http://dagblog.com/link/fearful-final-hours-briton-china-13538 Comments for "Fearful Final Hours for Briton in China" en http://dagblog.com/comment/152459#comment-152459 <a id="comment-152459"></a> <p><em>In reply to <a href="http://dagblog.com/link/fearful-final-hours-briton-china-13538">Fearful Final Hours for Briton in China</a></em></p> <div class="field field-name-comment-body field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><blockquote> <p>The real-life murder mystery unfolding at the highest ranks of the Chinese government—featuring, so far, <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/evanosnos/2012/03/autopsies-oligarchs-and-chongqing.html">homicide, MI6, poison, Party infighting, and a police chief whose hobby involves organ transplantation</a>—is not only a political opera that makes Berlusconi’s antics look like community theatre. It’s also the largest Communist Party convulsion since the arrival of the Web, and the juxtaposition between Party orthodoxy and today’s information culture has laid bare a fault line in the future of “enlightened authoritarianism......</p> <div style="overflow: hidden; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left; text-decoration: none; border: medium none;"> Read more <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/evanosnos/2012/04/bo-xilai-and-his-wife-rumors-of-murder-in-china.html#ixzz1rodInvHf" style="color: #003399;">http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/evanosnos/2012/04/bo-xilai-and-his-wife-rumors-of-murder-in-china.html#ixzz1rodInvHf</a></div> <div style="overflow: hidden; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left; text-decoration: none; border: medium none;">  </div> <div style="overflow: hidden; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left; text-decoration: none; border: medium none;"> ("Letter from China" by Evan Osnos @ <em>The New Yorker</em>}</div> </blockquote> </div></div></div> Thu, 12 Apr 2012 09:15:55 +0000 artappraiser comment 152459 at http://dagblog.com