Stories about China from October, 2006
China: labour law
The Chinese government has passed a new set of labour law, Alan Baumler at The China history group blog gives more background information about the role of official union and...
China and Japan: Netizen
Jacky peng in Little bridge blogs about the difference between Chinese and Japanese net users on BBS.
China: Let your photos do the talking
While dealing with blocked pages and filter-trigger keywords can get pretty annoying on the wrong side of the internet, for bloggers in China who want some discussion on, say, the...
China: China telecom forced software
RFA reports that China telecom forced its ADSL clients to use a software, forcing people to receive advertisement. Human rights activists said that the side effects will be monitoring of...
China: the politics of spoof culture
An article written by me at interlocals.net on the cultural and political background of internet spoofs, especially in relation to the reinvention of the Red Classics (revolution propaganda films).
China: Fujian government media PK Xinhua
ESWN translates a report about the debate between Fujian government media and Xinhua reporters on the disaster report concerning typhoon Saomai.
China: fairness and justice
Ai wei wei discusses the way how the government deal with fairness and justice by presenting two legal cases: Let us discuss fairness and equality, the foundations for social morality....
China: digital sex
Wang Xiao-feng discusses about the fashion of “digital sex” writings and its potential impact on sex attitude in China (zh): some writers pretend to be experts in sex, but the...
China: little fatty net
Lyn Jeffery in Virtual China introduces a new website called “little fatty net”. It is a new generation youth website.
China: Youth, too much free time
Obscurity is here to stay for the residents of a distant northern Chinese town, it seems, judging from a post this week from Chongqing-based blogger-journalist Ran Yunfei. 中国的县之多，从未听说过某一县，当然不足为奇。比如山西的方山县，我就从未听说过。但最近这个县的县委书记张国彪来了个铁腕政策，打着为保护未成年学生的幌子，关掉该县县城所有网吧，干涉商人经商之自由，以及人们了解信息之自由。还被许多人赞美，这真是滑天下之大稽。 There are...
China: school murder case
Liao Zusheng's son was beaten to death at school in Fushan. Liao opened a blog in sina claiming that his son was murdered by teachers and staffs because of his...
China: expelling the mentally ill for Olympic
After the plan of expelling rural migrant workers, Beijing government is preparing to expel “mentally ill” people out of the city before the Olympic. The angry Chinese blogger reminds us...
China: lesbian Shanghai
Shang Tiff in Shanghaiist introduces the Lesbian or lala culture in Shanghai.
China: wikipedia unblocked?
Many people find out that they can visit wikipedia since yesterday. Shanghaiist also tests it but not sure how long will it sustain. .
Northeast Asia: Nuclear test
Sun bin blogs the google map on the North Korea Nuclear test and summarizes the test information. In South Korea, there were much discussions in the blogsphere (although I can...
China and Taiwan: media star map
ESWN translates an articles written by Chang Shi-kuo on the transition of Chinese media as represented by a star map.
China: bilingual photo blog
Chinese artist Ai Wei Wei's blog is now turning into a bilingual photo blog, run by a team. The blog's propaganda statement is here.
China: internationalization of movie
Feng Xiao-kang's latest movie “the Banquet” is aiming at the international market, with many international stars, such as Zhang Ziyi. However, local responses of the movie have been rather negative....
China: celebrating national day
Absurd fool at interlocals.net reports about the politics of consumption during the national day holiday; Joel Martinsen in DANWEI translates a blog post on “National day in the age of...
China: web design
Lyn Jeffery compares English and Chinese web design in Virtual China.
China: Fifty-three things you may not know
As if learning Chinese wasn't hard enough, did you know that all bloggers in China are security encryption experts? ‘An effective way to visit Wikipedia’ [zh]—which is blocked in China—from...
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