Chinese Chat The Independent: MEDIA: Chinese whispers
Chris Patten would be tearing his hair out. After all the former Hong Kong governor's efforts to ensure the territory's smooth transition from British colony to a region of China, a group of British journalists is hell bent on scandalising local society.They have launched a mischievous satirical magazine catering for the expatriate community, in which they have depicted the Hong Kong chief executive, Tung Chee-hwa, as a monkey and lampooned the sayings of local...
Chinese Chat Rooms Denounce U.S.
Haikou, China-Chinese chat rooms buzzed with denunciations of the United States after the collision on Sunday of an American spy plane and a Chinese fighter jet. Some of the comments that deluged a newly created chat room on one of China's most visited Web sites, Sina.com, showed the writers' nationalist anger, reminiscent of the reactions after the United States mistakenly bombed the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, in 1999."We should respect...
Chinese Chat Zhao Ziyang: the death of a nonperson
HONG KONG -- While it seems unlikely that the death of China's former leader Zhao Ziyang will provoke mass unrest, the way in which it is being handled indicates the profound official insecurity still aroused by the mass unrest in 1989. "Zhao Ziyang Passes Away: Comrade Zhao had long suffered from multiple diseases affecting his respiratory and cardiovascular systems, and had been hospitalized for medical treatment several times. His condition worsened recently and he...
Chinese Chat Interview: Xiao Qiang discusses China's attempts to suppress any mention on the Internet of the death of former Chinese Premier Zhao Ziyang
ROBERT SIEGEL, host: I'm Robert Siegel.MICHELE NORRIS, host: And I'm Michele Norris. This is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News.SIEGEL: News of the death of China's onetime premier and party chief, Zhao Ziyang, has been received in radically different ways by officials in Washington and in Beijing. Zhao, according to White House spokesman Scott McClellan, was a man of moral courage who suffered great personal sacrifices for standing by his...
PICK OF THE NIGHT
Red Storm: China's Cultural Revolution (SBS, 7.30pm) This Emmy Award-winning show may take a little getting used to. Using Chinese archive material, it begins with the propaganda of Chairman Mao Zedung (pictured) blaring at you, followed by what looks like a Chinese chat-show host, before settling into a more familiar documentary style. It is worth persisting with, because there is such a wealth of material, much of it previously unseen by western eyes. The program provides a...