Category Archives: Internet

Chinese movie sex blog and bloggers’ real names

Findings of the Chinese Movie Nudity Research Center There’s a new hoo haa on the Chinese Internet about new regulations that will require bloggers to register their real names with the authorities. The rumblings about real name registration are emerging … Continue reading →

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Designing a cover for a Chinese Vanity Fair

Frank Miao Wei writes on his blog about the Chinese editions of various internationally-famous publications, and proposes putting Han Han nude on the cover with Wang Shuo and a clothed Xu Jinglei.

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Water? I’ll need to see some ID.

Some opinion pieces on water conservation in Beijing.

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Poets and pig-feed

Qu Yuan, the famous Chinese poet, is a brand of pig feed in Hunan.

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China Businesscast: Chinese Word of Mouth with Sam Flemming

Flemming talks of net stars and other commercial trends in the Chinese web How do you sort through the massive noise of millions of messages posted daily on Chinese web forums, aka BBS sites? Sam Flemming, CEO of CIC Data, … Continue reading →

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Incest, beauty standards, and manipulating public opinion

A Jiang Wenli ad for Maxam cosmetics has a son saying he’d like to marry his mother. Debate has raged in the Chinese media; feminist commentator Lu Pin says that this is missing the point.

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Google – Youtube: it’s all about search

Koolhaas-hunting on Youtube: this Danwei video is a frequent search target Google’s recently-announced purchase of Youtube for the cool sum of 1.6 billion dollars has excited the chattering classes of the Internet. People are asking all kinds of things about … Continue reading →

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Wikipedia unblocked, but is Nanny throttling Youtube uploads?

Youtube problems. October 2006.

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Putting animal protection in the dictionary

Animal protection advocates in China are upset at definitions in the Xinhua Dictionary that refer to the tasty flesh of animals.

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CCTV News, the youth don’t need you no more

Within hours of the news of North Korea’s nuclear test breaking yesterday, the following video was published on Tudou, which is the most prominent of China’s Youtube clones. It is a clip from Phoenix TV in Hong Kong about the … Continue reading →

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