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A new way,or hope?

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After the security update of DNS server, the opera community's domain name, my.opera.com, was available in China mainland.Nowadays, the opera community and the Chinese authority seems to have found a way to be in harmony.Opera makes a new set of addresses just for China,my.cn.opera.com . Chinese IP will be redirect to this address and access to the blogs which belongs to Chinese users will be blocked with this page showing up,Blocked."We are sorry, but some pages on My Opera community are not available within the People's Republic of China".However, access to the foreign people's blog pages are not blocked.

I have no idea, why my opera blog, which is just a tool for me to practice my English and communicate with interesting people from all around the world, is "still not available within the People's Republic of China".

On the other hand, this new way of blocking seems to give us a new hope. Because the opera finally finds a way to cope with the authority's demands, in the meantime, maintaining most of it's functions. The unblocked address, my.opera.comis still accessable.This means direct access of the unblocked pages are still available.

Confusing..

I have no idea, whether to continue this blog or to get another one.

As you know opera community has been blocked in China for a long time, this return seems due to the updating of the world's major root DNS server( which means the government can no longer redirect the opera community to another non-available IP address).

This is a really big problem...Maybe tomorrow or, the next minute, they find an other way.

Bloody Urumqi, Pain in people's hearts



How can a human being, attack, murder innocent women and children, destroying his own city?
I just don't understand, the murderers are insane. What make them like that?

Xinjiang Roits

How can you be here?

1.What's tor
Tor is a system which claims to enable its users to communicate anonymously on the Internet, in my case, I use it to bypass the GFW(Golden Shield Project) to access the blocked website. It's better to use it with a firefox extention"Torbutton".
2.What's the situation
Now with the uprise of the incidents in west China, the authorities has just blocked twitter, blogger, and many other websites including this one(here is alist) . However people can find ways anyway. The blocked site are mostly foreign websites where people can express their ideas their own way, blogs and bbs.
3.So what?
As far as I am concerned, that's a fact I can live with, for most Chinese people, there are similar websites for them like "xiaonei" for facebook, "jiwai" for twitter, and many more. Of couse, sensitive words are banned or deleted by the websites. For a long time, the situation will not get any better.

The ciminals used bbs and instant message software to make plans for the violence in west China, so the government may strengthen the censorship of Internet.
sad

Hi I am back!

I am back! As you know opera community has been blocked in China for a long time, so people in China have to use proxy sever to view myopera page. However posting text to the blog is always a problem. This time I use tor and firefox with the torbutton extention. Now it's working fine!
bigsmile

2 years...

Differences between East & West--Being or Doing

When introducing someone, the Chinese tend to introduce his title or profession first, his being a professor, a manager, or a official. The westerners tend to explain what they are doing when meeting people, focusing on the specific matters.
This explains the difference between "being" and "doing".
Chinese people care much about qualitative things, who people are--their quality,temperament, their social class, speak louder than what they are doing. When it goes to specific matters, Chinese like to focus on what they are rather than what they can do. This comes from the traditional Chinese “正名” thinking--Rectifying names or telling what things really are.
This also influence the way people write articles: the Chinese articles are always found in a general, nonobjective way, which focus on the general correctness rather than specific matters. So it's kinda like: Chinese articles are always talking big, streching long statements without a specific example.
That's why my TOEFL writting teacher always shouts--"SPECIFC, SPECIFC, SPECIFIC!!!!".

Differences between East & West--concerning religion

The chart below may show some basic differences:
  • West / East
  • One God / Many gods
  • All powerful / Limited power
  • One truth / Many truths

In China, there is actually never be a God that people believe. There are many philosophy genres that tried to explain the truth of life and universe, most of them rose during the warring states period, including the famous "Confucianism". Buddhism and Taoism(a indigenous religion that calls for harmonious relationship between people and that between people & nature) are also popular, each has its own "God".
In fact, the vast majority never believe that there are a God with human spirit. The philosophers believe that through self self-discipline, self-improvement and a whole system of society philosophy, people will finally get to a civilization stage. So even there is a God, he can never influence people's lives.

Guidebooks Confiscated

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I found this tip on lonely planet's website, a travel guide provider:

Guidebooks Confiscated
Travellers entering China by road or rail across the southeastern border, particularly the Vietnamese frontier, report that Lonely Planet China guidebooks have been confiscated by border officials. This is due to sensitivity regarding maps of China that do not include Taiwan. Travellers should consider putting a cover on the book to make it less recognisable and just to be safe, copy down any crucial details you might need while in the country.


http://www.lonelyplanet.com/worldguide/destinations/asia/china
The mainland people sure are sensitive towards Taiwan issues, but the tips shown above are really amusing.