On The Media from ChinaAudio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser. By Brooke Gladstone // At On The Media // On June 20, 2008Filed In Audio // On Jun 24, 2008 // Under Modernization , Journalism7月16乐队 plays Beatles’ “From Me to You”By 7月16乐队 // At Tudou // On ?Filed In Video // On Jun 24, 2008 // Under Music , Pop CultureSo Long China…We’ve waited, day after day after day, for someone to tell us about the bad, the really bad, parts of doing journalism in China. That day never came… [Read] By Megan Ryan // At On the Media // On June 10, 2008Filed In Blogs // On Jun 14, 2008 // Under JournalismExiled Novelist Publishes Tiananmen Massacre NovelAt NTDTV // On May 19, 2008Filed In Video // On Jun 13, 2008 // Under June 4, 1989 , LiteratureThe Cleanest Prison in the WorldThe American media “should step up the pressure it puts on the Chinese government. Otherwise, all that is wrong with China will become a virus that will infect the world.” — Ma Jian, the exiled author of Beijing Coma. [Read] By Bill Marx // At PRI // On June 4, 2008Filed In Articles // On Jun 13, 2008 // Under June 4, 1989 , LiteratureFull Excerpt for Beijing Coma: A Novel by Ma Jian“Technically speaking, he’s a vegetable,” says a nurse to my right. “But at least the IV fluid is still entering his vein. That’s a good sign.” She seems to be speaking through a face mask and tearing a piece of muslin. The noises vibrate through me, and for a moment I gain a vague sense of the size and weight of my body… If I’m a vegetable, I must have been lying here unconscious for sometime. So, am I waking up now? [Read] By Ma Jian // At Macmillan // On May 2008Filed In Articles // On Jun 13, 2008 // Under June 4, 1989 , LiteratureMa Jian’s “Stick Out Your Tongue” (NPR Books, Segment 6, “Dissident Stories…” @ 57min, 15sec)Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser. By Alan Cheuse // At NPR // On June 4, 2006Filed In Audio // On Jun 13, 2008 // Under Literature , Banned“One of the ‘Buildings of Evil?’”
Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas, who is building CCTV’s massive new headquarters, diverts criticism for colluding with totalitarianism, saying in an interview with Die Zeit, “The West is critical, always only critical… We simply must recognize that the rights of the individual have no tradition in China.” Filed In Week In Review // On Jun 10, 2008 //In the thickets of statisticsA World Bank study shows that 600 million Chinese have been lifted out of poverty since 1981 — roughly, since the 1978 market reforms. Shanghai’s stock market dropped 7% in May and 35% for the year so far. The Wall Street Journal predicts that, warned not to sell off bad stocks too soon, Chinese investors may “speculate more on the next government intervention than on the relative merits of stocks, leading to misallocated capital.”
“Chinese refrigerant factories, for example, produce a lot of trifluoromethane, which is a potent greenhouse gas, but one that can be easily isolated and destroyed. Yet the government does not regulate the stuff, so that its makers can exploit the CDM to sign lucrative contracts, which the government then taxes heavily.” China has banned sex workers and terrorists for the upcoming Olympics. Some Beijing brothels are already disappearing. Uighurs reportedly threw rocks and Molotov cocktails at a police station in Xinjiang. An April report from Time magazine concluded “The one thing equally shared, today in Khotan, between Uighur and Han Chinese, is fear.”
Filed In Week In Review // On Jun 9, 2008 //In China, the truth dukes it out with touching falsehoods“It doesn’t matter whether this information is true or not. What matters is whether the feelings are true.” Fake news angers a few, but not most. [Read] By David Bandurski // At China Media Project // On June 9, 2008Filed In Articles // On Jun 9, 2008 // Under Journalism , Feelings- Next |
