http://blackandwhitecat.blogsome.com Tue, 26 Aug 2008 22:39:29 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Yes, it’s time to say goodbye at last to free blogging. Black and White Cat has now moved to www.blackandwhitecat.org which, for now at least, does not require a proxy to access from China. http://blackandwhitecat.blogsome.com/2007/10/20/this-blog-has-moved/ Hell hath no fury like 11 angry mistresses. Stories didn’t get much better than this. Subordinates having to send their wives to a corrupt party secretary and mayor if they wanted to get ahead. He’s finally brought down by his own treachery after allowing one of the husbands to be ... http://blackandwhitecat.blogsome.com/2007/09/27/33/ I was being grilled the other day by one of my superiors at work about certain aspects of credibility in our international programming. The term PR made an appearance in our conversation. PR - the first two letters of propaganda. I suppose my ultimate employer in China is the 宣传部 ... http://blackandwhitecat.blogsome.com/2007/09/26/pr-for-to-make-tartys-in-applis/ Seven or eight years ago, a friend in Beijing told me that her students insisted they would never help anyone they saw injured on the street and neither should she. They said the injured person was likely repay your act of kindness by accusing you of causing the injury yourself ... http://blackandwhitecat.blogsome.com/2007/09/20/98-year-old-woman-sues-schoolchildren/ If ESWN had not linked to Riverbend’s latest post at Baghdad Burning, I might not have known for another week or so that she had finally left Iraq. She hadn’t written since April. It took me about half an hour to read this last sad letter from a country in ... http://blackandwhitecat.blogsome.com/2007/09/14/leaving-iraq/ The picture above was taken on Christmas Island and has nothing whatsoever to do with this or this. http://blackandwhitecat.blogsome.com/2007/09/13/road-closed/ The vice-president of the Supreme People’s Court says fewer people were sentenced to death in China last year than at any time in the last decade. And he says the number of death sentences has continued to fall this year, since the Supreme People’s Court took back the power of ... http://blackandwhitecat.blogsome.com/2007/09/05/trust-me/ The (daft) title of this post is fortunately not one of China’s 190 newly approved family planning slogans. This, on the other hand, is: 家是船，爱是帆，生殖健康是您幸福的港湾The family is a boat, love is a sail, healthy reproduction is your happy harbor. How sweet. It’s certainly more harmonious than this: 一人超生，全村结扎！If one person has too many ... http://blackandwhitecat.blogsome.com/2007/09/03/go-forth-and-multiply-by-one/ There’s another China post coming, but I’ve been a bit lazy about finishing the translation in after-work hours. The Humanaught is to blame for my latest procrastination after he recommended John Pilger’s latest documentary, The War on Democracy. I remembered that recommendation last night, so I headed off here. And, ... http://blackandwhitecat.blogsome.com/2007/08/28/democracy-fights-back/ There’s a phrase you find yourself using in headlines about disasters like the flooded mine in Shandong: "Hopes fade as…." I notice the China Daily has used it again today. It’s often not really very honest. The fact is that by the time any of us heard that there had ... http://blackandwhitecat.blogsome.com/2007/08/22/natural-and-human-disasters/