Medical professionals in China are warning those who watch the uncensored version of Lust, Caution against replicating the sexual positions seen in the film. Chinese film buffs have taken to illegally downloading the uncut version of Ang Lee’s latest film, a spy thriller based in occupied Shanghai, because the sanitized version playing in Chinese […]

Really good news out of Beijing Thursday for those Olympic athletes who are devoutly religious. Bibles will be permitted in the Olympic Village during the Beijing Summer Games. Not only permitted, but according to Olympic organizers, they are welcome. I know some of you Flumesday readers abroad might be thinking, “why wouldn’t […]

As China’s Communist leaders convene in Beijing for their five-yearly National Congress, it appears state internet censors have blocked access to the online video site YouTube. As of Wednesday night in Shanghai, an attempt to connect to YouTube returns an all too familiar page for Web users in China, a blank page notifying the […]

For those not familiar with China’s governmental procedure, every five years the highest body within the Communist Party gets together in Beijing to discuss Communist Party policy and changes to the Party’s leadership. This is called the National Congress of the Communist Party of China and the 17th meeting of this body occurs next […]

Ang Lee’s newest film, “Lust, Caution,” which took top honors at this year’s Venice Film Festival, will have to be cut significantly before its China release on October 26th. The “spy-thriller,” according to China’s censors, featured too much nasty boot-knocking. According to a Reuters report Wednesday, Lee cut the edited-for-China version himself rather […]

If a Western film has a tenuous plot, plentiful stunts and is about robots that can transform themselves, it is shown in every theater in Shanghai cinemas. But if a Western film has a tenuous plot, plentiful stunts and features a black dude mocking a Chinese guy, it is not shown at all. […]

One blogger in Hong Kong pronounced Wednesday night that “China’s net censors have hit a new low” when for nearly 14 hours, the search site Yahoo! appeared to be blocked in mainland China. All reports out of China early Thursday led web users to believe that Yahoo! had suffered the same fate as Wikipedia, […]

It appears that Wikipedia has been unblocked again in the mainland. As Flumesday was the first to report of the previous liberation of Wikipedia in October, these blockings and unblocking of the world’s open-source online encyclopedia just don’t seem all that interesting anymore. There doesn’t seem to be any rhyme or reason to […]

I read this week that TIME Magazine’s “The China Blog” was injured by the Great Firewall of China when on Monday, all three of the blog’s writers posted about the 18th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square “crackdown.” I say injured because the page was not blocked, but rather just maimed. According to a […]

Another June 4th has come and gone, and much to the displeasure of China, what happened at Tiananmen Square 18 years ago yesterday has not been forgotten. Many had hoped that the new China, the Olympic China, would do things a bit differently this year to show to the rest of the world that […]