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Patrick Brown Former Bureau Chief CBC Beijing.
(One reason I did 豆棚閑話 for the dissertation was that I love what it does to legendary loyalists. The retelling of the Bo Yi and Shu Qi story is a highlight, but he also singles out "blowhards from Suzhou" (蘇州空頭) among his contemporaries - especially the ones who meet on Tiger Hill.)
March 11, 2025 at 8:01 PM
A splendid idea for grim times!
The first episode of my new Rhyming Chaos Podcast with @chinaheritage.bsky.social on parallels between moments of great change in recent Chinese history and the coup underway in the United States.
These are some of the lessons we can learn about the Musk-Trump takeover from Mao and Xi's China:
These are some of the lessons we can learn about the Musk-Trump takeover from Mao and Xi's China:
How to commit a self-coup, in the U.S. and in China, with Geremie Barmé
What recent Chinese history can teach us about the Musk-Trump power grab
www.goldkorn.world
February 21, 2025 at 4:55 PM
A splendid idea for grim times!
Plus ça change....
February 8, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Plus ça change....
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Someone needs to do an American version of @chinadigitaltimes.net Minitrue series on censorship directives.
Direction of travel: 焚書坑儒
Direction of travel: 焚書坑儒
BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed.
Goes beyond MMWR +other CDC pubs. Applies to research already submitted to top medical journals.
Take a look.
open.substack.com/pub/insideme...
Goes beyond MMWR +other CDC pubs. Applies to research already submitted to top medical journals.
Take a look.
open.substack.com/pub/insideme...
BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed.
Any unpublished manuscript mentioning certain topics, including gender and "LGBT," must be pulled or revised.
open.substack.com
February 1, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Someone needs to do an American version of @chinadigitaltimes.net Minitrue series on censorship directives.
Direction of travel: 焚書坑儒
Direction of travel: 焚書坑儒
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“While we deeply appreciate the offer and are sincerely flattered to be included, we apologize. We must decline. We simply do not have the intestinal fortitude it takes to be American.”
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/can...
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/can...
Canadians Politely Decline Statehood
“Trump threatens ‘economic force’ to make Canada ‘51st State’ after PM resignation.” — The Independent
- - -America, you know Canada as your hat. W...
www.mcsweeneys.net
January 10, 2025 at 1:39 PM
“While we deeply appreciate the offer and are sincerely flattered to be included, we apologize. We must decline. We simply do not have the intestinal fortitude it takes to be American.”
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/can...
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/can...
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I am here once again to complain about the enshitification of Google search. Maybe AI will kill us, maybe it’ll save us but meantime, it has taken one of mankind’s greatest accomplishments of last 40 years and ruined it.
December 31, 2024 at 2:44 AM
I am here once again to complain about the enshitification of Google search. Maybe AI will kill us, maybe it’ll save us but meantime, it has taken one of mankind’s greatest accomplishments of last 40 years and ruined it.
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“Google it” used to mean a magical power to comb through the world’s databases and sites in an instant. Now it means plunging into a sty of sponsored crap and nonsensical AI results.
December 31, 2024 at 2:46 AM
“Google it” used to mean a magical power to comb through the world’s databases and sites in an instant. Now it means plunging into a sty of sponsored crap and nonsensical AI results.
Does anyone have an up-to-date recommendation for a VPN to use on a trip to China? I'd be grateful for a DM... I could provide an email address for more discretion.
December 10, 2024 at 5:41 PM
Does anyone have an up-to-date recommendation for a VPN to use on a trip to China? I'd be grateful for a DM... I could provide an email address for more discretion.
Finally, a useful take on the US election...
Trump's re-election disappointed many in the U.S. and abroad. To help them process, Jeremiah and David talk with literary translator and Pennsylvania voter @bokane.org about Zhang Dai, the Ming-Qing transition, and living through an age of upheaval.
blubrry.com/barbarians/1...
blubrry.com/barbarians/1...
What can the end of the Ming Dynasty tell us about the election of Donald Trump and wha…
A podcast of Chinese history and Chinese culture
blubrry.com
November 12, 2024 at 4:51 PM
Finally, a useful take on the US election...
Three "Here's what to know" stories on today's NYT front page. The meaningless clickbait tic is spreading. Are the other stories about things we don't need to know?
www.nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com
The New York Times - Breaking News, US News, World News and Videos
Live news, investigations, opinion, photos and video by the journalists of The New York Times from more than 150 countries around the world. Subscribe for coverage of U.S. and international news, poli...
www.nytimes.com
June 10, 2024 at 3:24 PM
Three "Here's what to know" stories on today's NYT front page. The meaningless clickbait tic is spreading. Are the other stories about things we don't need to know?
www.nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com
I made this short documentary ten years ago to mark the 25th anniversary of the massacre in Beijing. It is still valid now 35 years have passed. As many Chinese people say on this day：
永不忘记！永不原谅！ Never forget. Never forgive.
youtube.com/watch?v=iDEt...
永不忘记！永不原谅！ Never forget. Never forgive.
youtube.com/watch?v=iDEt...
The Ghosts of Tiananmen
Patrick Brown explores the legacy of the explosive protests that took place 25 years ago.
youtube.com
June 4, 2024 at 4:13 AM
I made this short documentary ten years ago to mark the 25th anniversary of the massacre in Beijing. It is still valid now 35 years have passed. As many Chinese people say on this day：
永不忘记！永不原谅！ Never forget. Never forgive.
youtube.com/watch?v=iDEt...
永不忘记！永不原谅！ Never forget. Never forgive.
youtube.com/watch?v=iDEt...
Expecting the @nytimes.com universal clickbait headline soon:
"Here's what to know. It's not what you think"
"Here's what to know. It's not what you think"
Gazans are facing a hunger crisis that the UN says borders on famine. The crisis is entirely human-made, aid experts say, with food shortages that have been created by Israel’s blockade and military operations amid its war on Hamas. Here's what to know.
Here’s What to Know About the Hunger Crisis in Gaza
“The food production system has been completely obliterated, and the lack of entry of emergency aid within a short time has created a free fall,” a United Nations official said.
www.nytimes.com
April 12, 2024 at 5:43 PM
Expecting the @nytimes.com universal clickbait headline soon:
"Here's what to know. It's not what you think"
"Here's what to know. It's not what you think"
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New Stories from a Burning House post, on the Qianlong Emperor's cats, who probably didn't exist but were still very good. If you've shared this image, you are required to read the post; I don't make the rules.
www.burninghou.se/p/the-empero...
www.burninghou.se/p/the-empero...
The Emperor's So-Called Cats and the Manjurist Bat-Signal
Live, from the intersection of Too Many Books and Not Enough Cats.
www.burninghou.se
April 7, 2024 at 6:24 PM
New Stories from a Burning House post, on the Qianlong Emperor's cats, who probably didn't exist but were still very good. If you've shared this image, you are required to read the post; I don't make the rules.
www.burninghou.se/p/the-empero...
www.burninghou.se/p/the-empero...
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i forgot to mention this because it came up last minute, but if you're in Vancouver, please tune in to CBC Vancouver (The Early Edition) tomorrow morning around 8:20am to listen to me talk about The Lantern and the Night Moths live on radio :)
March 25, 2024 at 4:44 AM
i forgot to mention this because it came up last minute, but if you're in Vancouver, please tune in to CBC Vancouver (The Early Edition) tomorrow morning around 8:20am to listen to me talk about The Lantern and the Night Moths live on radio :)
Translations of Beowulf illustrate the glorious evolution of the language. John-Clark Levin's new Gen-Z offering is funny af, tbh, and @bokane.org's quote from Allison Killilea's elegant rendering in Corkonian is a reminder of the approach of March 17, for those who celebrate it, so it is.
I'm fond of Allison Killilea's Corkonian translation of "Boyowulf" (boyowulf.home.blog ):
"C’mere to me! Well we’ve all heard of those pure daycent kings of the Spear-Danes from donkeys’ years, and how the mad yokes of princes did alright for themselves...That was some class king, like."
"C’mere to me! Well we’ve all heard of those pure daycent kings of the Spear-Danes from donkeys’ years, and how the mad yokes of princes did alright for themselves...That was some class king, like."
This is incredible. www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/gen...
March 15, 2024 at 10:52 PM
Translations of Beowulf illustrate the glorious evolution of the language. John-Clark Levin's new Gen-Z offering is funny af, tbh, and @bokane.org's quote from Allison Killilea's elegant rendering in Corkonian is a reminder of the approach of March 17, for those who celebrate it, so it is.
Lexicon, a little white book from @cdt.bsky.social is fabulous. Buy it for more than the $5:00 asking price and support China Digital Times' unique contribution to understanding China.
January 5, 2024 at 6:31 AM
Lexicon, a little white book from @cdt.bsky.social is fabulous. Buy it for more than the $5:00 asking price and support China Digital Times' unique contribution to understanding China.
Newly-arrived refugee.... Can anyone share an easy way to import accounts I follow from Xitter? Thanks.
November 5, 2023 at 7:00 PM
Newly-arrived refugee.... Can anyone share an easy way to import accounts I follow from Xitter? Thanks.