Under the Jacaranda Tree

The End of an Era for Caijing Magazine

C.A. Yeung — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:09:40 +0000

The much anticipated resignation of Hu Shuli from the Caijing Magazine has finally been confirmed. This marks more than just the end of an era for an influential finance magazine that earns its reputation for its relatively independent voice. It is also a solemn reminder of the inevitably futile task of negotiating freedom with a [...]

Why Americans are doomed

Ned Kelly — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 03:18:09 +0000

Why Americans are doomed: Posted in Ivan's Bunker, Ned Kelly's Pub Tagged: Stupid Americans

Chen Guangcheng – Lest we Forget

C.A. Yeung — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 17:53:17 +0000

Tomorrow is the International Day for the Blind. Chen Guangcheng’s wife Yuan Weijing has written to remind the world of her husband’s life in prison. Yuan is under strict surveillance at the moment. We express our thanks to anyone who has had the courage to smuggle the letter out. The original letter is published [...]

Major Crisis at Caijing Magazine

C.A. Yeung — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 15:15:35 +0000

财经杂志大地震，总经理与九名业务主管中的八人已辞职，据说其创办人兼主编胡舒立可能另起炉灶。据悉集体辞职，与胡舒立和杂志资方之间的权力斗争有关。 According to today’s South China Morning Post, the influential Beijing-based financial magazine Caijing is experiencing a crisis of seismic proportion. Consequently it will lose two third of business staff. It is understood that General Manager Daphne Wu Chuanhui and eight of her nine business directors have resigned. Another unnamed source further suggests that 70% of [...]

Internet Human Rights Declaration

C.A. Yeung — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 16:49:05 +0000

Issued by 15 Chinese intellectuals Source: Canyu Author: Ling Canzhou and others On 8 October 2009, 15 Chinese intellectuals, including writers, scholars and lawyers, jointly issued the following online Internet Human Rights Declaration: Internet Human Rights Declaration Those of us who are standing on the embankment overlooking the torrent of history have witnessed the potential of this new technology: the [...]

Wiedervereinigung: a Jacaranda Tree series

Ned Kelly — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 16:15:15 +0000

This is our first installment in a series which we will run until November 1989, the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall and the consequent Wiedervereinigung (I just love pronouncing that word!) and the death of Communism. The Marxist kind of socialism was born in Germany, and it died in Germany in 1989. [...]

Myfenwai and JR discuss genetics and farting

Ned Kelly — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 13:17:23 +0000

Film footage of a discourse between Myfenwai and JR/JustRecently. JR is of course the one speaking German. Posted in Ned Kelly's Pub Tagged: farting, Fenqing, Myfenwai

Diversity Training

Ned Kelly — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 12:27:05 +0000

This is the first installment of our new series of animated cartoons by Ned Kelly. This one takes place somewhere in metropolitan Los Angeles. Posted in Ned Kelly's Pub Tagged: cultural marxism, diversity, liberal assholes

Dedicated to our hero

Ned Kelly — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 00:10:04 +0000

No comment, except to say this is dedicated to our household protector: Posted in laudable weirdness, Ned Kelly's Pub

In Memory of Professor Liu Ts’un-yan 1917 – 2009

C.A. Yeung — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 11:20:28 +0000

The world lost two of the best sinologists within a short space of less than three weeks. Shortly after the death of Professor David Hawkes on 31 July, one of his best friends Professor Liu Ts’un-yan was admitted to hospital in Canberra where he died a few days later on 13 August. Here is [...]