http://waterink.net Pin Lu's Blog Thu, 03 Nov 2011 20:58:15 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en My review of Henry Kissinger's On China for China Today. This was written in Chinese and later translated into English. On China Author: Henry Kissinger 608 pages, hardcover £30.00 Published by Allen Lane in the UK on 17 May 2011 HENRY Kissinger's latest book, On China, an ambitious combination of his memoirs as a professional diplomat ... http://waterink.net/2011/11/03/henry-kissingers-on-china/ My review of Jonathan Watts's book When a Billion Chinese Jump for China Today. This was written in Chinese and later translated into English. When A Billion Chinese Jump: How China Will Save Mankind – Or Destroy It Author: Jonathan Watts 496 pages, paperback £8.46 Published by Faber and Faber THE book's title comes from a ... http://waterink.net/2011/09/10/when-a-billion-chinese-jump/ Like in many other countries, people in China are fascinated and confused by the sudden riots on the street of London. My comments on the breakout of the violence have been translated into English by Global Voice (although they got my name wrong). What directly led to these riots was that ... http://waterink.net/2011/08/14/rioting-without-a-cause/ Last week I wrote here that China’s twitter equivalent, Weiboc.om, won a small victory over the censors in reporting the high speed train crash at Wenzhou, Zhejiang. Many factors such as the location and time of the crash contributed to the fast-moving reporting from eyewitnesses and the slow response of ... http://waterink.net/2011/08/01/the-empire-strikes-back/ I learned in Saturday afternoon the news of a train crash in China’s Zhejiang province from weibo.com, China’s equivalent of Twitter. There are quite a few twitter copycats in China but Sina’s Weibo, literally means ‘min-blogging’ is the most influential one. It’s since became the primary source for me ... http://waterink.net/2011/07/25/a-small-victory-for-weibo/ Ok I admit it's over simplified and not fair. But since all parties have seemingly embraced social media, I guess it's not too unfair to squeeze put them in on tweet. UKIP: I hate Europe! BNP: I hate foreigners! SNP: It's English's fault! Cameron: No more Brown! Clegg: Look at me! Brown: I agree with Nick http://waterink.net/2010/04/20/general-election-in-one-tweet/ Today is the beginning of the Year of Tiger. Hold on, I hear you say, isn't the 14 Feb this year's the Chinese New Year Day? Well, you are right. Chinese calendar is a lunar calendar, which means the date of new year's day in relation to western calendar always changes. ... http://waterink.net/2010/02/04/year-of-tiger-begins/ If you want more Mary-Jess Leaverland vidoes, now you can watch her interview with BBC Chinese. It started in Mandarin but most part of interview were conducted in English. And she sang, in Mandarin. http://waterink.net/2010/02/02/mary-jess-leaverland-interview-on-bbc-chinese/ OK, for those of you wondering what's the fuss about, here are the vidoes of Mary-Jess Leaverland, who is on the front page of today's Guardian. Her victory in a "Chinese X Factor" competition is reported by several papers (Telegraph, Daily Mail, and Sun). The TV singing competition is called Min ... http://waterink.net/2010/01/19/mary-jess-leaverland-videos/ On Twitter many people dismissed Global Times's survey that 70% of its visitors support Chinese government against Google, who had just abandoned the self-imposed censorship on Google.cn and threated to close its business in China altogether. The sad truth is that those who have made the effort of climbing over the ... http://waterink.net/2010/01/13/will-google-cn-die/