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No critic has so publicly taunted the Communist Party as Ai Weiwei, even as security officers have employed a variety of tactics in a continuing campaign to cow him.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/27/world/asia/first-a-black-hood-then-81-captive-days-for-artist-in-china.html?hp
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Here’s another Koolhaas, the CCTV Building in Beijing. 2008. I’m pretty sure this is not how it actually looks at night, but it was the clearest picture I could find. What a gorgeous transformation of the basic skyscraper:’)
裤子楼
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This is a picture I took last weekend while in Xiamen (廈門), China (中國). This is a common sight in China, yet it still surprises me how much garbage these people can fit onto their bikes whether it be styrofoam, plastic bottles, or in this case, old housing insulation.
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Da Li, Yunnan
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Far East Freaks
Portraits of tattooed and pierced Chinese youth I shot during the Beijing MIDI Festival 2012.
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Guards on Flickr.
Via Flickr:
Curious guards infront of the hospital I’m doing my internship in.
Zhongshan People’s Hospital,Zhongshan,China.
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gpoy: 国贸
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n a video posted on YouTube, Chen confirmed he had escaped, and asked Wen Jiabao, the Chinese premier, to order an investigation into the maltreatment of him and his family by local officials.
“It was not at all easy, but I have escaped,” he said in the video. “Everything that was said on the internet about the violence directed against me […] I’m here to say that it was all true.”
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23 Apr 12 - Shanghai - Lupu Bridge
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Construction on Zaha Hadid’s Galaxy SOHO in Central Beijing Progresses
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and some more! check flickr for more of these soon.
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Check out the tumblr for the new documentary on Chinese artist Ai Weiwei!
Photograph: Top Photo Corporation/Rex Features
The world’s longest tunnel-to-tunnel suspension bridge has opened in China - find out more in our eyewitness photography series
(Source: , via npr)
China puts a gag on social media and makes arrests for coup rumors
操 cào = fuck!
From the Ministry of Tofu:
On the morning of March 31, Sina Weibo users who tried to leave comments received an error message from the system,
“To all Weibo users, recently, comments left by microbloggers have started to contain much illegal and detrimental information, including rumors. In an effort to clean them up in one stroke, comments function of Sina Weibo will be temporarily disabled from 8 a.m. March 31 to 8 a.m. April 3. After the clean-up, we will reopen comments section. Necessary clean-up of information is conducive to providing everyone a better communicating atmosphere. We expect your understanding and consideration. Thank your for your support.”
