aching with anticipation. Don’t worry. It’s coming soon. April 28, in fact. Yes, that is the day when the Holy Olympic Torch will arrive in….North Korea. No worries about protests there! China’s good friend Kim Jong Il and his vicious state …

Couldn’t resist posting this, a sign in the back of a taxi in Qingdao city in the coastal province of Shandong. It refers of course to the infamous sign that supposedly was posted during the 20s and 30s in a park in one of the foreign-administered areas of Shanghai that read: “No dogs or Chinese allowed” (狗與華人不得入內). As …

Rick Baum, a professor of political science at UCLA and one of America’s more knowledgeable China scholars, has apparently had enough of the preposterous US Presidential campaign—in this case, specifically, Hillary Clinton’s China fantasies. I hadn’t known Baum—who runs an informative on line forum for China hands called …

Wow, this film is everything that the Anna May Wong film (which I wrote about here) was not. San Francisco director Arthur Dong’s documentary Hollywood Chinese, which won the Golden Horse Award (the Chinese equivalent of the Oscars) in December, chronicles the contributions Chinese-Americans have …

Earlier this week the following message spread like wildfire via SMS in China. Some of China’s anger about the chaos the Torch relay is creating isn’t limited to the internet. It will be interesting to see how effective this boycott of Carrefour, the giant French retailer with mega stores all over China, will be.
Here is the SMS …

Just a friendly reminder to please keep comment within the bounds of civility. That means no swearing, racism, threats or threatening language. Obviously, we like to keep the debate as wide open as possible but there are limits, most of them plain common sense. Invective isn’t debate and insults don’t make arguments. These are heated …

Lawyers for jailed dissident Hu Jia (see many past references, most recently this on his sentence) went in on Monday to try and see their client and ask whether he wanted to appeal the three and a half year prison sentence he received April 2nd for inciting subversion of state power. But when they got there, the detention center told the …

More on the “goons and thugs” remarks by CNN commentator Jack Cafferty. He gave a rambling, semi-coherent populist rant preceding the remark (see here for a transcript), which included something about exporting jobs to a Shangri-la-ish place where workers are paid ‘a dollar a month.’ Anyway, for the record, on April 14, on the same …

So the Dalai Lama is in the U.S. and is going to meet US President George W. Bush’s special envoy, Undersecretary of State Paula Dobriansky. The timing is, to put it mildly, unfortunate. There’s already so much sound and fury out there that it’s hard to think constructively. Beijing is already steaming mad and no doubt the internet will …

I attended the just completed weekend conference in Boao, at a nice, tropical waterfront resort here on Hainan Island. Boao is China’s Davos—or wishes to be, anyway—and this year President Hu Jintao attended, along with (among others) the Presidents or Prime Ministers from Sweden, Mongolia, Australia, Sri Lanka, Kazakhstan, Tonga …

Among other attractions (it is famous all over China for its white jade), Hetian, a small city in remote Xinjiang province, also makes carpets. I visited the factory where the workers get about 15 renminbi (about two dollars and change) an hour. It takes them about two months to make a medium-sized carpet. It’s hard, eye destroying (see …

……, somewhat belated, for a story on Olympics and terror by my colleague Lin Yang here.