Archive for the ‘China in General’ Category

China is going to build a moon rocket

Wednesday, August 11th, 2010

A catchy title for a news story where details are pretty much in the dark. The news seems to be, that China has either started researching, or maybe agreed upon, or maybe implemented financing, or something else of a heavy lift rocket capable of sending humans to the moon. The ...

China? Where the hell is China?

Monday, August 9th, 2010

What surprised me for quite a while is that people are completely not interested or at least uninformed about anything related to China. I'm talking about random people here in Germany, but I guess it is also true for other people from Europe and maybe other places as well. If ...

Chinese space plans includes a third space station

Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010

I have previously talked a lot about the Chinese space program, because I love looking at space stations as much as watching an emotional football match. I just stumbled at this outline of the Chinese manned spaceflight, which details the previous and future Chinese manned space program. It's from October ...

Pornography should be Legal in China – Signed!

Friday, March 5th, 2010

The blog China Divide just made a case for legalizing pornography in China: Pornography should be legal in China. Before I comment about the details I just want to add my signature. Junjie supports that case. Signed! Healthy sex life in China 加油! Help doctor, my sex life is not harmonious! Since ...

WoW players against harmony

Saturday, February 13th, 2010

网瘾战争 - War of internet addiction I just watched this movie created by WoW players (World of Warcraft) from China. They used the game to portrait some events that happened during the last few years in China regarding their beloved game and also freedom of speech in general. In the movie ...

How I discovered China

Sunday, January 31st, 2010

It was some day in 1995, or maybe 1996, definitely before Hong Kong became Chinese, I'm not really sure about the exact year, when a life changing decision was made. Not made by myself, as at that time all important decisions were made by my parents for me. My mum ...

Disadvantages of a Chinese name in online discussions

Wednesday, January 27th, 2010

A Chinese name is a must have for any Westerner who visits China. So I was told. I've experimented with some Chinese names, but since then I have given up on using a Chinese name. Although my real European name is hard to pronounce for Chinese, after five minutes of ...

google.cn will show uncensored results or close for good

Wednesday, January 13th, 2010

Yesterday Google made an announcement. They are no longer willing to censor their search results on Google.cn. They want to talk to the government if it is possible to show unfiltered results or close their China operations. On the official Google blog there is a post about the details: A ...

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