My New Column in Popmatters is Accelerated Asia. For the launch piece I tackled Internet Censorship, Tiananmen Square as well as Free Speech in China.
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Yan Sham-Shackleton Online 
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Time for a tour of what’s happening in Asia… May 12th marks an important day in Hong Kong history. Hemlock has announced his intention to run for Chief Executive. This is clearly the best argument yet for full democracy in Hong Kong, now. Chris notes…
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I must say you are not that qualified to comment on China because you know so little about her and you can’t even read Chinese.
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I know it’s a state school and all. But I didn’t know the level of intelligence of students in San Francisco State could be as low as this, “Jack.”
🙂
Yan
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Read your piece on Popmatters….
I’m a Canadian “journalist”/freelancer who studied at Tsinghua last year. I noticed a few things about net censorship in China, and Beijing’s status as the capital makes it the ‘best’ place to witness the censorship apparatus at work.
I did notice that many academics and students desperately tried to find ways to get around the government’s bans, blocked lists, etc. I think many of them felt that they needed access to CNN/BBC/the NY Times otherwise they couldn’t do a lot of their research.
It’s hard to be a political science researcher studying American-Chinese relations if you can’t read American media.
I also wonder what kind of effect SARS will have on government censorship. Arguably, Beijing’s denial that there was a SARS problem on the mainland was one of the reasons why it spread the way it did. Is there greater openness now post-SARS? Or is it just back to the status quo?
ps. Keep up the great work!
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Read your piece on Popmatters….
I’m a Canadian “journalist”/freelancer who studied at Tsinghua last year. I noticed a few things about net censorship in China, and Beijing’s status as the capital makes it the ‘best’ place to witness the censorship apparatus at work.
I did notice that many academics and students desperately tried to find ways to get around the government’s bans, blocked lists, etc. I think many of them felt that they needed access to CNN/BBC/the NY Times otherwise they couldn’t do a lot of their research.
It’s hard to be a political science researcher studying American-Chinese relations if you can’t read American media.
I also wonder what kind of effect SARS will have on government censorship. Arguably, Beijing’s denial that there was a SARS problem on the mainland was one of the reasons why it spread the way it did. Is there greater openness now post-SARS? Or is it just back to the status quo?
ps. Keep up the great work!
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i have the picture of the guy facing off the tanks on my desktop. it is a defining image about the human spirit.
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Yan, I should have put this in the shoutbox but oops it has gone: I’m looking forward to hear what you have to say about the Iraqis and the daily injustice there that could send the most unfeeling folk reeling.
http://www.fotolog.net/nevin/?pid=7735993
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Nevin,
You fail to understand that those people have now been liberated.
Yours
G.W Bush
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Your entry made me think about my own web page. I have a xanga, and I know I have regular readers/subscribers in China. I was thinking about posting some stuff about China and democracy but worry that it would get my Chinese subscribers some unwanted attention. Do you think I’m being paranoid or is it justified?
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