Jing, a frequent and insightful commentator at this blog, has started his own blog with Blogspot, “Those who dare,” from which we should expect quite a bit of good commentary. Make sure it’s on your blog list.
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Just had a quick look. Looks very promising. Good luck with it.
I love those old maps.
woah, a link from the Marmot! I’m not worthy, I’m not worthy! I’m all seriousness though, thanks for the mention, ill try to get cracking. Thinking of my next post as I speak!
cmdjing ?
Congrats!
Thanks for the heads up. His joint looks sweet!
Could Jing pick a blog host that isn’t banned in China?
(Oh, the irony.)
I’m actually jealous of the rest of yas. Jing has been a great commenter on most Asian-related blogs, and the blogosphere needs more independent voices on Asian issues.
I apreciate Jing’s views here and elsewhere, but contentwise, he’d never be banned in China. He essentially delivers the PRC party line, but with far more nuance — and without the arrogance, dissembling, and arrest, torture or exile of dissenters that is still all too common in China.
Then again, perhaps I spoke too soon. Here was Jing’s “nuanced” response to criticism over at One Free Korea:
You want an apology Wonsanghetto/Joshua/whatever?
Heres one, Fuck you. Reading in context and understanding sarcasm are beyond your ken and it certainly seems a waste of time explaining them to you. If you want to continue to think Im a foul-mouthed, jew-baiting, lebensraum-coveting, fiend who threatens to murder other people’s children go right on ahead. Far be it from me to stop you.
Jing | Homepage | 04.19.05 - 2:13 am | #
Cry me a river Slim. If Wonsanghetto/Joshua/OneFreeKorea continues to flog that same anti-semitic dead-horse from last year that started here at Marmot’s (and I thought ended as well) I’m in no mood to indulge him. It wasn’t criticism I was responding to, it was petulant mudslinging when on the second day my of blog, he rehashed the same tired old arguement, this time with the fresh accusation that I am out to murder your children. That’s right, apparently the name of my blog is actually to be taken as a literal threat against your family. Oh and a fooling around with Flickr? It means I’m proposing the annexation of the Korea peninsula. The Counter-Revolutionaries category actually means I consider all those people counter-revolutionaries. In case anyone can’t tell, all of that was sarcasm, which Wonsanghetto still hasn’t managed to digest and has added to the litany of anti-semitism charges.
p.s. Cloud, I chose blogspot because of other reasons relating to an entry on Xiaxue’s blog. I think I explained the reasons why actually on my first entry. In case you are wondering, it is still possible to view blogspot based blogs in China past the filter. Just use http://anonymouse.org/anonwww.html. Sinosplice’s China blog list has a bevy of blogs hosted by Blogger, but anyone in China can read them as long as they use a simple proxy.
I think Joshua had a point there with your original shylock comment, even if he perhaps took it too far. Also, we can’t really know for sure whether China has territorial ambitions over old Koguryo lands, since arguments just as historically weak underpin the PRC case in Tibet and Taiwan. Your new blog title may be sarcastic, but I can also see how some might see it as in bad taste, given your close association with the thinking of the PRC, which has made fields run bloody several times in its relatively short history and does run China with a crude blood-and-soil nationalism all too simlar to the Third Reich.
Aren’t u comrade Jing who used to post at asiafinest.com?
U certainly speak more intelligently than u do at asiafinest
Jing: I could be angry at you for putting my blog in the counter-revolutionary category, but the facts speak for themselves. I’m going to study in Taipei this summer on a Taiwan government scholarship, so can I really contradict you?
PS- larger text and more paragraph breaks would probably make it easier to read in a physical sense.