ESWN: Freedom of Identity, Speech and Assembly on the Internet
A Chinese player of the network game The Fantasy of the Journey West (梦幻西游) has been put in virtual prison by Netease, the company that runs the game. ESWN reports and analyzes.
ESWN: Red Rubber Ball
Translated from the Beijing Evening News:
Early this morning, the Netease game “The Fantasy of the Journey West,” there was a mob scene of cursing players at the area known as “Jianye city government office.” The reason was that this Tang dynasty “government office” had a background that looked like a “Rising Sun.”
Read the rest on ESWN (linked above)
Camille en Chine: Meeting of the Bloggeurs
Camille Levert (see Danwei TV clip) is organizing the Third Beijing Bloggers party on Saturday July 15, open to all bloggers whether French, Chinese or from elsewhere.
Imagethief: Imagethief and the Hell of Yurts
Click on the link above to read the background or download an iPod version of the video, or watch the video on Youtube below. It’s about the blogger’s recent trip to Xinjiang, and covers Kashgar, Lake Karakal, Turpan and Urumqi.
Shanghaiist: A blog about Shanghai Jazz Scene
About the Shanghai Jazz Scene blog
Rebecca MacKinnon: China censorship: “storm in the brain”
A blog fight between the Global Voices Online citizens media evangelist and former CNN bureau chief Rebecca MacKinnon, and Hung Huang (see Danwei TV Hard Hat Show: Hung Huang – Media Mogul and Blogger and Hung Huang Part II – Her Acting Debut)
Xinhua: Vice Premier Hui leaves Beijing for DPRK
A short, tersely-worded statement:
BEIJING, July 10 (Xinhua) — A Chinese good-will delegation, led by Vice Premier Hui Liangyu, left here on Monday morning for a six-day visit to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK).
Hui, also a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, will also attend activities marking the 45th anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance between China and DPRK. Hui’s visit is at the invitation of the DPRK government.
The Chinese version is identical, which is often not the case in Xinhua’s reporting about North Korea.