Beating Up Old Men
The New York Times reported today about a human rights activist who was beaten in a cemetery on tomb-sweeping day. Sun Wenguang, who is 75 years old, went to the cemetery to pay his respects to Zhao...
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"They Beat Me Until I Was Screaming in Pain"
This is an original translation of a part of this post from 24 hour blogbus. What we’ve translated here are the words of a Zhao Xinhua, a housewife whose family was beaten and whose home was destroyed...
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Beating Highlights Racial Tensions in China
Earlier today, ChinaSMACK posted a translation of a popular topic on several Chinese forums: “Hui Minority Beats Lanzhou Chengguan Onto Knees Crying“. Their translation is excellent, and we suggest you...
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"Hitting Others' Cars, Beating People"
Via Zhaomu’s blog, an account of chengguan attacking and beating traffic police in Hankou: Translation “That group of people was very fierce, after beating the traffic police, they said they were going...
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Dark Days for Chinese Journalists
Even as Evan Osnos was writing about the beating of Fang Xuanchang, an editor at Caijing magazine, renowned investigative journalist Wang Keqin was posting on his blog about the beating of another...
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Guo Degang and China’s Weird Celebrity Standards
Guo Degang, if you don’t already know, is a famous Chinese xiangsheng comedian who has recently found himself embroiled in a bit of a scandal involving one of his students and a BTV reporter who the...
View ArticleIn Brief: Behind the Crackdown on Foreign Journalists
Members of international media in China have been intimidated, detained and beaten while reporting on the ‘strolling protests’, inspired by revolutions in North Africa and the Middle East, in major...
View ArticlePolice Violence, Public Anger, and the Local as National
I guess it’s just one of those days. This morning saw the rise of incident 1, which was the most-searched for item on Baidu when I checked. This evening, news of incident 2 is spreading quickly via a...
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Guest Post: A Violent Side
From the Beijing News about a patient who attacked his doctor. The following is a guest post by Elliot Ward. A spate of recent stories points to part of China’s modern conundrum where seething...
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