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Southern Weekend, China, and the bubble
I don’t consider myself a China expert by any means, but I do feel like I’ve been around long enough to begin seeing some trends. One is the “story of the day’, which comes around every 20-45 days or so and galvanizes the media, China watchers, and progressive Chinese citizens in the hopes of real [...]
Self-censorship in Hong Kong: how prevalent is it?
The Asian American Journalists Association organized a roundtable at the Foreign Correspondents Club tonight on self-censorship in Hong Kong, an issue which is prescient in light of the recent Chief Executive election, national education protests, scandals involving coverage in the South China Morning Post, the increasing “Mainlandization” of Hong Kong, and upcoming Legco elections. Make [...]
Hu Jintao’s visit highlights Hong Kong’s dystopian future
We’re fortunate in Hong Kong to be largely out-of-reach of the more Communist element of the People’s Republic. While going to work in Beijing meant passing guards dressed in green military garb, the PLA is almost totally invisible in Hong Kong. Here, people are free to criticize China, mourn those who died on June 4, [...]
What’s wrong with the SCMP?
The venerable Hong Kong English daily South China Morning Post has found itself at the center of a storm over the past few days after an email exchange between Mainland-born editor Wang Xiangwei and senior sub-editor Alex Price was made public. Asia Sentinel gives us a recap, and notes it all began after Price questioned [...]
Yang Rui’s “Kinsley gaffe”
I’ve been closely following the developments regarding CCTV Dialogue host Yang Rui, not least because I was a former editor at CCTV 9 and frequently bumped into Yang while I was in the building. I say “bumped into” because that’s about all it was; Yang never actually entered the CCTV 9 newsroom as far as [...]
