For those that will be visiting China or moving to China or who know people in China, I recommend using Astrill.com to by-pass the excessive censorship you will encounter online.
- See the large list of documentaries on China +here
- China in 10 minutes (video)
- Huge amount of China websites collected by DanWei.com (A Financial Times affiliated group from Australia)
- Video: Presentation from a mother and former reporter that attracted millions (also see this Canadian article that claims it attracted 175 million views in 2 days)
- China’s Unaddressed Mental Health Problems (2015)
- China Dialogue website (English & Chinese collaboration)
- Hong Kong Free Press
- Track your package/mail (EMS English) – In China you can dial 11183 and press 8 for English (source)
- The “Sinocism” China Newsletter
- Population density map showing more people live in Asia than the rest of the world
- Maps
- Air Pollution in Asia: Real-time Air Quality Index Visual Map and many other resources
- Pollution through Chinese eyes (photos + air quality index)
- China and America’s pork industry – one | two
- Air pollution preventive masks – Totobobo | Respro
- National Institute of Health report on the benefits of wearing a face mask against air pollution
- China’s face mask industry under scrutiny as pollution worsens
- Testing anti-smog drone
- BYD electric bus fleet in Nanjing
- The “Suicide Catcher” of Nanjing (pulls people from a bridge known for suicides)
- See the Baby Come Home volunteer network for abducted children. This video shows how technology helped a family find their son two years after the abduction
- The United States has diversified sources for some of its material requirements over the past several years, but still imports significant quantities and has become more dependent on China as either a primary or major provider of raw materials and several metals since 1993 (source /CRS).
- Mosquito factory
- China Labor Watch
- Chinese scientists genetically modify embryo genomes (2015)
- China history podcasts
- How China Became the World’s Junkyard Capital (The Atlantic)
- Chinese scientists clone human dna with cows for human milk (2011)
- Rent a White Guy: Confessions of a Fake Businessman from Beijing (The Atlantic, 2010)
- Bloomberg.com report Revolution to Riches on China government connections to wealth (blocked in China)
- HongWrong.com
- Civil disobedience successes | and here
- Chinese court sentences Uighur scholar to life in prison (for “separatism”)
- Under the Knife: Why Chinese patients are turning against their doctors
(2014 New Yorker article)
- “Hackerspaces” in China article
- China hackerspaces list from hackerspaces.org
- Comic China
- The Communist Party’s Politburo Standing Committee (the body that in effect runs China) has between five and nine members (?)
- City Urban Administrative and Law Enforcement Bureau, commonly shortened to Chengguan (Chinese: 城管) Human Rights Watch report
- Human Rights in China (HRIChina.org)
- 2005 Taishi Village citizen uprising (even octogenarians rose up in protest!) – Epoch Tmes | Boston Globe | ?
- Forum on China-Africa Cooperation
- SunTech solar power panel company
- Intel is reporting that server boards and connectors in India and China are suffering from corrosion due to the high levels of smog
- “Domestic media have run stories describing the expensive air purifiers government officials enjoy in their homes and offices.” (Source)
- “We looked at the top 70 people in the Chinese congress and compared their wealth with the US Congress and found that the top 70 individuals in the Chinese congress were richer than the entire US congress all combined including the president and the 13 members of the US supreme court.” (Hurun Report/transcript of the documentary “One in a Billion”)
- Asia meth-amphetamine seizures reached record-high in 2012 according to UN report (60 percent rise from 2011)
- Reporters Without Borders map showing state of press freedom
- WeChat (mobile app) and Weibo (micro-blogging) censorship
- “Blocked on Weibo” website reporting on what’s censored on Weibo
- Southern Weekly – news dichotomy against censorship? – one
- List of virtual private networks (VPNs) and proxies
- GreatFire.org – English | Chinese
- China “media map”
- Remember the “tank man” (youtube video)
- Online game called “Guard Nail Household” where you defend you house from demolition by the government (“nail houses”). Also here – one | two | three | four | five
- Nail houses photo galleries – one | two
- China Labor Bulletin (employees of this media group were featured in the PBS doc “Tank Man”)
- uFactory in Shenzhen (open source hardware)
Learning the language
- ChineseHour.com (free library and learning blog)
- Chinese character flashcards (PDFs)
- Hanping Chinese-English dictionary direct download (.apk) for Android (no Google Play bullshit) I found out about the Hanping dictionary after reading some of this forum thread .
- (Google Play bullshit) HanpingChinese.com dictionary for Android
- PeraPera Chinese for your web browser
- Scritter.com (learn to write)
- ChineseHacks.com
- Craigslist in Asia
- Chinese-Forums.com
- Reddit.com search of China
- Reddit.com’s “r/China”
- Funny Bing images
- Nanjiecun: A village still praising Mao
- China’s gunslingers of Baisha village in Guizhou Province
- ChinaHush.com
- ChinaSmack.com
- OffBeatChina.com
- ChinaUncensored.com
- The Nan Fang – urban life in Guanzhou, Shenzhen, Dongguan
- Blog on Chinese history and randomness (bokane.org)
- EastWestSouthNorth
- Random posts on China from a historian
- ChinaGeeks.org
- ChinaLawBlog.com
- ChinaAccountingBlog.com
- Chinese-Forums.com
- ChinaBooks.com
- China Business-related audio webinars
- Foreigner writing about TaoBao.com
- Pictures taken from TaoBao and put into a Tumblr website
- Brief audio + slideshow of art from 1950’s to present
- Tech in Asia
- Lonely Planet: China
- 1989 Tiananmen massacre videos (youtube)
- “China Uncensored” YouTube channel
- China’s death/execution buses (used to kill criminals and for removing their organs) | wikipedia entry for execution van
- Hong Kong’s “Occupy Central” and the denial of free elections for 2017 – link (New Yorker)
- Hong Kong Apple Daily on YouTube
- Hong Kong Epoch Times on YouTube
Taiwan
- Taiwan-Secrets.com
- Forumosa.com/taiwan/
- Basic customs
- Taiwanderful.net
- Taipei map with info (English)
- Taipei MRT (subway) updated/green line recently added
- Taiwan foods (lonely planet)
- Hungry Girl blog (Taipei)
- Vegetarian restaurants – use Happycow.net
- Government website | online forms if you plan on moving to Taiwan (BOCA)
- Taipei Hackerspace
- OpenLab Taipei
- Tealit.com (jobs)
- OrSeek.com (jobs)
- taipei.craigslist.com.tw
- Hiking in Taiwan (links)
- WikiTravel entry
- AirBnB.com for Taiwan
- CouchSurfing.org (requires sign-up)
- MovetoTaiwan.com blog
- OneWayBackpacking blog
- TaipeiTravel.net
- Taiwan-Taipei.com (seems to be an idle site/forum)
- Wikileaks Taiwan
- CountryCode.org (Taiwan phone code = 886)
- Videos of the musical garbage trucks!
Crowfunding sites
Books:
- Lonely Planet China (13th edition epub from PirateBay)
- Tombstone: The Great Chinese Famine, 1958-1962, by Yang Jisheng | epub torrent available at The Piratebay
- Article: Prison of the Mind, on the book Song and a Hundred Songs: A Poet’s Journey Through a Chinese Prison, by Liao Yiwu | torrent available at The Piratebay
- Covert epub files to PDF or other file types with Anicesoft (free trial) or this free program
- The People’s Republic of Amnesia: Tiananmen Revisited (2014)
- The Party Line: How The Media Dictates Public Opinion in China
Images
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