Sinosphere Friday

After a week's break, here we go once more.

An encounter with the Ministry of State Security on the night of Tiananmen.

Normally, if a Chinese crowd turn on the chengguan and give them a beating there’s a universal chorus of approval around the Sinosphere. Not this time.

Student protest in Han dynasty China:

The men of Faction lived in a age of confusion and disorder, when all things were out of place and the four seas were in turmoil. They sought to solve problems by the words in their mouths, giving judgments of good and bad so as to wipe out evil and restore purity. They sought to seize the snakes and vipers by the head, and trample on the tails of the tiger and the wolf. But it was they themselves who were injured and wrongfully punished, and the ill fortune reached their friends. Men of quality were destroyed, and the nation moved on to disaster. The pity of it!

 Even more on the unfolding Green Dam fiasco.

China, The Democratic Republic of Congo and the IMF: the copper triangle.

Public Opinion Channeling: the latest from the Chinese state information management matrix.

The Taoist approach to gun control.

Don’t be a Chinese child:

Don't ever be a Chinese child,
because mommy and
daddy are cowards

When the theatre caught fire,
they steeled their hearts
and let the cadres exit first.

Before you ask it’s the Chinese cops on an anti-terrorism drill. More over here.

Lastly, the strange, sad case of the virgin prostitutes of Kunming. And more.

Comments

[Richard J]

Speaking of Green Dam, have you seen this?

http://www.wikileaks.org/wiki/Green_Dam_censorship_system_internal_brief_to_Chinese_government%2C_doc%2C_Jan_2008

(Can't read a word of Chinese, sadly.)

[jamie]

Yeah, I covered that earlier this week in the first Green Dam story. There's a trnslation at Rconversation (see blogroll under China)