Category Archives: Internet

China Businesscast: The Future of Chinese Media

Earnshaw talks about running a lifestyle magazine in China and believes the death of magazines is imminent. The Chinese expression 从无到有(cong2wu2dao4you3), to emerge from nothingness, would be a fair way to describe how traditional and new forms of Chinese media … Continue reading →

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Chinese medicine strikes back at critics

Ma Youdu from the China Association of Chinese Medicine wants to teach Chinese medicine in schools.

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Flypig in English

Steven Lin is a journalist at The Economic Observer, and one of the voices behind Antiwave – your correspondent’s favorite Chinese podcast (site currently closed for renovation). His Chinese blog is Flypig, and he now has an English blog called … Continue reading →

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Eco-socialism

China Dialogue has published a short interview with Pan Yue, the outspoken deputy director of China’s State Environmental Protection Administration, in which he discusses “eco-socialism” and China’s environmental problems. The English version is here, the Chinese version is here; both … Continue reading →

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Harmonious weirdness

Ouch Despite the Net Nanny’s best efforts to ensure a harmonious environment, China’s Internet is getting weirder all the time. The image to the left is from Muzi Mei’s ‘blog salon’ and shows some youngsters being hung up from hooks … Continue reading →

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Jack Ma: Vision, and fears of a bubble

The elf that roared Last week your correspondent was a panelist at a huge conference in Shanghai about interactive and search engine marketing called Ad:tech. The keynote speaker was Jack Ma (马云), the elfin and charismatic founder and CEO of … Continue reading →

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Blogspot blocked again

China’s Net Nanny has forgotten to take her meds. In August this year, the Nanny unblocked Blogspot — Google’s popular free blog hosting service that had been inaccesible in China for several years. In the last few days, the Nanny … Continue reading →

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Writers at home and abroad distort Red Mansions

A Comic Red Mansions (大话红楼) raises the ire of parents and teachers. Is it the work of an American NASA scientist? Also, a computer-generated image of Lin Daiyu and Jia Baoyu.

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Hu Ge’s new spoof: Action movie dodgy drug infomercial

Hu Ge has a new parody film out.

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The paradox of registering bloggers’ real names
by Wang Xiaofeng

Wang Xiaofeng on a proposed blogger ID verification system: I don’t believe that you can eliminate the sentence ‘fuck your mother’ for even half a year unless China devotes huge, huge resources to controlling such people.

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by Wang Xiaofeng