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October 24, 2005

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Daily linklets 24th October

The convention of friendship between Britain and China. What's a bit of opium between friends?
Last week East Asia was declared the hardest place in the world to be a reporter. But let's get more specific. It's not easy even covering the traffic beat in Taizhou, where the police are the vigilantes!
A practical solution to the North Korean refugee problem.
Well known Chinese blogger Anti has set up Anti's English blog.
The rise of Chinese tourists. Will provides the story behind the story.
The chopstick theory of scientific supremacy.
This is too much: the Hello Kitty plane.
CDT has links to several reviews of Chang and Halliday's Mao book, including one by leading neo-con Nicholas Kristof. Roger Simon nicely fisks Kristof's review. You can also vote for CDT in the Deutsche Welle Best of the Blogs award.
Korea - Asia's toilet hub.
A court in Zhengzhou experiments with precedents. There's also a report of the uneven distribution of lawyers in China. The obvious answer: export some of America's surplus to the Chinese countryside!
Beijing says it would shut its borders to stop bird flu. No idea of exactly how long after the bird flu is identified before they got around to closing the border, but they'll do it eventually.
A "true story" from Taishi.
A lifetime in recovery from the cultural revolution.
Australia becomes Asian.
And now for something completely different: 2,000 years of bizarre sex advice.
China's currency reform has long been controversial....since 1350 at least!
China changes how it counts its unemployed.
A guide for getting married in China. Related is the story of Li Fengjin and the new marriage laws.
Google was responsible for the lifting of the Blogspot China block.
Todd Crowell on Hong Kong's political reforms being the best deal democrats could expect.
Yale accused of discrimination by Chinese graduate students.
Donald Rumsfeld's ~~trojan~~ Mongol horse.
Rebecca MacKinnon talks on China and the internet, saying change goes both ways.

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Howard French has written a review on the Mao book.

http://www.howardwfrench.com/archives/2005/10/24/putting_a_knife_into_heart_of_the_chairmans_legend/

posted by: sun bin on 10.25.05 at 03:47 AM [permalink]