Han Han is a Chinese guy whose writing is incredible. He bemoans the commuist party and what they are doing to China. He’s going to do a piece for an American newspaper which means he’ll end up in jail with an electric prod up his keester just as Ai Wei Wei did. But for now we can enjoy his work
here is a translation of his speech in Xiamen from here:
“Leaders, teachers, and students: Hi. Do you know why China couldn’t become a cultural power? Because in most of our speeches, “leaders” always come first, and our leaders are all illiterate. Moreover, they are scared of culture (or knowledge), but their job is to censor culture, so they can control culture. How can a country (controlled by these people) become a cultural power? What do you say, leaders?
Actually China has the potential to become a big cultural figure, let me tell you a story. I served as a chief editor for a magazine that couldn’t manage to publish until now…”
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http://www.chinahush.com/2010/05/20/han-hans-speech-in-xiamen-university-why-china-cannot-be-a-cultural-power/

Li Na was a one hit wonder. She is a stubby little Chinese woman who flashed her mandarin orange skin around the tennis court and won a major tournament. After he victory the world proclaimed that China would not only be the leader in pollution, corruption, crappy products, but sport as well. Since that victory, however, Li na has done nothing but suck.

The fortunate thing, however, is that her victory was on the day after third of June which is a bad day in China’s history. Now the Chinese can celebrate that day , however, as the date that the first major tourney was won by an Asian.