A bit old, but it was so beautiful, that I can’t leave it out. (via Most creative protest ever: 50 cent bills rained on Yunnan’s super censor Wu Hao - Shanghaiist)
unsorted stuff from kunming berlin
Posts tagged “china”
A survey about GFW circumvention by the great Kenengba Blog, not scientific but pretty interesting. And from what I’ve seen, the results feel right. Global voices online have a short translation.
“ Das durchschnittlich verfügbare Pro-Kopf-Einkommen im Jahr 2008 in der Stadt: 17.175 RMB (ca. 1.717 EUR); am Tag durchschnittlich bei 47,05 RMB (ca. 4,70 Euro). Auf dem Land 2008 durchschnittlich bei: 5.153 RMB (ca. 515 EUR); am Tag durchschnittlich bei 14,12 RMB (ca. 1,41 EUR/Tag). ”
Etwas Statistik: Chinas Herausforderungen
“ 孔圣人…我的线代啊…
Confucius, what about my linear algebra! ”
Confucius has a page on renren.com (a kind of Chinese Facebook). Global Voices online translated some comments left for him: China: How does the young generation view Confucius.
Communist party officials criticise Liu Xiaobo conviction
Four party officials sign strongly worded open letter in protest at jailing of co-author of Charter 08 call for reform
(guardian.co.uk)
“ 无论从哪个角度看，孔子都很恶心
From whatever angle you look at it, Confucius is simply disgusting. ”
Ai Weiwei (艾未未) on Twitter, Jan 19 2010
It’s about 孔丘老二 Confucius himself, not the movie, as Ai Weiwei answered a tweeted question.
“Are you saying this slogan is vulgar?” (The slogan reads “Building a Socialist Country with Chinese Characteristics!” The circled characters, “characteristics” (te se) sounds like “very pornographic.”) (via China News: BlogTD: Cartoons About Recent News Events | China Digital Times (CDT))
“ When reading the survey results from the government official websites, you always feel why I am always at the opposite side of the public opinion, even feel like I am a post 90s generation, why I am always not mainstream. ”
我只是在猜想 by Han Han (韩寒), translated by ChinaHush: I am just exploring. 15 Jan 2010
