June 2011
11 posts
“The Yuan has risen a lot—21% since 2005 … It’s done nothing to close the...”
– Sorry Tim Geithner, The St. Louis Fed Just Told The Truth About Yuan Revaluation
May 2011
21 posts
Chinese in Africa : Photography by Per-Anders... →
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“Whatever the Chinese equivalent is of Kool-Aid, Pakistan’s prime minister...”
– Pakistan and China “Like One Nation and Two Countries” | China Digital Times (CDT)
“I don’t mind if China has civil war, epidemics, panics, depressions … The only...”
– Jim Rogers: “If China Doesn’t Solve Its Water Problems, There’s No China Story” | China Digital Times (CDT)
“I’ll bet that there will be others in the future who, like me, will become...”
– - Li Tiantian, upon her release from detention
Li Tiantian: The Fable of the Hornet, the Bird, and the Tortoise | China Digital Times (CDT)
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“A moment of historic irony has arrived.”
– - Chinese microblogger, responding to the fact that the name of Fang Binxing, the founder of the Great Firewall, has become a sensitive word online after students threw eggs at him to protest Internet censorship.
Man Behind ‘Great Firewall of China’ Pelted with Eggs | China Digital Times (CDT)
“It’s like this — your family, your wife, won’t let you go out and pick up girls....”
– - Wealthy entrepreneur Guan Hongsheng on his illegal helicopter flying habit
China’s Rich Try to Fly Around Red Tape | China Digital Times (CDT)
Ai Weiwei: 'One of the most daring artists today'... →
See also: Ai Weiwei Visited by Wife on CDT
“It’s like smoking.”
– Professor Xu Xing on his addiction to finding new dinosaur species
“…There is a greater variation in expressions of “Chinese-ness” now...”
– The Useless Tree: Understanding China - or not
“It is not easy to really know China because China is an ancient civilization and...”
– - Chinese Vice Premier Wang Qishan to Charlie Rose (from Business 360 - CNN.com Blogs)
Read more from CDT.
“The masses are the most important and purest source of intelligence.”
– Yang Guangwei, political commissar of the Shaoxing Domestic Security Department. China’s Sharper Focus on Internal Security | China Digital Times
“Every evening from 7 to 7:30, I must watch Xinwen Lianbo (CCTV primetime news)...”
– - Former Premier Zhu Rongji at Tsinghua University’s Centenary Celebration
Our Maverick Premier Takes an Alma Mater Bow | China Digital Times (CDT)
“It seems China hasn’t had elections for thousands of year but never lacked war!...”
– -A netizen responds to Global Times editor Hu Xijin’s commentary about “China’s path to democracy.”
“Either Democratize or Don’t”: Netizens Respond to Hu Xijin’s “Path to Democracy” | China Digital Times (CDT)
“Xinhua reports that SARFT has ordered the suspension of all spy and criminal...”
– CMP Newswire - China Media Project
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“Al Qaeda once sent five terrorists to China: One was sent to blow up a bus, but...”
– Chinese joke posted by the New Yorker’s Evan Osnos.
Read about reactions in China to news that Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden has been killed by U.S. forces. 