All Posts For 2009 January

Rebecca MacKinnon’s Letter to President Obama

Rebecca MacKinnon’s Letter to President Obama

Rebecca MacKinnon (RConversation) posted her inaugural HuffingtonPost article today.  Its an exceptional, concise piece of writing that understands the situation... 

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Chinese New Year Lantern photos

Chinese New Year Lantern photos

Here’s five beautiful pictures of Chinese New Year Lanterns, from Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Malaysia and mostly from previous seasons.  Nevertheless, they... 

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Chinese New Year Food – differences across six Provinces

Chinese New Year Food – differences across six Provinces

What food do Chinese people eat for New Years?  Turns out that people in the East, the South, the West, and the North all eat different things. Last year, Min Guo,... 

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Twitter & China in 2009: What We Could See

Twitter & China in 2009: What We Could See

2008 + Twitter = ? This isn’t a non-formula if you’re not into Twitter, by the way. You may have missed something big. Especially something that became... 

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Tips on Creative Entrepreneurship in China

Tips on Creative Entrepreneurship in China

Danwei held its Third Plenary Session on Creative business in China earlier this week at the oft-mentioned Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business(长江商学院). ... 

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Liberal Democracy Is A Treatment, NOT A Cure

Liberal Democracy Is A Treatment, NOT A Cure

Doctor: You. Patient: Human. Symptoms: Apathy, corruption, discrimination, exploitation, failure, greed, ineptitude, memory-loss, short-sightedness, too many to... 

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NYT Reminds Us Westerners Not Much Better Than Chinese

NYT Reminds Us Westerners Not Much Better Than Chinese

Richard @ The Peking Duck, one of my long-time RSS subscriptions, recently linked to a New York Times’ piece titled “The End of the Financial World as... 

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CNReviews 2008 Summary, Part 2 – May through August

CNReviews 2008 Summary, Part 2 – May through August

CNReviews 2008 Summary > Part 1 – Part 2 – Part 3 Sorry, we’re not done with the 2008 retrospectives yet.  Why the lengthy, 自我自恋 (self-referentially... 

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China Blog Awards 2008: winning takes 508 votes and wet pussy

China Blog Awards 2008: winning takes 508 votes and wet pussy

Have you heard of this blog Wo Shi Laowai – Wo Pa Shui before? Overall Winner of the China Blog Awards Chinalyst just announced the winners in their annual... 

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