City girl moves to the Chinese countryside.
Oh, the things she will learn.

Posts tagged "propaganda"

Really? I mean, really?

This U.S. ad put on television by the “Citizens Against Government Waste” is appalling. It depicts a Beijing classroom in 2030 with a Chinese professor lecturing about the fall of great empires. The latest empire he makes an example of? The United States. The message is that the U.S. government is spending way too much...

Low Voter Turnout in Hong Kong Spurs Government Propaganda, Calls to Trust Constitutional Plan in 2012

I just saw this commercial on the television today. My jaw dropped because I really had no idea what the ad was about, until the very end. Take a look. Government propaganda. The ad was released this week, just a day after a failed by-election here in Hong Kong, in which five legislators asked the...

GFW down?

Happening NOW – Google.CN seems to be scouring the Internet as any normal Google search engine should. Meaning, you type in a few words and you’ll get whatever you are looking for. No strange message saying the website you are trying to seek is forbidden. No watching the cursor load and load and load and...

Oh those Desperados…

The latest headline to pop up in my Google page was a cute little article written in special English by the good people over at Xinhua. The article, titled “Biased Xinjiang riot coverage refuted” takes issue with the Western media’s reporting on the riots that are erupting between Han and Uighurs in NW China. In...