June 19, 2006
China is the first 'Communist' country we've visited, although I would personally call it an oligarchy, but we needn't quibble over labels. Still, while we've visited our share of countries with different types of political systems, China is the biggest country we've been to that's not a democracy. In their search for political control, we'd heard about the need for all sites to go through one routing system (or whatever the technical term is), so that the government could control subversive content. We did not, though, think that this would mean we couldn't access our site. But we can't. So our lovely friend Amy, who hosts this site on her space, is also going to start posting for us. We're backdating a couple to match where we were at the time we would have posted, but otherwise, hopefully they'll come through whenever we get a chance to email.
-Leah
