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Soobrosa's Bookmarks: china

Mitch Moxley: Rent a White Guy
Confessions of a fake businessman from Beijing.
2010-06-29 to bestof, business, china
Tom Downey: China’s Cyberposse
The idea that you manage the local bureaucracy by sicking the masses on them is actually not a democratic tradition but a Maoist tradition.
2010-04-13 to bestof, china, democracy, grassroots, internet, law, media, privacy, truth
Raffi Khatchadourian: The Stolen Forests
Inside the covert war on illegal logging.
2009-07-28 to bestof, biology, biosphere, business, china, crime, global warming, globalisation, greed, mafia, organized crime, russia, smuggling, walmart
Q. and A.: Ben Simpfendorfer on China and the Arab World: Letter from China: Online Only: The New Yorker
China overtook the United States as the world’s biggest exporter to the Middle East earlier this year.
2009-07-07 to arabic, bestof, business, china, politics, trade
Michael Wines: A Dirty Pun Tweaks China’s Online Censors
Of course, the government could decide to delete all Internet references to the phrase “grass-mud horse,” an easy task for its censorship software.
2009-03-25 to bestof, censorship, china, internet, media
Andy Baio: Translating "The Economist" Behind China's Great Firewall
I spoke to Shi Yi, the Eco Team's current leader, and he told me that he has a good relationship with The Economist.
2009-03-08 to bestof, censorship, china, community, grassroots, media, translation
Jennifer 8. Lee: First, Crack Them Open (Like Americans Do!)
“Chinese people don’t know what to do with a fortune cookie. They don’t know that you have to open it.”
2008-09-01 to china, food, fortune cookies
Evan Osnos: Angry Youth
The new generation’s neocon nationalists in China.
2008-08-19 to bestof, china, nationalism, society
John Mauldin: The Geopolitics Of China
China's geopolitical problem is economic. Its first geopolitical imperative, maintain the unity of Han China, and its third, protect the coast, are both more deeply affected by economic considerations than military ones.
2008-07-06 to bestof, china, geopolitics, politics, trade
John Pomfret: Social Engineering
China is ruled by geeks. For the last 30 years, engineers have dominated China's political system.
2008-07-02 to bestof, books, china, engineers, future, geeks, society

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