Watching China

A hill of iron slag collapsed in Lifan county. A reporter found that there was a cover-up on the cause as well as the number of deaths. But his published report was blocked on the Internet. Therefore, he used his personal blog to draw the attention of the state leaders to re-open the case.

A migrant worker on a train went beserk and was tied down by the train workers. His subsequent death caused some of the passengers to tell their stories on the Internet and rue their own failure to take action.

A Chinese blogger reflects on the mass resignation at Radio Taiwan International to protest political interference with freedom of press.

A sample of Chinese citizens take up the challenge of John F. Kennedy and ask what they have done for their country.

Fifty-nine years after the founding of the People's Republic of China and thirty years after the reforms began, a sample of Chinese citizens reflects on what their country has done for them.

Here are my publications as listed in my curriculum vitae (and nothing ever published on ESWN meant anything). The prize-winning article was The Anatomy Of Data Fusion and the most famous was Threshold Models of Diffusion and Collective Behavior. Who knew? Who cared?

When the Internet police found a 30-minute adult video on the computer of citizen Ren Chaoqi, they imposed a fine of 1,900 RMB. Since then, the police have rescinded the fine. Netizens believe that it was the result of public opinion being almost universally against the fine.

The peasant Zhou Zhenglong was sentenced to 2-1/2 years in prison for faking the South China tiger photos.