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gadyepstein

  1. Some Chinese migrants spurn the factory to try to become movie stars. Doesn't work out: economist.com/node/21556310 Enjoyable read (not by me) about 3 hours ago via TweetDeck
  2. This week's Economist: China's young generation of migrant workers—"Don't complain about things that you can't change" economist.com/node/21556271?… about 4 hours ago via TweetDeck
  3. Google, now helping users in China when searches include peskily sensitive characters like "Jiang" & "Zhou" insidesearch.blogspot.com/2012/05/better… via @rmack about 16 hours ago via TweetDeck
  4. @siweiluozi @MomoAdalois Right, the truth of that specific claim is hard to discern. about 23 hours ago via TweetDeck in reply to siweiluozi
  5. @siweiluozi @niubi Agreed. An official is more likely to be sacked for embarrassing failure to repress a dissident (not for trying to do so) about 24 hours ago via TweetDeck
  6. Other (correct?) way to read this: Guy who let Chen escape was "sacked"; guy who jailed him in 1st place is doing fine thestandard.com.hk/news_detail.as… about 24 hours ago via TweetDeck
  7. @thats_mandarin Correct. 10:44 PM May 30th via TweetDeck in reply to thats_mandarin
  8. @kemc @JamesFallows Surely plenty of people in US are outraged. If this were in China, would we even know about it? Maybe. 10:17 PM May 30th via TweetDeck
  9. China's @relevantorgans shirk Web monitoring on Friday nights: Reverse Engineering Chinese Censorship niemanlab.org/2012/05/revers… Too much karaoke? 9:14 PM May 30th via TweetDeck
  10. Nice roundup in Sinocism by @niubi. Sign up for the email bit.ly/L068yx Chen Guangcheng, Beijing corruption probe, fish, web censors 9:08 PM May 30th via TweetDeck
  11. That @NiemanLab link via the excellent @PhilippaNews. 12:33 PM May 30th via TweetDeck
  12. This!: Reverse Engineering Chinese Censorship niemanlab.org/2012/05/revers… Data-mining Weibo deletions & when to post (censors sleepy on Fri nites) 12:32 PM May 30th via TweetDeck
  13. RT @k_ved: RT @margafret: RT @RamonaTheBrave7: RT @erinscafe: RT @parva_x: RT @TheStalwart: RT @amaeryllis: bored. 9:33 AM May 30th via TweetDeck
  14. Indeed RT @klustout: WOW RT @markmackinnon: Great photo. MT @seacorro Total bedlam as #AungSanSuuKyi arrives in Bangkok twitter.com/seacorro/statu… 12:49 AM May 30th via TweetDeck
  15. Agreed. RT @Horse_ebooks: Less 12:44 AM May 30th via TweetDeck
  16. @siweiluozi Obviously 鱼香 12:39 AM May 30th via TweetDeck in reply to siweiluozi
  17. @siweiluozi How about "the big eggplant"? 12:36 AM May 30th via TweetDeck in reply to siweiluozi
  18. @limlouisa You mean this time around? No, that would be 1 term ahead of expectations. 12:36 AM May 30th via TweetDeck in reply to limlouisa
  19. Could be top dog (technical term) in 10 yrs RT @limlouisa Hu Chunhua new Beijing party sec according to @WantChinaTimes wantchinatimes.com/news-subclass-… 12:32 AM May 30th via TweetDeck
  • Name Gady Epstein
  • Location Beijing
  • Bio Correspondent, The Economist. Occasionally also known as #FakeChinaExpert, #FakeWhiteHouseReporter & #FakeXinhuaReporter
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