Tag Archives: China

The Great Donkey Meat – Tiger Piss – Media Whore Axis

Posted on September 8, 2005 by Will Moss

Trust me, it all connects. Americans just don’t understand the reality of Chinese food. Mu shu pork, general’s chicken, all that Chinese restaurant crap you get in the US, has almost no relation to anything you can get in China. … Continue reading →

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Do you, uh, Yahoo? You’re busted!

Posted on September 8, 2005 by Will Moss

Do you, uh, Yahoo? Not, one would hope, if you’re a Chinese dissident or journalist on the wrong side of the authorities. It seems that American technology companies can’t stay out of trouble in China. The last two days has … Continue reading →

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Dark table tennis match of the soul

Posted on August 22, 2005 by Will Moss

The Western stereotype of Chinese people, and Asians in general, is that they are inscrutable. This is balls. They are as scrutable as anyone else. Thick face, black heart; Art of War; it all feeds the mythology. As one of … Continue reading →

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Why I empathize with the WSJ’s American expats in Chongqing

Posted on August 4, 2005 by Will Moss

An interesting discussion broke out today on The Peking Duck, in Richard’s post on a Wall Street Journal article on the travails of an American expatriate family living in Chongqing. There was a fair bout of criticism of the family … Continue reading →

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Why American tech companies betrayed me, not China

Posted on July 4, 2005 by Will Moss

American technology companies are helping China censor the Internet. I am angry and disappointed — probably more than the Chinese people actually affected. Yet, in a world full where corporate amorality is often taken for granted, why does this bother … Continue reading →

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Sanitized For My Protection: Imagethief’s Self-Censorship Policy Explained

Posted on June 4, 2005 by Will Moss

In a recent comment, an old friend of mine posed a very interesting question: Do you think much about where the “line in the sand” is for you personally? Just how far can you take criticism of China in your … Continue reading →

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The abstraction of diplomacy and the reality of rocks through windows

Posted on April 17, 2005 by Will Moss

From my blog reading, some of the widespread conclusions about the ongoing stream of anti-Japanese protests in China are: The nominal grievances, Japan’s textbooks that gloss over culpability for wartime atrocities and generally insufficient post-war contrition, are, in reality, minor. … Continue reading →

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The strange medical odyssey of Tiny Cat

Posted on March 19, 2005 by Will Moss

As regular readers know, I had to pay USD$600 in shady cat-graft to get my two, dime-a-dozen Singapore drain cats, Tiny and Xiao Xiong, out of Chinese kitty Stalag when they first arrived in China. (How’s that for your Foreign … Continue reading →

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A scholarly analysis of the economics of PR in China

Posted on March 6, 2005 by Will Moss

It occurs to me that, despite having been a Beijing PR professional for six months, I have yet to write anything about working in Beijing, as opposed to just living here. So let me tackle that by talking about one … Continue reading →

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In praise of Google in China

Posted on January 26, 2005 by Will Moss

The BBC’s website is blocked but many international apartment buildings get BBC World. My colleague was watching the BBC in her Beijing apartment this morning when a report on Google’s agreement to censor key words and sites via its upcoming … Continue reading →

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