This year's Golden Globe winner, Avatar, is stirring up some surprising debate and discussion among China watchers who are wondering why Beijing has pulled the 2D version from 1600 theaters around the country—swapping it out (to the delight, no doubt, of Chinese filmgoers) for a thrilling state-sanctioned biography of Confucius.
January 2010 Archives
Kaiser Kuo: As cool as he looksThe discussions of Google's decision to stop kowtowing to Beijing after its gmail accounts were hacked from accounts based in China continue. In a fascinating Lowy Institute interview with Kaiser Kuo, Beijing-based American Ogilvy...
Outside Google’s Beijing headquartersPhoto: René Vandergoten, China Digital TimesOne of the scariest things about China’s censorship of the Internet and other media is that the government has effectively erased whole chapters of Chinese history. Many—and I dare say, most—20-somethings...



