A peculiar hybrid of personal journal, dilettantish punditry, pseudo-philosophy and much more, from an Accidental Expat who has made his way from Hong Kong to Beijing to Taipei and finally back to Beijing for reasons that are still not entirely clear to him...
I’ll be away on business for the rest of the week. If your comments don’t appear, be patient. It may take me an entire day to get to anything held up in the spam filter. Feel free to use this as an open thread.
Below is a guest post by my friend in Taiwan Bill Stimson. This post doesn’t necessarily reflect my own viewpoint on the subject. There are a few points, in fact, that I’d take issue with, though I agree with the piece in spirit.
Information Imperialism?
by William R. Stimson
What if the Chinese government stopped lying to its [...]
On January 5 I started to write a post about an interview I heard on NPR’s always excellent Diane Rehm show with John Naisbitt, the author of the famous book Megatrends, and his wife Doris, who were there to plug their new book, China’s Megatrends: The 8 Pillars of a New Society. (You [...]
According to our usual source out west, it just might be:
As of midnight last Friday, February 5th, it was announced that 27 more “outside Xinjiang†websites have been opened in addition to the four sites that were already accessible. After spending this past weekend searching over all these sites I can tell you that progress [...]
Still busy, but wanted to get this on the record. When will this guy get a knock on the door in the middle of the night? You have to admire his chutzpah:
Do you know why China cannot become a grand cultural nation? It is because most of the time when we speak, we say “Dear [...]
We haven’t heard from this blogger for a long time. His new post reminds us what he’s been depriving us of. A taste:
A number of Western media outlets — including many that should really know better – have speculated that the decision was motivated by “fears of unrest,†pointing to a few people online who [...]
This is a guest post from former commenter t-co - a name that in all likelihood only the earliest readers will remember. T-co is Chinese, has lived and worked in China and will be working for a strategy consulting firm later this fall. This post does not necessarily reflect the opinions of TPD.
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Both empirically [...]
This is a sad post to write. Mark Anthony Jones died of cancer last November, according to a knowledgable friend. My guess is that he was in his mid-30s [update: someone has written to me was closer to 40].
As long-time readers know, Jones, or “Madge,” as we often called him, was my bete-noire for years. [...]
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