Absurdity, Allegory and China

Blogs and tweets are alive with the sound of Google v. China. The bare bones details can be found from hell to breakfast, though a good place to start is Danwei’s Bye bye Google. The chatter right now is incessant, though other than the fact that they’ve pulled the plug on censorship, weighed anchor and [...]

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For anyone who has lived without health care and knows the fear, the agitation, the overwhelming anxiety that comes with being unable to afford to be seen, here is a small poem of terror that I’ve had tucked away on my bookshelf for more than three decades. Although I wish I could say that it [...]

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Back in January I wrote a review of a Diane Rehm interview with John and Doris Naisbitt, authors of China’s Megatrends. I titled my entry The Empire from the Official Tour Bus. I won’t root it up again here, but if you are interested go have a look. It is not the least bit flattering [...]

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There is a good piece by John Leicester in the Seattle Times concerning the former Chinese gymnast, Dong Fangxiao, who won a bronze medal at the Sydney 2000 Olympics: China leaves underage gymnast in the cold. Ms Dong is now at the center of a records falsification storm, abandoned by the officials who most likely [...]

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If you follow this blog you know I am not a fan of Jacques Rogge, the current president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC). He is seen by many – this blogger included – as a CCP lapdog and a free agent who, under the charade of officialdom, always goes to the highest bidder. In [...]

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