Category Archives: Internet

Three legal pieces

Posted on 2006-06-29 by Joel Martinsen

A student sues her high school because she failed the college entrance exam, renters protest a rent hike, and Huang Jianxiang’s hysterical football commentating may be copyrighted.

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Sina’s celebrity strategy to harness the eyeball economy

Posted on 2006-06-29 by Joel Martinsen

Wang Xiaofeng (王小峰), formerly of Massage Milk fame, writes about how Sina manipulates celebrities to generate news.

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2007: Year of the crane

Posted on 2006-06-29 by Joel Martinsen

Online proposal to replace the rat (鼠), rooster (鸡), snake (蛇), and pig (猪) in the Chinese zodiac with the lion (狮), phoenix (凤), crane (鹤), and fish (鱼).

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Clueless academic takes on popular fantasy novels

Posted on 2006-06-29 by Joel Martinsen

Culture Wars: author Xiao Ding (萧鼎) takes on stuffed shirt Tao Dongfeng (陶东风) over fantasy literature.

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Kicked out of Chinapol

Posted on 2006-06-28 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Philip J. Cunningham explains how he was kicked out of Chinapol, an invite-only listserv popular among Sinologists.

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Brazilian Chinese blog in Portuguese

Posted on 2006-06-28 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Brazil: it’s not just about football. Arquivo China is a newish blog in Portuguese by Brazilian Chinese IM Hsieh. It covers IT, media and China news. From the comments: another Portuguese blog about China, by the Macao-based José Carlos Matias, … Continue reading →

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Crazy CCTV football commentator;
Fictional foreign news?

Posted on 2006-06-27 by Jeremy Goldkorn

During last night’s live broadcast of the Italy – Australia football World Cup game, CCTV’s announcer Huang Jianxiang (黄健翔) got rather excited, and took sides with the Italians, saying things like “Don’t give the Australians any chances!” and after Italy … Continue reading →

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Fictional foreign news?

Beijing rock music: Strung up by hooks

Posted on 2006-06-25 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Harder core than thou Last night Muzi Mei went to a performance by goth-metal band Ling Yi (零一). They dress in clothes that appear to have been drenched in blood, and their performances usually include some type of freak show … Continue reading →

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The Party approves of Jeremy Goldkorn

Posted on 2006-06-23 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Xuer Khawa Dan: hotter than me, but didn’t make the People’s Daily cut A few weeks ago, Newsweek published a long story by Ralph Jennings called The Drifters: Why Young Expatriates Are Heading to Beijing. It told the stories of … Continue reading →

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Google dumps Baidu shares

Posted on 2006-06-23 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Goodbye to Baigoo From the Financial Times: Google sells stake in China’s Baidu Google Inc. has sold its roughly 2 percent stake in rival Baidu.com Inc. on May 25, the market leader in China’s Internet Web search market, according to … Continue reading →

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