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David Miranda, Glenn Greenwald, Lao She 19 Aug 2013 | 01:56 am
Exhibit A: David Miranda, who lives with Glenn Greenwald, was returning from a trip to Berlin when he was stopped by officers at 8.05am and informed that he was to be questioned under schedule 7 of t...
5,000 Years Is Not Enough 12 Jul 2013 | 06:00 am
Exhibit A: From the English Global Times/Xinhua, “Archaeologists push back origin of Chinese characters by 1,000 years,” July 10, 2013: Archeologists in China have confirmed that the inscriptions fou...
New Rectified.name post: “Peking Opera Masks and the London Book Fair” 30 Apr 2012 | 06:51 pm
Only ten days too late to be truly timely! A few years ago, a few other translators and I were talking with employees of a Chinese publishing house who said that they had some books that they wanted ...
扎堆儿就要抱团儿: New Group Blog 26 Mar 2012 | 03:11 pm
So about a month ago, Jeremiah sent around an e-mail to a few China bloggers pointing out that our individual blogs were gathering dust faster than Jiang Zemin’s corpse. I am paraphrasing here, but le...
Soft Power从我做起 22 Sep 2011 | 08:29 pm
OK everybody, it’s Genius Time: I’m going to write a screenplay. It’ll be a romantic comedy for the 90后 teenyboppers. Premise: two online censors meet cute when they accidentally delete the same foru...
Today in non-Chinese Language Politics 16 Aug 2011 | 01:53 pm
Exhibit A: Geoffrey K. Pullum, Language Log: “David Starkey on rioting and Jamaican language” A week after the riots that sprang up across a large part of England, pundits are struggling to find sma...
Development 13 May 2011 | 04:04 am
When I was explaining the difference between Beijing and Hong Kong, I used to say to friends back home that Hong Kong was the kind of place where my Evil Expat Twin would have a great time. Then a co...
Trans-Cultural Yuppieism and the Big Gulp 12 May 2011 | 07:04 am
I don’t know if you’ve ever had the pleasure of visiting Ikea in China — on weekends, especially, it’s like a theme park (FurnitureLand?) where people flop around on the demo units, test out lamps by ...
True world-class badmotherfuckerdom 29 Jan 2011 | 05:46 am
Exhibit A: Genghis Khan’s Mongol invasion in the 13th and 14th centuries was so vast that it may have been the first instance in history of a single culture causing man-made climate change, according...
The Tonsorial Theory of Development 20 Jan 2011 | 05:07 pm
Hu Jintao is in the US, and as usual Jamie is asking the questions nobody else has the courage to ask. From a comment I left on that post: I’ve often wondered if there is a hair dye (or possibly sho...
