Micah Sittig - China, Shanghai, Books

November 6, 2003

Danwei.org points to the English web page of Caijing magazine. The editor of Danwei.org characterizes Caijing as:

one of China's better investigative periodicals. The publication's muckraking articles have won it praise as well as unwelcome attention from those who prefer their muck unraked.

Check out Reforming the Export Tax Rebate.

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November 9, 2003

Like California, China is fighting its own fires right now in Hunan. My condolences go out to the families of the brave firemen who gave their lives to keep others safe.

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November 15, 2003

So the word on the Chinese blog scene is that a celebrity from Guangdong named Mu Zimei was quoted in an article as having a weblog. Mu Zimei is so famous, that a single mention of the word weblog in connection with her name sent millions (ok, I exaggerate) of people to their computers to find out what's the deal with weblogs. Ever since then, BlogCN has been either down or returning a "sorry, busy!" message. What's up with that? Ah, here's a good explanation from our man in Beijing, danwei.org.

Update: more info on Mu Zimei at Xinhuanet (Chinese).

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November 16, 2003

A post made today on the SDF BBS system:

Tacker: aeoe
Subject: a hint for chinese getting into democracy
Date: 16-Nov-03 16:27:32

dear chinese people,

since you are getting into democracy you will probably begin to start voting alot more often. well, i just want to warn you guys about something we have run into here in the USA.

there is this company called 'diebold'. -do not- let them set up your voting machines. they are bastards.

good luck

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November 17, 2003

An announcement from the Xinzai.com Beijing newsletter:

Thursday, November 20, 2003
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German DJ Timo Maas comes to play
Club Nightman 64662562, 9 PM

Now that's an event worth going to.

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November 24, 2003

Via Winds of Change, an absolutely riveting account of the recent anti-Japanese riots in Xian.

Around 4 PM, the students were so riled up that they literally broke through our door and raced up the stairs (the elevator has been truned off earlier in case something like this would happen) looking for the rooms of the Japanese students. It was a disgusting mob scene as they went down the hallways turning the knobs on every door and kicking in some doors, breaking glass, etc.. On one floor, they kicked the door off its frame, entered and were attacking two Japanese girls before they were pulled off!!! As they were hitting the girls, they were shouting, "kill, kill".

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