I sent the address of this blog out to some of my friends and family, including a journalist working in Guangzhou, China. This is his response:
What on Earth did you put on your blog? Declarations of love for the Dalai
Lama? Your views on Taiwan independence? The communists have blocked it!!!
Wow. First-hand experience with the Chinese censors. The journalist says they often block anything with a blog address or name, so given my current fascination with blogs I guess I won’t be making it into his bookmarks any time soon.
I’m beginning to feel like a real Concordia student, contending with issues of censorship and all… speaking of which….check out the below links to learn more about Concordia’s most recent incident in the world of risk assessment committees, race relations, and alleged censorship. The timeliness of the story may have influenced the pickup it received from the Guardian. “North of 9/11” will be read tomorrow at the uni co-op bookstore.
http://thelink.concordia.ca/view.php?aid=38622
http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,,1867994,00.html
Back to the Chinese censors….the Dali Lama was in Vancouver, B.C. this past Saturday. Two friends from Victoria went over to see him and were duly inspired. Apparently there were sound issues that made him a little difficult to hear, and during one of the lulls, 20,000 people in GM Place broke into a spontaneous round of “O’ Canada.”
Who says Canadians aren’t patriotic?
Patriotism. 9/11. Censorship. Co-op bookstore. Race relations. My blog’s never going to make it big in China. Sigh.