Notes on Harvard Justice Course Part 3/4
Jan 26,
2010 Quote from the section 3, part I of Justice - What is the right thing to do. Taxation = Taking of Earnings Taking of Earnings = Forced Labor Forced...
Crazy Week in 2010
Jan 15,
2010 No one predicted that we started 2010 in such a chaos way. Following the suspension of many Internet sites in China, Baidu was hacked on Tuesday and stopped serving...
Google's (Right) Choice
Jan 13,
2010 Today's biggest news is Google's blog about stopping censoring its content on Google.cn, and considering quitting from China. I typically don't comment immediately about any news, because often, I...
Freezing Winter for Internet in China
Dec 25,
2009 My friends Lv Xinxin comes from Beijing today and we had a nice lunch with other friends from websites. We chatted a lot about the status of many of...
No Domains for Individuals in China
Dec 15,
2009 In the recent years, regulations come out like jokes. Everyday there are some national level regulations coming out to shock everyone - just like the jokes does, but not...
60 Anniversary of ... Motherland?
Sep 30,
2009 Tomorrow is the so-called "60 anniversary of the motherland". It was called 50 anniversary of the motherland 10 years ago, and people just let it go, but this year,...
Nice Discussion on Politics
Sep 24,
2009 I'd like to draw people's attention to the follow three thread where there is great discussion happening. I admire people's thoughts in the comments section. Please join us if...
Small Cartoon Policeman at Each Website
Sep 15,
2009 My reader ecodelta asked: I have one question. What are those small cartoon police at the bottom of the website? To denounce violation of copyright by TV viewers? Strange.......
Hospital is Badly Needed
Sep 1,
2009 Yifan got fever from Saturday. Not a very big deal - just the typical fever because of getting cold. However, I took the chance to get to a world...
What if Someone Cut my Tree?
Aug 21,
2009 I was asked the question in a family gather in the States on July 4 about "what happens if your neighbor gets to your garden and cut your tree?"...
Second Child For Some Family
Jul 29,
2009 China has implemented the One Child Policy for more than 30 years. I have two brothers, and I am among the last generation to have brothers or sisters in...
Tax Rate in China is Low?
Jul 5,
2009 Just get back from the party. We talked about the tax rate in China, and it gave me the impression that the tax rate in China is low. Business...
Controlling Software is Everywhere
Jun 16,
2009 At client side, all newly shipped PC are required to pre-install a spyware by the government (well. The nature of a software is really about what it does, instead...
Bribe for Driver's License?
May 26,
2009 Many of my friends are trying to get their driver's license. The driver's license exam consists of different stages of exams. Here are my experience: If you want to...
Bad Behavior, Its Reason, and Future
Mar 13,
2009 Under this blog entry Beer Can by the Highway vs Spitting about bad behavior like spitting, traffic rules (jay walking) and pushing in China, Stephen left comments, and I...
The Death of A Citizen
Nov 27,
2008 Yesterday, when I was boarding my flight back to Shanghai, I browsed my Google Reader on my mobile phone, and heard the news that the young man killing 6...
Chinese Government is Like a Company
Oct 12,
2008 Chinese government works completely different from the US government - at least from the organizational perspective. It is more like a company than US government. US Governments are like...
My National ID Duplicated with Another One
Apr 7,
2008 A policeman called me and asked me to go to the police station this morning. The reason is, someone in Guangxi Province sent a post mail to them and...
Security Messures in Radio and TV Station
Mar 4,
2008 Besides the censorship in blogging media, it is not surprising that the security meessures in traditional medias are very stick in China. In this blog entry, I want to...
Current University Students are Different
Dec 18,
2007 I am back from a speech in Shanghai Jiaotong University tonight. This is the second time I visit SJTU this month. I just observe something very different between the...
Hospital in Shanghai
Nov 10,
2007 I just want to update my readers why I paused blog in the last three days. I was in hospital to take care of my mother-in-law. She had a...
Thoughts about Traffic Jam
Sep 22,
2007 Today is a No Car Day in Shanghai, and other 107 cities in China. On the No Car Day, let me write about some thoughts around huge traffic jam...
That is Easy - Easy Solution to Complicated Problems
Sep 9,
2007 I know this is a new addition of the series of articles comments on the recent government policy in China, which is treated a sensitive topics in China. Anyway,...
Yes. I am Very Frustrated
Sep 4,
2007 The "very important meeting" is going to be held soon. To prepare a "good environment" for the meeting, massive websites in China were shutdown. This time, much different from...
Learnt More about How Government Works
Aug 17,
2007 Today, attended a training by the government officials, and learnt many interesting ideas. Share with everyone. The Government has Huge Support for SME (Small and Middle Sized Enterprise) Maybe...
Strengthen the Control of Speech
Jul 29,
2007 Recently, there are several evidence to prove the government is strengthen the control of speech in China. Here are some of them. New Round of Satellite TV Ban Satellite...
Living with Bad Environment?
May 10,
2007 Google is facing big challenges in China. Google was talking about the "don't be evil" philosophy, which I respect a lot. However, how to make it happen in China...
Some Blogs about V2EX
Jan 15,
2007 Just spent some time to use Google Blog Search to get some comments about V2EX, after it is unplugged by the "big guy". Look at the angry people here....
V2EX's Network Cable was Unplugged
Jan 13,
2007 Livid's V2EX is a great Internet application. 3000+ genius Internet developers gathered there to discuss topics related to programming, Internet, and other geek topics. At 4:00 PM, Jan 11,...
I Got a Tax Summary!
Jan 7,
2007 I received a mail - paper based mail. It is from the Tax Bureau of the Shanghai Municipal Government. In the mail is a list of the total tax...
Friend's Dog Killed
Dec 30,
2006 Look at this cute dog: Its name is Ahuang, or Little Yellow. It is my friend's dog. Early this week, it was robbed from his home and was killed....
Coincidence? Maybe Not
Nov 2,
2006 There are some "coincidence" in the Chinese Blogger Conference in Hangzhou. The conference was originally planned to be at a place called Zijingang. One and half day before the...
Second-Generation Identity Card
Jul 15,
2006 Second-generationl Identity Card - the National ID card. I finally took pictures at the Security Office, to get my second generation ID card. I having used the plastic ID...
Escaping from Raffles City
Jun 15,
2006 Just several minutes past 12:00 PM (noon time), the office became very quite. Everyone disappeared - to be more exact, escaped from the office. Only one lady doing the...
Water Mellon for Summer
Jun 4,
2006 There are trunks outside the residential area to sell Water Mellons. I bought one yesterday and one today. They are so sweet. I like it a lot. Although it...
Democracy in Residential Area
Apr 14,
2006 Democracy is a sensitive word. You can not search it in Google, and you can not include it in your blog in MSN Space. However, recently, the residential area...
Pressure at Year End
Dec 27,
2005 End of 2005 marks the enforcement of the ICP license and recordal requirements. This time, it seems they really mean it. In my previous story, I outlined the requirements...
According to Supervisor's Notice
Oct 29,
2005 Notice in metro city This is a typical notice in Shanghai, or in China. The note says: According to Supervisor's notice, this W.C. will be removed I recently...
Real Name Requirement for QQ
Jul 25,
2005 The most popular IM QQ in China has a great feature called QQ Group. It is real time chatting groups integrated in QQ client. Recently, Tecent was asked to...
eCommunity Center in Shanghai
Jul 8,
2005 Shanghai is famous for the strong execution power of the government. I read about the eCommunity Center project on newspaper. It was reported that 400 eCommunity Center will be...
Registration? Claim of Buggage?
Jul 1,
2005 Let me update something that seems important for me but I didn't take too serious about. :-) 1. Registration of blogs. After I registered all my information with the...
My Site is Almost Legal in China
Jun 18,
2005 Tonight, a long Friday night, I don't have too many things to do at around 23:00 in the office. The office is completely empty. Only the small noisy laptop...
Blog Registration in China
Jun 10,
2005 I didn't plan to post a comment on this news until the forth person sent me the link and asked: "Jian Shuo, is it true?" What I can confirm...
Where is my Sense of Safty Today?
Aug 1,
2004 Got an email like this in my email box. I hosted my server (not this blog) at this ISP before. Name of ISP is removed They told me (in...
Blogcn is Down for the Third Time
Jul 27,
2004 Blogcn, the largest blogging service provider, shut down their server again. This time, it seems because of technical difficulties. Image in courtesy of blogcn.com As far as I know,...
How about Starting an Online TV Station?
Jun 21,
2004 I was impressed by Seattle Wireless TV (via Slashdot). It looked like a formal media (or official media) if there is no "Help Sponsor the Show!" text or the...
Blogcn & BlogDriver Shut Down
Mar 13,
2004 Two more blog service provider were shut down after blogbus.com. Now, all of the top three blogs stoped their services now. This is not astonishing at all. To be...
BlogBus.com Blocked
Mar 12,
2004 After I wrote the title, I realized it is not blocked. It was ordered to be shutdown. As one of the three blog service providers (others are blogcn.com and...
How Interviews were Conducted
Mar 1,
2004 I received a series of photos disclosing how an interview were conducted. It seems the picture were taken in a small city. I was curious when I was in...
Satellite Dishes Still Forbidden in China
Jan 8,
2004 To be honest, I am frustrated that I cannot install a satellite dish to receive foreign programs like CNN, NBC in my home. It is explicit illegal to use...
Bugs in the Great Firewall
Jul 8,
2003 To surf on the Internet at home is becoming painful recently. I have to say, I has been driven mad for all the strange behaviors in the great censorship...
Blog*Spot Resumed
Jan 16,
2003 blogspot.com resumed service to China today. It seems there is no relationship with any politics or the reasons that are spread out there on the Internet. Thanks Isaac for...
Blog*Spot Inaccessable in China
Jan 15,
2003 There are lot of discussions in the blogger world around blogspot ban in China again, just as the case of Google in last Sept....
The Great Cyberwall
Nov 19,
2002 Wired News: China's Cyberwall Nearly Concrete "China has developed the largest and most sophisticated IP-blocking and content-filtering system in the world," said Bill Xia, president of Asheville, North Carolina-based...
My Site Remains Illegal in China
Sep 26,
2002 Notice: You are reading an illegal site in China. Today, I received an email from Hichina Corp. (Chinese site). I am their client for domain names. They reminded me...