"The anti-Americanism of Jackie Chan."

"He is passionately political, a staunch defender of the Chinese Communist Party and harsh critic of anyone he sees as opposing Beijing...

"If you occasionally buy this product, please kindly resend this letter to the World Human Right Organization."

"Thousands people here who are under the persicution of the Chinese Communist Party Government will thank and remember you forever....

"It’s high time we demolish this unconstitutional and abusive system that violates basic human rights, fuels instability and smears the government’s image."

An end to China's system of re-education-through-work camps? Liu Jie, 60, a former business executive from Heilongjiang Province, served...

"So do Chinese netizens really believe that a body double was used to shield Gu..."

"... or do they simply want to express their mistrust of the judicial system and of the authorities in general?"

"Culture Does Matter," writes Mitt Romney.

In National Review , pushing back efforts to make it seem racist to say that nations prosper when their culture has certain qualities that I...

"Nothing in the world will allow me to become a Sheng Nu."

The term refers to  "all single woman above the age of 27" and means "unwanted." "Men don't want a woman over 3...

5,000 ducks.

Walking in the road, stopping traffic.

"When we dug down to about 80 meters deep, we fished out this long, fleshy object. It’s got a nose and an eye, but we have no idea what it is!"

Great moments in Chinese television. “As we can all see, this looks like a type of fungus, on both ends of which you’ll find mushroom heads....

"Feng was not forced to abort... A lot of us tried for days to educate her. She agreed to the abortion herself."

China's one-child policy. ADDED: In The New Yorker: China convulsed this week around the story of Feng Jianmei, a twenty-three-year-old ...

The theme of the opening ceremony for the London Olympics is "green and pleasant."

We will see a representation of "the mythical British countryside: meadows, maypoles, picnicking families, toiling farmers, cricketers...

"I think art is a very important weapon to achieve human freedom."

"Freedom of expression is a very essential condition for me to make any art. Also, it is an essential value for my life. I have to prot...

"It's certain the woman was not dead when buried."

Say Chinese police , in the case of a couple accused of hitting an elderly woman and then burying the (not dead) body.

"‘New York University' Is Added to China’s List of Banned Internet Search Terms."

"Last week, NYU’s law school offered the blind civil-rights lawyer Chen Guangcheng a visiting-scholar position.... Other terms banned.....

Photos of the Kowloon Walled City.

It's hard to believe this place was real. It's so much like sets from a fascinating dystopian movie.

Crackdown on blog commenting.

In China: The moves are among the most dramatic censorship efforts undertaken by Beijing since the rise over the past two years of the popul...

"Making people care" — Mike Daisey's justification for folding fake drama into a more or less true story.

David Carr analyzes the theater/journalism borderline , looking at Daisey's "The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs" (the sub...

"Vast, unidentified, structures have been spotted by satellites in the barren Gobi desert..."

"... raising questions about what China might be building in a region it uses for its military, space and nuclear programmes." In ...

"Are China’s Rulers Getting Religion?"

Asks Ian Johnson: ...China is now in the grips of a moral crisis. In recent months, the Chinese Internet has been full of talk about the lac...

If Obama wants a "Nixon goes to China" opportunity, here it is!

Instapundit has this: NPR: New Boom Reshapes Oil World, Rocks North Dakota. “Two years ago, America was importing about two thirds of its o...

Mooncake.

It's the fruitcake of China.