The Law of Love in China

Tuesday, February 21st, 2006 @ 05:42 UTC

by Tian Yi

Countries:
China
Topics:
Humor, Law

How to regulate love in China? A mock law on love has been circulating online in China as early as 2002 and was recently picked up by mainstream media. Joel Martinsen presents the English translation on Danwei.

10 comments

  • Pingback: Free Hao Wu » It is nearly one month since Hao Wu was detained without charge.

    [...] Hao has also been an active blogger, writing as “Beijing Loafer” on his personal blog, Beijing or Bust, named after his film. Due to Chinese government internet blocking of his blog hosting service Blogger.com, he also has a mirror version of the site on MSN Spaces. In early February Hao began contributing to Global Voices Online, an international bloggers’ network hosted at Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society. Writing under the pen name Tian Yi, Hao’s contributions aimed to bring citizens’ online voices from China and the rest of North East Asia to readers in the English-speaking world. [...]

    # 2006-03-20 at 12:01 pm

  • Pingback: Global Voices Online » Blog Archive » Free Hao Wu!

    [...] Hao has also been an active blogger, writing as "Beijing Loafer" on his personal blog, Beijing or Bust, named after his film. Due to Chinese government internet blocking of his blog hosting service Blogger.com, he also has a mirror version of the site on MSN Spaces. In early February Hao began contributing as Northast Asia Editor to Global Voices Online, an international bloggers’ network hosted at Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society. Writing under the pen name Tian Yi, Hao’s contributions aimed to bring citizens’ online voices from China and the rest of North East Asia to readers in the English-speaking world. [...]

    # 2006-03-20 at 12:17 pm

  • Pingback: …My heart’s in Accra » Free Hao Wu

    [...] My Global Voices colleague Hao Wu (who wrote on GV as Tian Yi) has been held in detention in China since February 22nd. He was detained by the Beijing department of the State Security Bureau – no charges have been filed, and we don’t know why he’s being detained. We believe his detention is connected to a documentary he had been filming about underground churches in China… but it also may have been connected to his personal blog, or to his work with Global Voices. [...]

    # 2006-03-20 at 16:57 pm

  • Pingback: El Oso, El Moreno, and El Abogado » Blog Archive » Que Pongan en Libertad a Hao Wu

    [...] Hao ha sido un bloguero activo, utilizando el nom de plume, “Beijing Loafer”, en su blog personal, Beijing or Bust, nombrado por su película. Debido al bloqueo chino del servicio Blogger.com, él también tiene una versión idéntica en MSN Spaces. A principios de febrero Hao comenzó a contribuir como Editor de Asia para Global Voices Online, una comunidad internacional del bloggers basada en el Berkman Center de la Universidad de Harvard. Utilizando el nom de plume, Tian Yi, las contribuciones de Hao pretendían traer las voces de nuevos medios chinos a una audiencia mundial de habla inglesa. [...]

    # 2006-03-20 at 18:25 pm

  • Pingback: Rulemanes para Telémaco :: Una voz china :: March :: 2006

    [...] Hao Wu obtuvo una maestría en negocios en la Universidad de Michigan y luego estuvo trabajando para una empresa proveedora de acceso a la Internet. Luego de 12 años en USA regresó a su país natal para dedicarse a la escritura y al cine. Hao Wu es un contribuidor de Global Voices, bajo el pseudónimo de Tian Yi. [...]

    # 2006-03-20 at 21:04 pm

  • Pingback: Pickled Politics » Chinese blogger and filmmaker detained

    [...] Hao Wu was also North East Asia editor for a blog mentioned many times on PP, Global Voices Online, where he contributed under the name Tian Yi. [...]

    # 2006-03-20 at 23:18 pm

  • Pingback: Digital Common Sense » On Freeing Hao Wu

    [...] Hao has also been an active blogger, writing as “Beijing Loafer” on his personal blog, Beijing or Bust, named after his film. Due to Chinese government internet blocking of his blog hosting service Blogger.com, he also has a mirror version of the site on MSN Spaces. In early February Hao began contributing as Northeast Asia Editor to Global Voices Online, an international bloggers’ network hosted at Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society. Writing under the pen name Tian Yi, Hao’s contributions aimed to bring citizens’ online voices from China and the rest of North East Asia to readers in the English-speaking world. [...]

    # 2006-03-24 at 20:32 pm

  • Pingback: Digital Common Sense » On Freeing Hao Wu

    [...] Hao has also been an active blogger, writing as “Beijing Loafer” on his personal blog, Beijing or Bust, named after his film. Due to Chinese government internet blocking of his blog hosting service Blogger.com, he also has a mirror version of the site on MSN Spaces. In early February Hao began contributing as Northeast Asia Editor to Global Voices Online, an international bloggers’ network hosted at Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society. Writing under the pen name Tian Yi, Hao’s contributions aimed to bring citizens’ online voices from China and the rest of North East Asia to readers in the English-speaking world. [...]

    # 2006-03-24 at 20:32 pm

  • Pingback: Global Voices Online » Blog Archive » Wives and sisters against the Chinese Communist Party’s war on free speech

    [...] AIDS activist Hu Jia and documentarian/Beijing or Bust blogger Wu Hao [http://ethanzuckerman.com/haowu/?p=3] were both arrested in Beijing earlier this year on charges that have yet to be specified. While Hu—who went missing on February 16th—was released last week, Global Voices Online editor Wu nears his seventh week in detention. [...]

    # 2006-04-1 at 2:37 am

  • Pingback: Release Hao Wu at Within / Without

    [...] My colleague at Global Voices – Hao Wu, who blogs at Beijing or Bust, has been detained by the Beijing division of China’s State Security Bureau on the afternoon of Wednesday, Febuary 22, 2006. Hao Wu is the East Asia Regional Editor at Global Voices. A blog has been set up at http://www.freehaowu.org/ to provide updates and appeal to the Chinese Government. Rebecca writes – Beijing’s Public Security Bureau (the police) has confirmed that Hao has been detained, but have declined to specify the charges against him. [...]

    # 2006-04-27 at 3:16 am

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