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July 2005



Guess who's coming to Dinner: China's revolutionary sons greet 'Africa's Chairman Mao'

Friday, 29 July 2005 11:07 P GMT+09
China has a proud and unabashed reputation of dealing with countries and regimes that are considered pariahs by the international community, a reputation that it is continuing as its leader meet with Zimbabwe's President Mugabe.

It's not rural unrest, its anarchy: The Qianjin Riots, care of Benjamin Kang Lim.

Wednesday, 27 July 2005 10:07 P GMT+09
The serious rural unrest that China does not officially have apparently flared up again late last week, engulfing the village of Qianjin, Tongliao city, as 2000 farmers clashed with security forces after local authorities seized farmland to build a h

Written in the cards: Has the future tone of Sino-Japanese relations just been set

Sunday, 24 July 2005 12:22 A GMT+09
Often, there is little that say more about a country's attitude to a situation that the cut of the man that it sends to deal with it, and if speculation is to be believed, Tokyo's next 'man in Beijing' is set to provide a broad picture on the way tha

Who not to Blog with ... If you want to be read in China

Sunday, 17 July 2005 7:12 P GMT+09
According to the esteemed Miss MacKinnon of Rconversation, bloggers who desire to reach a Chinese audience should avoid the following blog service providers, all of which have now apparently been blocked by the Chinese government.http://egoweblog.com

Believing in Coincidences: Has Beijing's propaganda's ministry just pushed the boat out?

Thursday, 14 July 2005 10:45 P GMT+09
One of the immutable laws of life is that something that is lost can often be found again, and while this can be a very good when the item that has been lost is something useful like a set of car key, it is not quite so good when said lost item is an

Mao's lookalike dies, and gets a propaganda nip and tuck

Monday, 11 July 2005 6:47 P GMT+09
China's film industry is in official morning this month with the announcement of the death of actor Gu Yue, China's best know chairman Mao lookalike. According to state media, Gu died on Saturday 2, July. The cause of death was recorded as being an 

The Rabbit Hole: What not to say in China, part 3

Thursday, 7 July 2005 6:09 P GMT+09
Once, a wise man, who will automatically be Chinese if you ask a Chinese person, but who I’m going to say was Japanese just to annoy my Chinese colleagues, laid forth these words of wisdom “All good things must come to an end”, and today marks

Tanabata: Japan

Thursday, 7 July 2005 9:00 A GMT+09
Tanabata (七夕) Tanabate (Star) festival: Japan, Hiratsuka

Engagement, or a Betrayal of Principles?: Is Britain Lending legitimacy to Beijing?

Monday, 4 July 2005 8:08 P GMT+09
Though Britain Government has, in recent years, become well know for maintaining questionable alliances, its choice of bedfellows has is again hit the headlines with the announcement that the Blair administration has extend a cordial invitation to Pr

Know your Enemy: Japan’s most controversial textbook available online

Saturday, 2 July 2005 8:01 P GMT+09
For interested Readers, the full Tsukurukai text from the Japanese society for History Textbook Reform is now available for download in Chinese and Korea. Love it, hate it, but read it before deciding,

We don’t teach it, so you can’t: State censorship raises some nasty questions for China’s international schools

Friday, 1 July 2005 4:50 P GMT+09
While complaints over textbooks are nothing new in the Sino-Japanese relationship, a new argument with potentially wide reaching implications has arisen with the announcement that Beijing intercepted and seized a shipment of Japanese textbooks.