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How Wrong Is It To Use Nude Children In Billboard Advertising? Shenzhen Agency Finds Out

Posted: 23 Dec 2012 09:01 PM PST

Shenzhen billboard nude children

The Shenzhen ad firm Lanbite Advertising has come under fire recently for an eight-meter-high billboard on the Shenzhen-Hong Kong border that shows four naked children playing in the grass. SCMP has the news:

Since the advert first appeared late last month, tens of thousands of commuters passing between Lok Ma Chau and Huanggang in Shenzhen have probably seen it.

"It should be a private picture for a mother to keep at home as part of the family's memories," said Daisy Lee, a Tuen Men resident who has a six-year-old daughter and commutes between the two cities regularly.

"It is definitely pointless and inappropriate to post [that] in public, especially for commercial advertising."

We've had this discussion before: when five-year-old girls were used as bikini models at a car show in Wuhan last month, and when a newspaper ran a photo of a kid peeing into a cup at a hotpot restaurant in August. How old is too old, exactly, for nudity? The kids in the billboard — how old do they look? What if they were all three years older? Too much? I really don't know.

But what is almost certain is that the controversy has been a boon for the ad agency. The image is intended to market the billboard space itself, so the pitch might go something like this: Hate this image? Pay us to replace it!

Although it must be said that the picture has absolutely nothing to do with the purpose of the sign. The large words to the left read "for rent" — which is, at best, incongruous, and at worst…

Confusion over the short slogan next to the picture – "for rent" – appears to be adding to the debate. Some who have seen the sign say it could appear as if they boys themselves are for rent.

"Oh this is dreadful and just appalling," wrote one Facebook user. "Totally inappropriate and downright creepy, given what the sign says."

Shenzhen ad agency gets flak for billboard with nude children (SCMP, h/t Alicia)

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Chinese Communist Party ‘would have survived Mayan apocalypse’

Posted: 23 Dec 2012 08:15 PM PST

By SHIJIE MORI
Mayan Correspondent

A Chinese man with his home-made Ark yesterday: the CCP has ordered seven

BEIJING (China Daily Show) – China's popular Communist Party (CCP) yesterday received another fillip to its rule after the long-predicted "Mayan Apocalypse" came and went, with the long-running dynasty still firmly in place.

Indeed, many now believe that – even if the seas had boiled and the sky turned to fire, as had purportedly been claimed in Latin American texts since 3114BC – the CCP would still have comfortably maintained its grip on government.

A popular joke in China goes that, after the holocaust, the only things left would be cockroaches and Party discipline. But increasing numbers of academic shills are adding credence to this idea.

"It would take more than a 'Doomsday' to eradicate a system of such keen meritocratic value," explained Professor David Bellend, a Confucian expert at the Beijing No 4 Agricultural Kindergarten. "In the event of any kind of Armageddon scenario in China, the finest minds and ideas would simply rise to the top, as if by magic."

A powerful national infrastructure, capable of enduring the end of all life and sustained by the CCP, has been erected with "unshakeable faith," the People's Daily remarked yesterday morning, without referencing what it was talking about.

China has excellent drainage systems to cope with the possibility of flooding in urban areas, the editorial continued, while its schools and hospital are built to withstand huge volumes of bird strike.

 "The CCP has been in power since the ancient times," claimed Professor Fang Danfeng, a Meso-American specialist and author of It's the Social Stability, Stupid (Xinhua Books, 2008).

"The Mayan calendar also predicted many other things correctly, including the End of Days – but only for Japan, certain parts of the Phillipines and a number of counter-revolutionary religious cults."

Interviewed about the amazing findings, a number of Chinese pedestrians simply slumped to their knees, slowly, and proceeded to weep silent tears.

Follow news and development in China on Twitter with @chinadailyshow

 

Bull In Wuhan Escapes Slaughterhouse: Watch It Dash For Freedom, Cause Three-Hour Traffic Jam

Posted: 23 Dec 2012 08:05 PM PST

This is kind of a sad story not at all befitting the circus music in the video, with no comedic kick. A bull in Wuhan, Hubei province managed to escape from its slaughterhouse on Saturday — who knows what inspirational dash it made, eluding its human captors while cheered by his fellow inmates as if it were Chief running toward a rising sun, a new life, freedom. In the movie version of this — Buffalo: Bull in the City — our protagonist would be adopted by an idiosyncratic old zookeeper with a heart of gold and live out its life as a chaperone for dogs and cats.

This bull here ran against traffic, caused a three-hour jam, seriously pissed off the officers chasing him, evacuated itself (it appears) near the end, and — as we speak — has probably been slaughtered and is headed toward someone's plate. #RealLife

China's Top 10 Internet Memes of 2012: Miniskirts and Prudes

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People Pound Each Other With Pillows In Shanghai To “Relieve Stress”

Posted: 23 Dec 2012 07:36 PM PST

Huang Na says pillow fights can be an outlet for stress, so she organized one involving more than 200 participants in Shanghai recently, just in time for the holidays. (ITN)

If you're the type who expects pillow fights to be carried out only in bedrooms, this Youku clip is where you want to be. Probably NSFW.

(H/T Alicia)

646 villages will not be destroyed (good luck to the other 2.7 million)

Posted: 23 Dec 2012 06:00 PM PST

646 villages will not be destroyed (good luck to the other 2.7 million) A year after China failed its heritage-site check up, a panel has selected more than 600 rural sites to be of "special cultural significance" and which will be preserved as the nation develops. The survey of Chinese towns, commissioned by the Housing Ministry and State Administration of Cultural Heritage, began in May and resulted in nearly 12,000 candidates for conservation. Out of these 12,000, around 5% were decided to be worthy of preservation [ more › ]

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The Christmas Not Stolen (An Expat Christmas No. 1)

Posted: 23 Dec 2012 06:00 PM PST

An Expat ChristmasIn the spirit of Christmas, BJC is running a series in which foreigners in China write about what it's like to spend the holidays in their respective cities. We start in Beijing, where Matt Sheehan recounts a strange, eye-opening, comical — and burly — celebration in an "underground church."

By Matt Sheehan

Last Christmas Eve, as a dipping sun was taking the day's last light, I found myself pacing beside a frozen river on the west side of Beijing. Up the bank stood a handful of Chinese men flying kites, old enough to be unaware that they should be doing last-minute shopping. I was nervous, and I was waffling.

That year I had decided to approach Christmas with a Catholic spirit of self-denial. My previous Christmas in China consisted of a 12-hour workday involving a rotating cast of young English-learners in Xi'an, and that experience had largely sold me on the impossibility of a proper Yuletide on the mainland. At that stage, a part of me still treated the China experience as an extended Lent, a time to suffer through in anticipation of future rewards. You could say I was being a Grinch, but I'd call it a coping mechanism. I figured that a half-baked celebration without family or close friends was probably worse than no celebration at all, so I wanted to deny the holiday's existence entirely.

But then I met A Long.

When I first encountered him, he was kicking a shuttlecock with old ladies beside the same river I was now pacing. Standing just 5-feet-6, he's on the short side even for Chinese standards, but what he lacked in height he made up for in muscle — the kind that enabled him to jump and grab a basketball rim, and do 360-degree wheelhouse kicks of the jianzi. His raw athleticism was honed over years of intense training in China's national athletics program, as he had been a nationally-ranked wrestler with an eye on the Olympics before his sudden retirement at the age of 23.

I immediately liked A Long. He had a way of exuding friendly enthusiasm and relaxed confidence at the same time, a combination that I found uncommon. There was something else unique about him though: he was a firm believer of Jesus Christ as savior.

He had his awakening soon after a career-threatening spine injury. Despite doctors' predictions that he would never wrestle again, A Long placed second in a Beijing tournament just months after surgery. While recovering, he reflected on the friendship and support bestowed upon him by Christian athletes, who prayed for him, and he realized he'd never felt that kind of honest and unconditional love and care.

Despite not being Christian, I liked hanging out with A Long. But I was nervous about how his Christmas Eve party would play out. I imagined people game-planning how best to convert me. I paced the frozen river for half an hour, wondering whether to just retreat home and watch a movie, before the baijiu-mixed-Fanta in my pocket finally kicked in, and I climbed up the bank toward A Long's apartment.

It was clear on first sight that my fears were utterly misplaced.

The two-bedroom apartment was jammed with 50 beaming people, most of them men with arms as large as my torso. As I made my way through the crowd, A Long introduced his guests by the sport they played (professionally, in most cases): wrestling, soccer, swimming, etc. There were a disproportionate number of semi-pro bodybuilders. In sharp contrast with their physiques, these people wore some of the softest smiles you'll ever see.

It was quickly apparent that the gathering was an underground "house church." These are technically illegal, but largely tolerated. Yet it was hard for me to imagine, at that moment, how anyone would ever find these guys a threat. For a government constantly suffering from the neurotic fear of violent unrest, this brand of Christianity seemed like a perfect restorative: never had I seen such a compact crowd of individuals so at peace with themselves.

After our meal, everyone huddled into the living room. We watched a movie about the birth of Jesus and then sang Silent Night in Chinese. I watched the jocks go through a protracted pitch for Christianity for the newcomers. One after another, men with biceps as big as watermelons stood up to say how opening their heart to Jesus had finally brought meaning to their bodybuilding careers.

In China, the word "love" isn't used much outside of cheesy pop music. But for those who have grown up in China's post-reform moral vacuum, the openness and sense of affection, caring, and love inside that apartment must have been intoxicating. I was simply soaking it in. Later in the night, A Long handed me a Bible, pleading with his eyes for me to open my heart to it. I took the book and was ready to take my leave when someone called our attention back to the living room.

"Hey brothers and sisters, thank you so much for coming. Before you go, some of us figured that since tonight we have so many strong and beautiful bodies gathered here, we wanted to have a little performance. How about it?"

And with that, some of the burliest men in the room exchanged glances, nodded, stood up, and striped. Within seconds, the living room was a bodybuilding stage. Before my eyes, four or five of the most muscular, square-jawed Chinese men I'd ever seen hammed it up in their boxers while forty-plus other Christians hooted while snapping cell phone pictures like there was no tomorrow. I was dumbstruck.

Eventually they put their clothes back on, and I think the plastic Jesus on the mantle must have exhaled. We gradually filed out into the cold night. Retracing my return route along the river, I couldn't stop shaking my head and smiling — at the dancers, at the songs, at A Long, and, most of all, at how my inner Grinch nearly robbed me of the strangest Christmas of my life.

Matt Sheehan is a broadcast journalist in Beijing. You can reach him at mattsheehan88@gmail.com or @mattsheehan88.

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Pencil This In: Dec 24-27 - A Very Merry Christmas!!!

Posted: 23 Dec 2012 04:00 PM PST

Pencil This In: Dec 24-27 - A Very Merry Christmas!!! Shanghaiist wishes you a very Merry Christmas 2012! Our present to you all: Pencil This In with an extra large selection of fun events on Christmas Eve and the week! There's something for everyone and every budget. Mulled wine, dinner, free flow, party, techno, disco, rock, gay, salsa, movies, ballet, theater, live music, trash. Read on for all the details, or check out our calendar for more! [ more › ]

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Blogging The Bloggers: Managing The Chattering Classes

Posted: 23 Dec 2012 04:00 PM PST

King TubbyPeeping weekly at the best (and worst) that was, is, and will be on the China blogosphere.

The weblogs which concern us here are a mix of vanity press and sociopolitical discussion forums. But first and foremost, they are terrains where weblords attempt to manage and regulate discussion, cross-cultural differences and those rotten anarchic impulses intended to derail thread trajectory. And it goes without saying that different sites attract different digital communities. Throw in market share, monetisation ("Meet Juicyfruit: I love the hip hop and r@b. Design the handbag"), a couple of the seven deadly sins, and it's time to discuss those About and Commenting Rules buttons.

China/Divide attempted to address the regulation issue in a democratic manner by attaching a vote up/down button alongside each comment. Okay, the conversation usually oscillated from the silly to the serious, and the voting function pandered to egos of every stripe — it was doomed to failure. Sneaky bastards opened second mail addresses to inflate their ratings. Kai Pan, one of the Amigos tasked with dealing with these sneaks, usually ended up putting IP addresses between certain ranges into moderation mode. While this identified the perp, it also pissed off the innocent. Eventually, the function was disabled and the GFW did the rest. Also, in its day, China/Divide set the standard in terms of layout and appearance, no competition.

Sticking with the Amigos, Charlie Custer tightened up his commenting rules in March 2010 (and again in September 2012) after persistent threats, entreaties and a lot of fucking bad language, all in the vain hope of elevating discussion and keeping it on topic. He took valuable time out of his budding directorial career to write this comprehensive statement on posting sins, any of which would result in partial or total deletion. Logical fallacies were definitely not on the menu, and his wiki link to this multifaceted mortal sin was enough to cow and terrify. That is, unless you had PhDs in Logic and Latin. There were Formal, Propositional, Quantificational, Formal Syllogistic, Informal, Red Herring and Conditional Fallacies to deal with. His shock and awe campaign has been a great success since it has virtually strangled discussion. Or maybe, weblogs of the type Custer helped pioneer have a finite life span.

Hidden Harmonies China Blog adopts an entirely different approach. We are initially introduced to the Editorial Team, Allen, DeWang, Melektaus et. al, and can read about their backgrounds and aspirations for The Great Red Dragon in the 21st century. For example, Melektaus "is a 1.5 generation Chinese American living in the heart of Appalachia. He received his formal education in philosophy and hopes to be travelling to China soon to do some work with educating the youth." No Deliverance jokes, okay. DeWang comes from my home province Fujian, so it is little wonder he fucked off in 1984, and don't be surprised if his hometown is Fujiang, aka Snakehead Central.

Before commenting, you must go to the FAQ and read their Terms of Service:

Welcome to Hidden Harmonies! Before you begin participating in Hidden Harmonies, you must read and agree to the following terms and conditions and policies, including any future amendments (collectively, "Terms of Service"):

After perusing the 10 terms, you come away with the feeling that you are either about to buy a massive publishing joint venture or sign up with Jenny Craig. Now many non-harmony folk have attempted to negotiate these terms over the years to post dissenting opinions, clarifications, etc. They have included bright young thing FOARP, Custer, Richard Burger, and all came away sounding demoralized, abused and swearing never again.

Yet, the HH posse have their moments, particularly when they champion human rights as witnessed by their take on Li Xiaojie, the iPhone shopper who got tasered by cops in a hurry to finish the shift with all their paperwork completed. There are dark threats to boycott Apple products, even after Pugster recommends the Galaxy G3. After this "call to action," we meet john_hugo@comcast.net, the… um… fiance (comment #21):

I am from Boston. Xiaojie Li, is my fiance and the love of my life. She was burtally attacked by the police for no good reason and continues to suffer from the effects of the physical violence, the emotional trauma and the loss of her dignity. (sic)

Then things get positively surreal.

Li is likened to "a present day Rosa Parks, (because) she stood up against prejudice and injustice," and is advised to involve the ACLU because Apple is "racially profiling Asian customers" (#23). Hugo then mistakens one of his interlocutors for the Director of the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) (#26). Finally, the real facts emerge after a major challenge to this convoluted drivel by some poster called The Truth (#38). Li is a Christian (surely a damning fact in itself) who owns steakhouses in China (# 38). Hugo then takes it on himself to defend Li's honour (#54):

The fact is, that we do not yet live together yet. She is a conservative woman and has children at home.
So who cares where she sleeps? Anyway it is nobodys business what we do in private.

Forget the Terms of Agreement and the taser biz. The Li story is just another sordid Christian menage a trois divided by two continents.

Richard at Peking Duck skips the comment policy statement altogether and relies instead on a mix of personal authority and warnings to maintain order in the yard. And to his credit, the system works while generating some truly massive threads. However, I'm not sure if I like the view that a blog is like one's house (or Pommy castle): a lounge room and therefore subject to the owner's invitation and unstated rules. Wipe your feet, no loud throat-clearing and don't scuff the furniture.

You get the feeling that he is rather proud of his regular trolls and their capacity to generate FQ-Western thread chatter. The poor bastards are continually told to get their heads right and not indulge in tu quoque arguments. This rejoinder has been used so often now that one suspects his rusted-on FQ posters suffer from some congenital disorder. Put simply, continuous harping on about this commenting crime has drained quoque-ism of all meaning.

We all know that Asians have a long historical record of being perfectly beastly to their own citizens and near neighbors. However, Richard conveniently forgets the fact that, in spite of its much vaunted Constitutional framework of government, Yankee Land has quite a bloody FP record over the past 40 years. Nixon and his SS divided the nation internally, while practicing warfare on an industrial scale in Southeast Asia.* The rebuttal that he was eventually brought to book and disgraced means bugger to those who were on the receiving end of bombs, napalm and defoliants. We can add Reagan and his covert financing and other support for right-wing death squads in the South Americas, plus the Bushies who drained the nation of its blood and treasure in the belief that they could socially engineer democracy in the Middle East.

Oh yes, the response. I voted Democrat, and anyway, we've got China under the microscope here.

Tomorrow is a big day for the Christers. You've met the type at Hong Kong airport. Porcine males with buzz cuts, wearing drip dry shirts and wide belts, spending their stopover time fiddling with tablets and talking loudly on mobiles. Eric at Sinostand has written a great piece on Cadres and Evangelists. As a bookend, I would go for Tom's thoughtful piece in Seeing Red in China titled "Eastern Lightning may be a cult, but they still have rights."** There is nothing more gratifying than watching this inter-Christian franchise war, with larger believer groups grassing on their slightly weirder competition.

And if you find yourself an orphan tomorrow, you can always hit up a google search – evangelical underground Christian cults China – and bone up on the various franchises and their doctrinal differences. I shouldn't be flippant here, since this is an important topic which gets little blog attention as a general rule. It will be quickly forgotten once the recent spate of headlines on end-times and apocalyptic entrepreneurship enter the archives.

* This is a rehash of a point made recently on Peking Duck.
** Despite being a mainstream Christian, Tom is consistent in his application of human rights arguments.

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Anti anti-corruption: Local government bureau blurs photos to 'protect' officals

Posted: 23 Dec 2012 02:00 PM PST

Anti anti-corruption: Local government bureau blurs photos to 'protect' officals Government officials in Xing'an County, Guangxi have been accused of "burying [their] head in the sand" after it emerged that they had blurred officials online photos in order to 'protect' them from netizens. Several of the photos of officals from the Xing'an County Land Resources Bureau are blurred out on their website. An official from the Bureau said that that privacy was important these days and that blurring the photos would help to protect the officials from 'extortion'. [ more › ]

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Child left trapped in car because it's too expensive to damage

Posted: 23 Dec 2012 11:00 AM PST

Child left trapped in car because it's too expensive to damage Parents in Wenzhou locked their young child in their car but refused to let him be rescued because the cost of repairing a window would be too great. On Saturday afternoon in Wenzhou city, Zhejiang, a young couple locked the keys into their new car along with their child. They called the emergency services who arrived at the scene to find a large crowd gathered around the vehicle. Everyone discussed what to do but decided that the only solution was to break one of the windows. However the owners refused to allow firemen to do so, saying that it was a new car and that it would cost too much to repair. [ more › ]

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Watch: Waste chillies re-used in hot-pot

Posted: 23 Dec 2012 09:22 AM PST

Watch: Waste chillies re-used in hot-pot Over the weekend a video has emerged from Chengdu, one of the epicentres of the gutter oil scandals, that shows a kitchen worker picking chillies out of a rubbish bin to re-use in the city's mouthwatering hot-pots. [ more › ]

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Police Stand Around And Watch While Gangsters Carry Out Brutal Assault

Posted: 23 Dec 2012 10:18 AM PST

In Heyuan, Guangdong province — on December 2, according to the surveillance monitor's timestamp (though the video was uploaded only three days ago) — two police officers stood back and watched as gangsters with cudgels and sticks beat the crap out of at least two people. No one quite knows the cause of the fight or the resolution — the video title says a victim was "beaten to death," but we're unable to confirm that. At one point, it looks like an officer's bike gets tipped over, but even then the two uniformed men make no effort to step into the fray. When confronted, in fact, they seem to take a step backward.

Don't be so quick to judge though. If you were an unarmed cop outnumbered by angry Triad, you probably wouldn't intervene either.

The Situation Is Excellent: The Week That Was At Beijing Cream

Posted: 23 Dec 2012 07:59 AM PST

December 17 – December 23

King Tubby's inaugural Blogging the Bloggers column set people talking – many of you, I feel, don't quite get it yet. North Korea's KNCA declared Kim Jong-un Time Magazine's "Person of the Year." And if you haven't yet, play Pyongyang Racing, the first computer game to come out of North Korea.

Footage of the Guangshan county knife slasher was released. Another person was killed in a school — by a hatchet. Andy Warhol's largest traveling exhibition is coming to Asia, but his famous Mao paintings won't be included on the China leg of the trip. And the Daily Mail wrote a shamefully bad China story.

Are we alive? Yes? Okay, just wanted to make sure.

Here's the inspiring story of a one-legged basketball player. A Chengdu woman gave birth on a moving bus. Police detained a woman petitioning for safety in the Beijing subway, while cops in Shandong petitioned against corruption, with one saying, "In the past we tried to stop people from protesting. But now we're in the same situation as them. We don't know what to do." Meanwhile, a man casually peed off a Beijing subway platform.

Internet censorship was in the news a lot: People's Daily wrote about it, Global Times editorialized on it, and the Chinese ambassador to the UK talked about it. Oh yeah, China upgraded its firewall.

Jackie Chan had a bad week. A shark tank burst on Shanghai's Nanjing Road. Dumpsters in Bijie now explicitly prohibit human and animal entry. The nail grave in Taiyuan was officially moved, while here's a gingerbread house that also didn't escape chai-qian.

Finally, let us relive the most epic backyard wrestling of all time.

Finally, finally… we redesigned!

Comment of the Week:

terroir, a friendly note to Chinese women on the post, "Papaya, dairy, soy, and massage can increase breast size: Global Times":

Dear Chinese women,

Your breasts are fine. Great, even. They look good on you, and you look fabulous. Don't mess up a good thing.

That is to put undue attention upon your breasts; don't think you need cleavage. Cleavage with Chinese characteristics appears to be wearing an underwire for an A-cup just to squish them puppies to make a visible butt crack on your chest.

Don't do it. Don't weaponize your cleavage to look like the dress that you're wearing is the illusion of a plumber pulling double overtime.

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Apple provides ladder to climb the Great Firewall

Posted: 23 Dec 2012 07:35 AM PST

Apple provides ladder to climb the Great Firewall China's recent VPN crack-down isn't only limited to your laptop. As of several days ago, the Chinese internet filters are able to detect attempts to download VPN apps from the iTunes store, and can trigger a connection reset in response. Not to be out-gunned, Apple has shifted its App Store connections to https, a secure connection that cannot be filtered by the Great Firewall. [ more › ]

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Art or a waste of roast chicken? Watch controversial Guangzhou performance art

Posted: 23 Dec 2012 06:20 AM PST

Art or a waste of roast chicken? Watch controversial Guangzhou performance art Kids today eh? A Guangzhou artist has caused controversy over his performance art piece on Saturday. In a much-publicised event the artist, Kang Yi, stood arms outstretched, wearing only a thong, and with three cooked ducks hanging from his body. A female helper then proceeded to get up and give him love-bites over his bare chest. [ more › ]

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