http://www.mutantpalm.org Formerly Musing Under The Tenement Palm Thu, 12 Jun 2008 08:57:25 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I'm @ Hong Kong University for the China Internet Research Conference, and I'll be liveblogging about the panels on the official blog along with John Kennedy, Oiwan Lam and others. I'll also be on Twitter, if it behaves, along with all these other people (if you're attending and your twitter ... http://www.mutantpalm.org/2008/06/12/blogging-from-circ.html From Lian Yue's Blog: From Wang Xiaoshan's: Regular blogging will commence soon. http://www.mutantpalm.org/2008/06/03/the-censors-can-suck-it.html From the Washington Post, April 3rd, after the verdict in the Chi Mak espionage trial: "The Chinese government, in an enterprise that one senior official likened to an "intellectual vacuum cleaner," has deployed a diverse network of professional spies, students, scientists and others to systematically collect U.S. know-how, the officials said." Defense ... http://www.mutantpalm.org/2008/05/02/us-deploys-own-grains-of-sand-strategy.html It's 100 days to the 2008 Beijing Olympics! That can only mean one thing! No, not deteriorating reporting conditions. No, not a countdown ceremony in Nepal, though thats some serious unintentional irony right there. No, not whatever else is being reported. No, it can only mean one thing... ROCK! http://www.mutantpalm.org/2008/04/29/the-final-countdown.html The idea that the Chinese people, as a whole, are engaged in struggle, overcoming shame, or that every individual is responsible for the fate of the nation goes back before the Communist era. Since 1949, these ideas have been intensified, but it didn't start there. And now's a good time ... http://www.mutantpalm.org/2008/04/25/it-aint-easy-being-chinese.html via Hecaitou and Lian Yue, Backtoourmotherland.com. The website calls for Chinese Canadians to renounce their citizenship and provides links on how to do so. It also argues that the Canadian citizenship pledge is unpatriotic for Chinese since one swears allegiance to the Queen of England, who is the chief representative of ... http://www.mutantpalm.org/2008/04/25/back-to-our-motherland.html A word that seems to be cropping quite a bit lately from both Chinese and non-Chinese quarters has been "brainwashing". The Merriam Webster and American Heritage dictionaries give the etymology xi nao (洗脑), the English word first appearing in 1950. In the book Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism: A ... http://www.mutantpalm.org/2008/04/20/brainwashing-in-china-then-and-now.html Rumor floating around on the BBSes, copied from the Ming Pao Daily in Hong Kong (google cache): 昨日一个名叫「我爱榨菜君」的网友发表文章称，于昨日上午6时许乘坐地铁2号线，有4名男子在陆家嘴站上车，「穿着黑西装，面容严肃，非常之一本正经，在车上站成了一排」，然后4人各拿出1个录音机，开始播放「我们支持西藏独立」的录音，还「请大家上飞机时记得携带汽油炸药酒精」等。当时车上乘客不多，无人採取任何行动，4人放完录音就跑到另一车厢。 此外有网友称，有朋友停泊在上海音乐学院门前的汽车被喷涂上藏独字样和符号。 Yesterday a netizen called "I Love Mustard King" posted an article, yesterday morning riding the No.2 metro line, 4 men got on at Liujiazui Station [wearing black suits, solemn expressions, unusually serious, entered the ... http://www.mutantpalm.org/2008/04/19/guerrilla-broadcasts-on-the-shanghai-metro.html Lawyer Peter Scheer has a beef with the Great Firewall in the International Herald Tribune, as well as taking a swipe at foreign law firms practicing in China: At 225 million users and still growing at double-digit rates, China's Internet is a business opportunity so grand and irresistible that it can ... http://www.mutantpalm.org/2008/04/19/scheer-chutzpah.html China has expanded its Internet filtering system to the nation's atmosphere, leaving millions gasping for breath. The new system, called the "Golden Fan Project", utilizes a complex system of fans, vents and tubes to block any "spiritual pollution" from entering the country. Nationalist sentiments about Chinese air have been simmering for ... http://www.mutantpalm.org/2008/04/19/chinese-content-filters-block-air-passages-13-billion-suffocating.html