zidouta.com » china http://www.zidouta.com website van Herman van Iperen Mon, 24 Jan 2011 16:38:35 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 In Changing Face of Beijing, a Look at the New China http://www.zidouta.com/2008/07/15/in-changing-face-of-beijing-a-look-at-the-new-china/ http://www.zidouta.com/2008/07/15/in-changing-face-of-beijing-a-look-at-the-new-china/#comments Tue, 15 Jul 2008 15:32:22 +0000 HvI http://www.zidouta.com/?p=1030 CCTV television headquarters, by Rem Koolhaas

CCTV television headquarters, Rem Koolhaas.

New York Times, In Changing Face of Beijing, a Look at the New China:

“(…) Mr. Koolhaas has set out to express the elasticity of the new global culture, and in the process explore ways architecture can bridge the gap between the intimate scale of the individual life and the whirling tide of mass society. The image of authority he conveys is pointedly ambiguous. Imposing at one moment, shy and retiring the next, the building’s unstable forms say as much about collective anxieties as they do about centralized power.

He has carved out ample space for places of social exchange. The interior of the building is conceived as an endless loop of public activities, with cafes, viewing decks and galleries extending up through one leg of the structure and back down through the other, where it connects to an underground subway.

The architect sees the dividing line between public and private spheres as an active battleground, one that is constantly shifting and readjusting as society’s norms change and evolve. For now, however, it is not the architect who will determine the degree of openness at CCTV but the company’s government-appointed board of directors.”

Bijbehorende interactieve kaart met commentaar: Architectural Monuments in a Reshaped Beijing.

]]> http://www.zidouta.com/2008/07/15/in-changing-face-of-beijing-a-look-at-the-new-china/feed/ 0 A Kind of True Living. On the Art of Ai Weiwei http://www.zidouta.com/2007/06/10/a-kind-of-true-living-on-the-art-of-ai-weiwei/ http://www.zidouta.com/2007/06/10/a-kind-of-true-living-on-the-art-of-ai-weiwei/#comments Sun, 10 Jun 2007 08:22:36 +0000 HvI http://www.zidouta.com/2007/06/10/a-kind-of-true-living-on-the-art-of-ai-weiwei/ Component of Ai Weiwei’s Fairytale, 2007 (1,001 Ming- and Qing-dynasty chairs).ArtForum: “Ai Weiwei contribution to Documenta 12 is titled Fairytale, but in China, where Ai is as famous as a movie star, people have acerbically taken to calling it “Yellow Peril.” The original concept for the artwork was simple: Round up 1,001 Chinese people from the artist’s sprawling, blog-mediated social network, give them matching clothes and luggage, fly them en bloc to Kassel, billet them on bamboo bunks in Ai-designed temporary quarters inside an old textile factory, and set them to wandering the city for the three-month duration of the show, which opens June 16. ”

Zie ook China Daily en natuurlijk Ai Weiwei’s weblog. (met plaatjes).

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Het voorstel luidde:

  1. Data that can identify individual users should not be hosted in Internet-restricting countries, where political speech can be treated as a crime by the legal system.
  2. The company will not engage in pro-active censorship.
  3. The company will use all legal means to resist demands for censorship. The company will only comply with such demands if required to do so through legally binding procedures.
  4. Users will be clearly informed when the company has acceded to legally binding government requests to filter or otherwise censor content that the user is trying to access.
  5. Users should be informed about the company’s data retention practices, and the ways in which their data is shared with third parties.
  6. The company will document all cases where legally binding censorship requests have been complied with, and that information will be publicly available.

The Funds’ Stockholder Proposal, Internet Censorship

]]> http://www.zidouta.com/2007/05/12/google-be-evil/feed/ 0 Chinesen lassen Schnee auf Tibet fallen http://www.zidouta.com/2007/04/18/chinesen-lassen-schnee-auf-tibet-fallen/ http://www.zidouta.com/2007/04/18/chinesen-lassen-schnee-auf-tibet-fallen/#comments Wed, 18 Apr 2007 11:26:42 +0000 HvI http://www.zidouta.com/2007/04/18/chinesen-lassen-schnee-auf-tibet-fallen/ Spiegel: “Über Tibet zwangen sie Wolken zum Niederschlag – der Umwelt zuliebe. Denn die Himalaja-Gletscher schmelzen, Dürre droht.”

]]> http://www.zidouta.com/2007/04/18/chinesen-lassen-schnee-auf-tibet-fallen/feed/ 0 Modern troglodytes in southwest province http://www.zidouta.com/2007/01/20/modern-troglodytes-in-southwest-province/ http://www.zidouta.com/2007/01/20/modern-troglodytes-in-southwest-province/#comments Sat, 20 Jan 2007 21:45:38 +0000 HvI http://www.zidouta.com/2007/01/20/modern-troglodytes-in-southwest-province/ Villagers gather for a group photo at the clearing inside a cavern in Anshun, southwest China's Guizhou Province. China Daily: “In the caverns deep in the mountain in Anshun of southwest China’s Guizhou Province, live nearly a hundred villagers. People of the Tajing village, all from the Miao minorrity group, have lived there for centuries.”

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    “Italian artist Marco Boggio Sella travelled to Burkina Faso in search of people who had never heard about the moon landing. “
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    “The rainmaking army uses rockets, artillery and aircraft to sow chemicals and artificially induce rain in times of need, said an official with the bureau’s Department of Forecasting Services and Disaster Mitigation.”
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    “Contextual integrity ties adequate protection for privacy to norms of specific contexts, demanding that information gathering and dissemination be appropriate to that context and obey the governing norms of distribution within it.”
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    “New Scientist has discovered that Pentagon’s National Security Agency, which specialises in eavesdropping and code-breaking, is funding research into the mass harvesting of the information that people post about themselves on social networks.”
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    “Chongqing is the fastest-growing urban centre on the planet. Its population is already bigger than that of Peru or Iraq, with half a million more arriving every year in search of a better life.”
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  • “Given the recent fuss about the government asking for search terms and what qualifies as personally identifiable information, I want to explain why IP address logging is a big deal.”
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  • THE ONE YOU LOVE – T-SHIRT (Front: The one you love. Back: Am I only the one you love?)
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    • ]]>     http://www.zidouta.com/2006/01/27/links-for-2006-01-27/feed/ 0     China’s internetpolitie: Jingjing and Chacha http://www.zidouta.com/2006/01/17/chinas-internetpolitie-jingjing-and-chacha/ http://www.zidouta.com/2006/01/17/chinas-internetpolitie-jingjing-and-chacha/#comments Tue, 17 Jan 2006 12:06:34 +0000 HvI http://www.zidouta.com/2006/01/17/chinas-internetpolitie-jingjing-and-chacha/ Chacha Jingjing “The main function of Jingjing and Chacha is to intimidate, not to answer questions,” our reporter was told by officials in charge of The Internet Security and Surveillance Division of Shenzhen Public Security Bureau. The Internet has been always monitored by police, the significance of Jingjing and Chacha’s appearence is to publicly remind all netizens to be conscious of safe and healthy use of the Internet, self-regulate their online behavior, and maintain harmonious Internet order together.” (Rebecca MacKinnon: China’s Big Bro and Sis now have names and faces!)

    Maar soms wordt de Chinese repressie aangenaam uitgedaagd:

    kiss
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