Stories about China from April, 2007
China: Photo Comic Blog
Jason Li from Virtual China introduced a Photo Comic Blog, Very Real People, Very Entertaining. Humor is very difficult to translate, and Jason tried to capture the sense of Chinese Humor in his post.
China: Blame Canada?
Google seizes up before any results appear in a search for 'Celil,' 'Canada' (in Chinese) and '2007,' fitting given that a proxified search turns up no Chinese language media reports from websites that can be readily viewed within China. It's a different story, as usual, for a Google search which includes the word blog.
China: Wall to Beautify or Cover up?
Zhao Shilong commented on the touristic Walls being built in Gan-su (zh). Local official claimed that the walls were to beautify the villages, however, local villagers said the wall was to cover up poverty and shame.
China: Protest against Bill Gates
A rare protest at Peking University for free software when Bill Gates was handing out certificates to a line of students – from People's Republic of…
Online Freedom for All: Some cases worth supporting
In my last article, “Lessons from the Free Kareem campaign”, I talked about campaigning and why some jailed and persecuted bloggers and online writers are winning sympathy, while others have difficulty attracting the attention of the public. I also discussed the logic behind the success or the failure of campaigning,...
China: Chinese Blog Hostings are not Web 2.0
The whole concept of Web 2.0 is to facilitate information flow, dialogue and conversation across the Internet. However, Sina.com, in Mainland China, is not only notorious in their editorial policy which violates the freedom of speech (see open letter to sina.com); yesterday Fang Jung in Mindmeter found out that Sina.com...
China: Chinese Blog Companies are not Web 2.0
The whole concept of Web 2.0 is to facilitate information flow, dialogue and conversation across the Internet. However, Sina.com, in Mainland China, is not only notorious in their editorial policy which violates the freedom of speech (see open letter to sina.com); yesterday Fang Jung in Mindmeter found out that Sina.com...
China: MeMedia Issue 4: Copyright Kills Creation, Life's Precious, Ching Ming Festival
This week comes the fourth issue from the newly-formed MeMedia roundup of all that's hot around the Chinese blogsphere including the upcoming Taiwan Bloggers BoF, copyright discussion in Hong Kong, kickback cost of medicine in China, in memory of the deads in Ching Ming Festival and much more. [技术和互联网 2007...
China: Reactions to the Virginia Tech slayings
While most Chinese shared the horror and grief following the slayings at Virginia Tech, one prominent blogger asks why so little attention was paid to two similar tragedies which also took place this week in China.
China: Cultural Worker License
China Media Project brings into focus a recent announcement by China's top cultural officials announced that the country would institute a new licensing system this year for employment in the cultural sector.
China: Daughter's Day
Peijin Chen from Shanghaiist reports on the restoration of traditional festivial day in China. April 19 is the third day of the third month in Chinese Lunar Calendar, which is known as the “Daughter's Day” (女儿节). The background of the restoration trend is related to UNESCO's intangible heritage policy.
China: Community embraces orphan
Late last month, a husband-wife migrant laborer couple from China's poverty-stricken Henan province working in Beijing killed themselves, leaving two teenage children to fend for themselves. Last week, Beijing-based Sohu blogger Li Yuanyuan took her camera and went to the younger child's school to see how the community has reacted.
China and U.S: Shooter Online Report
Graham Webster from Transpacific Triangle noticed that the online journalistic story about Virginia Tech Shooter has been edited with the same URL without mentioning their previous mistake: The papers apparently have used the same URL for their online story on the shooting, continually editing it. In this case, the Times...
Japan and China: Tea
Alexpappas in Japundit blogs a news report about Japanese merchants in taking tea back to China as it is the biggest potential market: Affluent Chinese are paying as much as 6,000-7,000 yen for 100 grams for the finest-grade longjing tea, often bought as gifts…
China and Hong Kong: You won't understand my sorrow
ESWN has translated an in-depth investigative report by Yuan Lei at Southern Weekend on the case of Andy Lau fan Yang Lijuan, whose father had committed suicide.
China: New Slang
Joel Martinsen from Danwei translated two articles (one from YWeekend and another from Wu Fei's blog) discussing about new slang in China, the latter was worried about the impact of hooliganish language on the society.
China: Crisis in Humanities
Xueyong blogs about the crisis of the faculty of humanities in universities in as a result of the students’ pragmaticism in choosing major subject. He suggests the only way out is general education [zh].
China: Orchid crime
Zeng-ying blogs about a homocide case in Cheng-du. The murderer has killed 4 people and assaulted 2. Behind this cold blood murder is the Orchid market (zh). The price of some rare orchids has increased 10 of thousand times in the past few years.
China:Three Stories about Old Aged Internet Users
Virtual China has a post, written by Nan Yang, on stories about senior internet users in China: woman English teacher, a photography fan and a retired old man.
China: A Bottomless Glass
Chai jin wrote a poem in her blog “A bottomless Glass”[zh] for a charity organization: If we only talk about poverty and not about how to empower the poor and the vulnerables to voice out for their rights, to monitor the powerful social groups and enjoy same rights… we are...
China: Baidu JP blocked?
William long tries to investigate why mainland Chinese netizen can't visit Baidu again [zh]. The result showed that i.p from China are reset by Baidu japan site.
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