Years of Poems and Spirits

China’s Biggest Gamble
Can it have capitalism without democracy? A prediction.
By Henry Blodget
(Summary: we can only tell when China goes bust)

The filter at Berkman Center
Wu Hao case,

A sample reactions from China on Google censorship by BBC
(All Chinese people know that their expression is censored. We don’t need people outside continually reminding us of this. … there are so many things that Chinese people are doing. … My blog talks about internet developments and entrepreneurial activities…)

China Political Culture: Popular Protest and Political Culture in Modern China
edited by Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom and Elizabeth J. Perry
Requested.

Online entry: Political Economy:
Seymour Martin Lipset, turned from explanations of political values based on social class to those based on history and culture, which, he argued, displayed consistency throughout history. American political scientist Robert Putnam followed in this Tocquevillian tradition.

Negotiating the State: good summary of Chinese NGO

A summary article by Reuters.

Yahoo was accused of providing electronic records to Chinese authorities that led to an eight-year prison term for Li Zhi for subversion in 2003 and of helping to identify Shi Tao, who was accused of leaking state secrets abroad and jailed last year for 10 years.

From Reuters on 5/6/2005 China sees 60 million bloggers by year’s end

The number of Chinese bloggers is expected to hit 60 million by the end of this year, Xinhua said, quoting a report on China’s media industry by the prestigious Tsinghua University.

The university report forecast the number of bloggers in China would hit 100 million by 2007.

A recent report by the Internet Society of China showed nine percent of bloggers write every day, 29 percent write once to three times a week, while 35 percent write four to six times a week, Xinhua said.