Stories about China from August, 2005
China: Hopes & Dreams
‘China Hopes and Dreams’ continue for the sake of little children twenty years from now. Commenters’ feedback is equally revealing as the bloggers’.
China: Oral English
“Handling” at least 4 foreigner-colleagues at one go is a good outing for brushing up oral English. The downside is: You have to listen to them attentively and laugh even if the jokes weren't funny, says a blogger from Qingdao, northeast China.
China: Hitch in the Alibaba deal?
China Herald comments on an article pointing out that many of the goods for sale on Alibaba, the Chinese internet portal that Yahoo! is heavily investing in, are counterfit.
China: PLA Wanted ads
Hong Kong-based blog Simon World looks at the PLA's policy towards marriage and co-habitiation in the ranks.
China: how returned overseas chinese viewed by locals?
In response to a reader query, Bingfeng Teahouse writes about how returning overseas Chinese are viewed by locals.
News from Chinese Blogosphere(Aug7th-13th)
1. The Yahoo-Alibaba Deal: The largest merger in Chinese Internet took place on August 11. Alibaba.com, a leading Chinese e-commerce company, which featured online auction and trade, acquired Yahoo China. According to the official announcement, Alibaba would have all assets of Yahoo China, including email and searching services. It also...
Asia: Daily linklets 12th August
Simon World, back from vacation, has resumed his valuable roundups of East Asian blogs and stories.
China: One-Sided Asymmetrical Information Warfare
EastSouthWestNorth looks at the crafty strategy that the PRC is using in releasinginformation about imprisioned journalist Ching Cheong.
China: Can Chinese fans translate Harry Potter?
Danwei passes on the news that a fan-translated version of the very latest Harry Potter novel has been completed on-line, a month before the officially sanctioned translation is released.
China: great wall party – the secret route to lobby the chinese congress
Bingfeng Teahouse traces the route that a story about an annual rave at the Great Wall took to get to the front page of China Daily. Unsurprisingly, it's a complicated one.
China & Hong Kong: Report on Blogging Seminar
T-Salon points to coverage of CCTV producer and blog portal director Hu Yong's Hong Kong seminar on blogging.
China: A Chinese Chatroom Adventure
An unfortunate chat room user found that her picture was hijacked by an unknown party who used it as their avatar in an “adults-only” chat room, reports EastSouthWestNorth.
China: Bill Clinton keynote speaker at China Internet Summit
China Digital Times reports that former US President Bill Clinton will be the keynote speaker at the China Internet Summit this fall in Hangzhou.
China & Taiwan: lee teng-hui sounds off
Former Taiwanese President Lee Tung-Hui has injected himself into the China/Taiwan debate by arguing that any invasion of Taiwan by China would be impossible due to the US nuclear submarine presence in the western Pacific.
China: Local Companies Ready for the outside world?
China Herald is skeptical of the ability of Chinese companies like Huawei, CNOOC, and Baidu to compete globally.
China: Shanghai Typhoon
Marc van der Chijs reports from Shanghai that Typhoon Matsa flooded the subways.
China: Baidu Fudging their
China Herald points to speculation that Chinese internet search engine Baidu has been inflating its marketshare numbers.
East Asia: Nominations Open…
The overseas Chinese blog Yellow Peril writes, in a sort of round-about fashion, about how female asian bloggers who write about sex are human rights pioneers.
News from Chinese Blogosphere
1 The case of luXuesong: LuXuesong, a teacher in Jilin College of the Arts, was suspended from her teaching post with political reason in May. She played a movie that was censored by government in her class. After this incident, she posted what she has been treated with on a...
China: Trusting the Media
EastSouthWestNorth reports on the story of an entrepreneur, involved in a dispute with the local government, who disappeared after leaving for a meeting with a “reporter”. As far as anyone can tell, he was arrested by public security officials who had been posing as CCTV producers.
China: One Country, Two Flowers
Simon World looks at the critically important issue of China's lack of a national flower.
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