Monthly Archives: February 2009

China's Censorship 2.0: How companies censor bloggers – MacKinnon (tags: china internet censorship RebeccaMacKinnon research) Goodbye to the Age of Newspapers (Hello to a New Era of Corruption) – Paul Starr in TNR Among other important passages: "Insofar as newspapers … Continue reading →

Mazda Has Michael Phelps Apologize to China – The Lede Blog – NYTimes.com "The 52-second video has been posted on several Web sites in China, and one major Chinese newspaper said the video had been sent directly from the Japanese … Continue reading →

Hoax dictionary entries about legendary obscene beasts (tags: china internet baidu wiki humor) CCTV apologizes for fireworks that burned Beijing hotel – International Herald Tribune "Even before the flames had been extinguished early Tuesday, images of the burning hotel had … Continue reading →

RConversation: Live Webcast and Chat Tuesday/Wednesday: The Future of Freedom and Control in the Internet Age The Open Society Institute and Asia Society will host an event with Open Society Fellows Rebecca MacKinnon and Evgeny Morozov that explores the changing … Continue reading →

Japan Says Clinton's Visit Shows Country's Importance to U.S. (Bloomberg) "In her first trip abroad as President Barack Obama’s top diplomat, Clinton will spend a week going to Tokyo, Jakarta, Seoul and Beijing beginning Feb. 15." — Japan is first … Continue reading →

Mutant Palm » Historical Chinese Image Collections (tags: china photographs history images sources researchy) Cafe-Shaped Conversations | chrisbrogan.com

Online Collections: Historical Photographs of China; Korean War | Jottings from the Granite Studio (tags: china research photographs history images sources koreanwar) 王千源事件 – 维基百科，自由的百科全书 Chinese Wikipedia article on Grace Wang. Via Isaac Mao. (tags: china nationalism gracewang 王千源)

Jeffrey Wasserstrom: 10 Things That Obama Should Do (To Prepare for Going to Beijing) (tags: china-us barackobama jeffreywasserstrom readinglist)

Asia Rising – Japanese Postcards of the Russo-Japanese War – MIT Visualizing Cultures (tags: japan johndower design art mit) Néojaponisme » Blog Archive » The Origin of Zoku David Marx writes: … there was also the SoLa-Zoku (ソーラー族), which has … Continue reading →

Observing Japan: Obama already passing Japan? "Japanese officials should welcome efforts by the US to open new channels of communication with China, just as the US should welcome Japanese efforts to do the same. This idea that Japan loses just … Continue reading →