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Patrick Brown Former Bureau Chief CBC Beijing.
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submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

A splendid idea for grim times!

submitted 33 days ago • 1 comment

Plus ça change....

submitted 46 days ago • 0 comments

Someone needs to do an American version of @chinadigitaltimes.net Minitrue series on censorship directives. Direction of travel: 焚書坑儒

submitted 53 days ago • 2 comments

“While we deeply appreciate the offer and are sincerely flattered to be included, we apologize. We must decline. We simply do not have the intestinal fortitude it takes to be American.” www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/can...

submitted 75 days ago • 1 comment

I am here once again to complain about the enshitification of Google search. Maybe AI will kill us, maybe it’ll save us but meantime, it has taken one of mankind’s greatest accomplishments of last 40 years and ruined it.

submitted 85 days ago • 113 comments

Does anyone have an up-to-date recommendation for a VPN to use on a trip to China? I'd be grateful for a DM... I could provide an email address for more discretion.

submitted 106 days ago • 1 comment

Finally, a useful take on the US election...

submitted 134 days ago • 0 comments

www.instagram.com/reel/C9XQA_o...

submitted 239 days ago • 1 comment

Three "Here's what to know" stories on today's NYT front page. The meaningless clickbait tic is spreading. Are the other stories about things we don't need to know? www.nytimes.com

submitted 289 days ago • 0 comments

I made this short documentary ten years ago to mark the 25th anniversary of the massacre in Beijing. It is still valid now 35 years have passed. As many Chinese people say on this day： 永不忘记！永不原谅！ Never forget. Never forgive. youtube.com/watch?v=iDEt...

submitted 295 days ago • 0 comments

Expecting the @nytimes.com universal clickbait headline soon: "Here's what to know. It's not what you think"

submitted 348 days ago • 0 comments

New Stories from a Burning House post, on the Qianlong Emperor's cats, who probably didn't exist but were still very good. If you've shared this image, you are required to read the post; I don't make the rules. www.burninghou.se/p/the-empero...

submitted 353 days ago • 9 comments

i forgot to mention this because it came up last minute, but if you're in Vancouver, please tune in to CBC Vancouver (The Early Edition) tomorrow morning around 8:20am to listen to me talk about The Lantern and the Night Moths live on radio :)

submitted 366 days ago • 2 comments

Translations of Beowulf illustrate the glorious evolution of the language. John-Clark Levin's new Gen-Z offering is funny af, tbh, and @bokane.org's quote from Allison Killilea's elegant rendering in Corkonian is a reminder of the approach of March 17, for those who celebrate it, so it is.

submitted 376 days ago • 0 comments

Lexicon, a little white book from @cdt.bsky.social is fabulous. Buy it for more than the $5:00 asking price and support China Digital Times' unique contribution to understanding China.

submitted 446 days ago • 0 comments

Newly-arrived refugee.... Can anyone share an easy way to import accounts I follow from Xitter? Thanks.

submitted 507 days ago • 2 comments