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Internet Helps Liberate, Create Music in China : NPR Music - 0 views

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shared by isaac Mao on 26 Jun 08 - Cached
  • When America was rocking to the Beatles and Jimi Hendrix, the airwaves in China were dominated by songs with lyrics from Chairman Mao's Little Red Book.
  • isaac Mao on 26 Jun 08
     
    Internet Helps Liberate, Create Music in China By Laura Sydell Listen Now [7 min 48 sec] add to playlist Chinese electronic musician B6 B6, a Shanghai-based electronic musician, explored Western music first on pirated CDs and then at music-sharing sites on the Web. Now he collaborates online with other performers. B6's studio equipment -- a jumble of keyboards, etc. Enlarge B6 works out of a home studio in a Shanghai high-rise. Above, some of his musical arsenal. Discover China's Indie Music Neocha Web site image Neocha.com With Sean Leow, B6 co-founded the music-sharing site Neocha.com, an ad-supported service that lets listeners discover music and pays musicians a share of advertising revenue. * Neocha.com * Neocha's "Next" Player Morning Edition, June 25, 2008 - Second in a three-part series. When America was rocking to the Beatles and Jimi Hendrix, the airwaves in China were dominated by songs with lyrics from Chairman Mao's Little Red Book. It's more open today, but the Communist government still bans anything that mentions sex or violence, or that has "low class humor" - which bans an awful lot of American music. So the music most likely to come pouring out of the radio in China is syrupy ballads usually produced in Hong Kong or Taiwan. But Chinese musicians and fans are finding a whole new universe of sound on the Internet. And it's helping to create and nourish a new generation of independent artists in China. From Black-Market Discs to Napster and Beyond One of them is B6, a 27-year-old electronic musician. He lives and works on the first floor of a high-rise on the outskirts of Shanghai. He's part of China's burgeoning electronic-music scene. Growing up, the CDs B6 listened to were mostly sold on the black market. "When I was in high school, I used to listen to rock 'n' roll music," he says. "At that time, it was very difficult to get foreign or Western music." And then, in 1999, the Internet came to China - and B6 and his fr
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Beijing spending 45 billion RMB on pro-China international news network - Shanghaiist: ... - 0 views

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shared by isaac Mao on 13 Jan 09 - Cached
  • So apparently the controversies in international media this summer over China and the Olympics came as a bit of a shock to the Chinese people. While the government's retained tight control over its own media, it's been less able to harmonize those pesky news outlets abroad. Not one to take perceived insults to its national image lying down, Beijing is now throwing RMB 45 billion into targeting global audiences.
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Mutant Palm » Blog Archive » Chinese & Western Overreactions to Charter 08 - 0 views

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  • On the other hand, I’ve seen no one addressing the questions of actual political and bureaucratic process. What comes first? Elections in major urban centers like Shanghai, a sort of Special Democratic Zone? Loosening of Internet controls? Judiciary reform? Privatization of state media? Releasing political prisoners? Local officials already abuse existing structures, how much more will they abuse transitional processes? If you don’t want a revolution, then there has to be some sort of proposed process that the current government can work with and Chinese citizens can feel both moves reform forward and doesn’t threaten to unravel society. If you don’t say anything about how you might accomplish such a thing, but simply describe the end result in which the government becomes something unrecognizable from the existing one, you may not have explicitly called for its overthrow but you sure didn’t call for something else instead. Not to mention its difficult not to see it as just a wish list. Anybody can make a wishlist - who’s going to do the real work?
  • I think the commenter who asks whether Charter 08 is really calling for a revolution has a point, and it’s not fair to riposte “well, if this all happened it would be revolutionary”. It wouldn’t be if the changes happened gradually or in a controlled and orderly way (as they did in other countries). The party itself, after all, keeps promising political reform, and many of the people who support it so heartily do so on the assumption that it is serious about eventually keeping that promise. The people I spoke to (and quoted) did not think this was a substitute for tackling concrete real life issues, but thought it important to have a framework within which to do so.
  • Notice, also that I said a “revolution of the system of government”. Not the government, the system. The problems I’m referring to is that when the system, the way things are done, from paying your electricity bill to detemining holders of public office, changes radically, 180 degrees, then there can be terrible consequences. How should one try to avoid those consequences? How can you make the transition smoothly? These are the things that ought to be discussed, and these are the things that will persuade people that your ideals can actually be realized. That might get you a groundswell of demand for change - abstract philosophical manifestos, though, don’t cut it.
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Chinese Visa Sticky ... - Thorn Tree Travel Forum - Lonely Planet - 0 views

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  • Now that the Olympics has been handed on to London, should Britain in turn make visas difficult for Chinese nationals? Allow 15 days only. Apply at Shanghai British Consulate/Embassy between the hours of 9.00 – 10.00 am in person, Mondays only. No agents. The possibilities are infinite. They might even ban all foreigners from the Olympics and give Britain a chance for more gold medals.
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China's mobile revolution: the rise of 3G technology - Times Online - 0 views

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  • The State Administration for Radio, Film and Television has already issued five licences for mobile television services to a privileged group of state-owned broadcasters, including China Central Television (CCTV), the Shanghai Media Group and the Southern Media Group. These will sell content to the mobile operators, ensuring political censorship over the free flow of multimedia content. Whatever the format, the Communist party has given no sign it intends to relax its vigilance over what Chinese viewers can watch.
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陈良宇案破了"上海神话" - 0 views

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shared by Andre Li Pan on 17 Apr 08 - Cached
  • 中国过去十几年里腐败大案要案时有发生，基本原因乃是：中国的经济持续高速发展，因此可供攫取的财富逐年增多；社会处于体制转型的曲折过程中，法规和政策多变且不甚清楚，因此容易让操作者有意无意地越界越轨；实权部门高度集权，关键的日常操作权力又通常集中在“一把手”的手里，因此有滥用职权的机会；同时，即便发现了手握实权的个别官员滥用职权的严重问题，有时也不能及时依法查办，不能依法处理，也不能及时地通过媒体将其蛛丝马迹曝光，难以引起高层机关的重视及追究。
  • 在所有这些经济社会发展特征和体制转型的难关方面，上海与中国其他地区相比，并无天差地别的区别，当然在一些方面有程度的不同。因此，上海的反贪廉政建设与中国其他地区相比，只可能有某些方面和程度的不同，而不可能有实质的巨大区别，不能认为中共中央每年重申的反腐廉政建设的任务，对上海完全不适用。如果近年来别的地方时有中级乃至高级干部的违纪犯法案件被曝光查处，上海多年里却一件都没有，那也许说明，上海的严重违纪犯法问题被掩盖了，少数贪污腐败的中级或高级干部受到的监管太弱、受到的保护太强。
  • 果然，新华社的消息揭示，陈良宇的违纪犯法行为，早在1988年就开始了。
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RGE - Ut-oh! Is China starting to blame the US for its currency losses? - 0 views

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shared by evawoo on 26 Apr 08 - Cached
  • It is commonly argued that growing economic ties tend to create common interests that will reduce tension between nations (see FT's Alphaville). The enormous amount China has lent to the US -- a total that the US data (which tends to underestimate Chinese holdings) now puts above $1 trillion -- will, according to this view, prevent other sources of conflict from getting out of hand. Alas, relations between creditors and debtors are rarely quite so free of tension. Creditors want to get paid back in full. Debtors would rather pay back at little as possible. Mei Xinyu, a senior researcher under the Chinese commerce ministry writing in a personal capacity for the Shanghai Daily, argues that China needs to put pressure on the US at the Strategic Economic Dialogue to do more defend the dollar. With the dollar at 1.60 against the euro, it isn't hard to see why. Mei goes on to argue that if the US doesn't do more to defend the dollar, it is effectively defaulting on China.
  • Mei's complaint, in other words, should be directed in part at China's own policy makers. When they bought long-term US dollar-denominated debt they took the risk that the dollar would depreciate over time. They effectively gave the US the option to pay China back in depreciated dollars. What's more, they didn't charge a premium for the option. That was China's own choice. China wanted to keep the RMB down even if that meant over-paying for US assets.
  • China, for complicated reasons, has decided to lend to the US in US dollars and to lend to Europe in euros and pounds. China's European lending - incidentally -- could prove to be as risky as lending to the US in dollars; SAFE and the CIC are really over paying for euros.
  • evawoo on 26 Apr 08
     
    中美经济关系的精辟分析
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