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June 06, 2005

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Daily linklets 6th June

Spirit Fingers has written about something that's been puzzling me for a while: why the hell are Disney princesses considered fashionable clothing for middle-aged Hong Kong women? On the flipside, both JC and PB can proudly point to their trendsetting abilities. But they'll be heartbroken to learn the end of Toy Story 2 isn't what it seems.
Will China's Democracy be 30 years in coming as Deng Xiapong predicted?
Next time you are leaning against the wall in Lan Kwai Fong, you can allude to some literary history...
Imagethief writes about censorship and self-censorship of bloggers in China.
Every economy that has caught up with the west since WW2 is in East Asia, with the exceptions of China and north Korea. China's institutional shortcomings stand in its way and its long term prosperity can only come from home. But it doesn't matter, the China century has finished 95 years early (via Horses' Mouth)
Orville Schell writes about the struggle for China's soul between two very different mentalities: the confident and the victim (via OxBlog).
ASEAN can learn from the AU.
The differences in meaning of finger chopping Japan and Korea.
Some reviews of Jung Chang and Jon Halliday's new Mao biography.
China is moving to stop the trading of human organs. But why stop it? If a consenting adult agrees then why restrict their rights to trade? In many ways the same arguements apply to prostitution.
Compare and contrast: Donald Rumsfeld muses about China's rising threat and Xinhua re-interprets the remarks as saying the opposite.
Rajan isn't impressed with the Western media's diefication of Anwar Ibrahim.
Rajan also has a warning for those planning to defect from a totalitarian state. Jing does a bit of digging into the defector's claims.
A first-hand report from Hong Kong's June 4th vigil, plus Asiapundit's massive collection of links of those remembering Tiananmen.
Sin City (potentially unauthorised version) reviewed.
Mr B is off to the 3rd Annual Nigerian email conference.
Behind the scenes of MasaManiA.
Where is the outrage? Zhang Ziyi flushed down the toilet! ESWN points out the differing standards of who can and cannot be flushed.
Marmot says North Korea is going to finish the Ryugyong Hotel with some South Korea taxpayer money. This hotel is a very special place for me. Back in September 2004 I linked a piece on the Ryugyong Hotel by the excellent Shape of Days blog. I still get several visits a day via that post. I really don't know why.
(13:02) Bill Rice says the US centre of gravity is shifting in Asia towards India with firm support for Japan and Australia while continuing to "contain" China. Pundita looks at America's foreign policy debate over China.
Dinocrat sees the seeds of the CCP's destruction from China's economic development.
Today's cool website: The baby name wizard's Name Voyager - type in a name and see how it's popularity has changed over time (via Freakonomics blog).
(15:21) The political economy of Korean love hotels, or why affairs can be good for family life.
India is missing a golden opportunity in the textile game.
Dan Washburn is setting up Shanghaiist.com, similar to the Gothamist set of sites, and is looking for help. It sounds promising. Maybe they should "hook-up" with Shanghai Craiglist.
(18:07) What do China's internet censors do at night? Why they hunt for non-registered sites.

posted by Simon on 06.06.05 at 06:47 PM in the Daily linklets category.

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That was a cool link to the baby names thing. My daughter's name was actually quite the thing in the 1910's!

posted by: RP on 06.06.05 at 10:08 PM [permalink]