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A great analysis of why the film Nanking didn't do very well at the Chinese box office.

Like visitors at George Washington's estate in Mount Vernon, Va., people come to Shaoshan in the heart of China to remember and teach their children about their national hero. He launched the Long March, an estimated 3,750-mile epic exploit as central to the story of China as the Boston Tea Party is to America. He fought warlords, the Japanese and the U.S.-supported Nationalists under Chiang Kai-shek. On Oct. 1, 1949, he stood in Beijing's Tiananmen Square and proclaimed the birth of a new China. He was Mao Zedong.

This is definitely not 好好; in fact, it is 真不好。

Rebecca MacKinnon has a great post (with interesting follow-up comments) on exactly what Yahoo knew, didn't know and claimed they didn't know about their part in sending Chinese journalist Shi Tao to jail for 10 years.

The rise of various Asian nations has led to the recent rise of Nationalism. As news of evidence of the horrific 1937 "Rape of Nanking" comes to light, Asian holocaust deniers crawl out and attempt to distort history...to the point of asserting that "the Chinese are inferior to the Japanese".

Ryan announces a group writing project over at Lost Laowai, aimed at the Chinese Blogosphere. The topic?

If I knew then what I knew now.

What do you know now that you wish you knew before you arrived in China? Write a post, and contribute to what will likely be a great guide for Laowai-to-be coming to China.

A blind activist who exposed a campaign by Chinese officials to force women to have abortions was jailed for more than four years yesterday in one of the country's most controversial human rights cases since the Tiananmen Square massacre.

If you ask Ma Lik, people in Hong Kong only deserve suffrage when they all agree that Beijing is full of lovable overlords and Tiananmen Square really wasn't so bad as those disgruntled anti-China foreigners in the world's media say it was. ImageThief has a different take.

Chinese netizens argue over a huge Mao Zedong statue in China's Chongqi Medical School. Some say it looks like Deng Xiaoping instead of Mao, others fight about the idea of making a statue of Mao.