Absurdity, Allegory and China

If you want to go to Beida (Beijing [Peking] University), want something else. That, too, is now off-limits. Who’s next? Someone needs to come up with a list, start a pool and turn this into a contest. I’d do it, but my organizational skills are truly number ten. But I still think it’s a good [...]

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I cannot begin to adequately describe just how deeply goofy things are getting here. As the Olympic clock ticks down – actually more burning fuse than ticking clock – things are coming unraveled. Yesterday on CCTV-5 (China Central Television), the official ChiCom sports channel, in the middle of a program renaming the channel The [...]

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