How real the situation isFrom tourist bloggers Steve and Ulrike: a tense square in Lhasa, Tibet, with story, photos, and a video of the man in black. How to blog dirty: Handbook for bloggers and cyber-dissidents. You can get your blog out of China, but you can’t get China out of your blog: a testimony to a US House Committee in 2006. First they came for the classics department… Google and Yahoo unsearching a professor. What does it sound like on top of Tibet? Field recordings ascending Cho Oyu. And to be caught on a mountain on September 11th: “The Chinese army already have closed the border behind us.” The Chinese airlines finally get 9-11-ized: no more liquids on planes, and doubts about a terror plot’s undoing. ”On the plus side, he did have a fine hand for calligraphy,” so was Chairman Mao 70% nice and 30% mean? Filed In Week In Review // On Mar 13, 2008 //China tells foreign artists to behave after Bjork’s Tibet callAfter Bjork chants “Tibet” in a Shanghai concert, vice culture minister Zhou Heping says “It is hoped that these artists can understand Chinese laws and the feelings of the Chinese people and not do things against our laws or feelings.” [Read] By AFP // At Agence France-Presse // On March 12, 2008Filed In Articles // On Mar 12, 2008 // Under Feelings , TibetSmiling and noddingThe obituary that 93-year-old John Roderick deemed “worth dying for,” and a 2006 piece on being a China watcher during Mao’s purge. Terrain.org includes the first chapter of his last book, Minka: My Farmhouse in Japan, in its latest issue (a PDF file): “On the afternoon of Sunday December 7, 1941, I began to hate Japan and the Japanese, a nation and a race I hardly knew.” David Briscoe reviews it. The world’s best marathoner decides China is no place for marathons. Depending on whom you ask, Beijing is either making it easier or harder for journalists to cover the National People’s Congress. The Economist is there, translating Wen Jiabao’s “改革开放,” gaige kaifang, as a call to “liberate our thinking.” A blogger translates a story about Wen’s neighbors being liberated from their homes. And Danwei translates the foreign minister, Yang Jiechi, who says translation is the easiest thing in the world. Next thing, the ministry is throwing interference at the Dalai Lama: a video of spokesman Qin Gang urging him to “fully grasp reality.” In the opposite corner, three… different… views of Bjork chanting “Tibet” during her song “Declare Independence” in Shanghai, which had vice culture minister Zhou Heping wishing foreign artists would “not do things against our laws or feelings.” A 1997 interview with His Holiness in Mother Jones, and an underwear salesman who had a vision: “I was in the pool and I saw the Dalai Lama carrying the Olympic torch across the sky… with sound.“ Filed In Week In Review // On Mar 12, 2008 //The Dalai Lama: Interviewed by Robert Thurman11 years ago, the Dalai Lama explained American sympathy this way: “I feel that Americans are interested because they are open-minded. They have an education system that teaches them to find out for themselves why things are the way they are… Buddha urged people to investigate things — he didn’t just command them to believe.” [Read] By Robert Thurman // At Mother Jones // On November/December 1997Filed In Articles // On Mar 12, 2008 // Under Tibet- |
