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2022: Novelist Azabu Keiba on Tokyo, Youth, Rat Race

Posted on 03/13/2024 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Interview with 30-something Japanese novelist Azabu Keiba 麻布競馬場 on Japanese youth, feelings of being worn out by hopeless competition, country vs. big city Tokyo. His 2022 book 『この部屋から東京タワーは永遠に見えない』麻布競馬場著（集英社） [“Tokyo Tower Can Never Be Seen From This Room”] relates the hallmarks … Continue reading →

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2024: VOA — PRC Cyber Police Identifying Followers of Overseas Critic

Posted on 02/27/2024 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Reading material on the Internet is increasingly being criminalized. Once spreading information like Ruan Xiaohuan (2023: PRC Freedom of Information Blogger Ruan Xiaohuan Persecuted) deemed false, harmful or unhealthy could get you into trouble. Simply reading it not so much. That … Continue reading →

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2021/3 RFA: China’s Tweeter Criminal Served 14 Months Jail Time, Fled PRC, on Snakehead Road to USA

Posted on 05/30/2023 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

I hear more and more about Chinese people emigrating to other countries. It is always a current topic, a bit more these days. Some are discouraged about unemployment, oppression, and their future prospects. Many Chinese who left in the 1980s … Continue reading →

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PRC: Massive Disinfection of Domestic and Foreign Mail

Posted on 01/16/2022 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

As China struggles to eliminate and prevent coronvirus infections to stay close to or at zero infections, it seems that even the low probability chance of infection by mail is important. From what I read on the Internet (well sources … Continue reading →

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2021: Propagandizing Foreigners to Reach China’s Domestic Audience: Why PRC External Propaganda is Often Ineffective

Posted on 11/07/2021 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

He Qinglian’s book Hongse Qinlve 红色侵略 [Red Infiltration] discusses the impressive PRC media outreach and pressure overt and covert to bring ostensibly independent Chinese media outlets under Party control or heavy influence. Parts of the book on PRC infiltration of … Continue reading →

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Disappeared Chinese Tweeter Reappears in His Literary Way

Posted on 04/26/2019 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

In March I blogged about the Twitter disappearance of Air-Moving Device recounted in my earlier blog posting that began: A Most Chinese Public Disappearance on Twitter: @airmovingdevice — his engrossing Big Data-style analysis of Chinese media treatment of high officials, references to … Continue reading →

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2019: Politically Incorrect Twitter Browsing Cost Suzhou TV Station Editor His Job

Posted on 04/14/2019 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

The Suzhou City Main Television Broadcasting Station in its administrative notice of April 4, 2019, announced that Zhu Chengzhuo had been removed from his post as Deputy Director of the All Media Editorial Center of the station. The administrative notice … Continue reading →

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A Most Chinese Public Disappearance on Twitter: @airmovingdevice

Posted on 03/07/2019 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Big Data-style analysis of Chinese media treatment of high officials, references to 1989 political massacres and other sensitive matters apparently got the anonymous person with the Twitter name @airmovingdevice silenced. @airmovingdevice deleted his/her cyber analytic insights into Chinese society and … Continue reading →

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