“When Taiwan is mentioned, the stock phrase appears: “Taiwan, which China considers a renegade province.” Fair game, for that is what China considers Taiwan. Unfortunately, these journalists never say what Taiwan thinks of China.”

“I posted an animated spot from the 1950s for Jinro Soju several months back. Here’s another one. This one is apparently from the 1970’s…yet it features the same song and an almost indentical style of animation”

“Tokyo Tonite has already got video of the August 22 Wonderfest cosplay/anime/figure show in Tokyo. The video focuses on the female cosplayers and is a little prurient, but there’s some wild stuff here,”

“My sense is that the Chinese filters create a major obstacle for academic research, certainly from the Chinese side but perhaps from outside of China as well.”