A Slow Boat to China

A Washington Post article describes a song that Li Hua, a teacher at Nada #2 Middle School (那大二中) in Danzhou (儋州), wrote on his school website that criticized senior city government officials. Li was subsequently arrested. The Nada #2 Middle School homepage is no longer accesible, and the website archives are no longer […]

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Although I had never heard of the event until now, many Chinese bloggers have compared the heroic act of Liviu Librescu blocking the Virginia Tech shooter from entering his classroom so that students could escape, and the shameful acts of Chinese officials at a huge fire in Xinjiang in 1994 that killed over 300 middle […]

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Teng Biao: Finding Opportunity in the Cui Yingjie Case
The case involving the murder of a chengguan (城管) that received so much attention finally reached a verdict: Cui Yingjie was sentence to death, with a reprieve of two years.
In this case, there were no winners.
The Haidian District Deputy Brigade Leader Li […]

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辽宁省铁岭清河特殊钢有限公司， 20多吨钢水冲进工房 32人亡

When most of America’s attention was drawn towards the Virginia Tech story, Fang Jun alerted me to another incident, on the other side of the world, that is just as tragic, although it did not involve human evil displayed by the Blacksburg shootings.
From Eastday: Thirty-two workers were killed and six injured yesterday after […]

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Fang Jun (方军), one of the Chinese bloggers on Mindmeters, offered this thought regarding the killings at Virginia Tech, or more appropriately the media response of it. The title is “Tragedy.”
I feel sorrow for the campus tragedy that occurred in America.
But the thought suddenly occurred to me, why does everyone care this much about […]

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