Category Archives: Internet

Rolling Stone: raped but still alive

Rolling Stonewalled Hao Fang (郝舫), the editor of China Rolling Stone, has put a scan of the cover of the second issue of the magazine on his blog. He titled the post Smells Like Rolling Stone Spirit, and subtitled it: … Continue reading →

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QQ fan Photoshops or QQ advertising?

The image reproduced here is from an interesting page on the Tianya forum that contains a bunch of Chinese and Western movie posters that have been Photoshopped — ‘PS’ in Chinese Net slang — to look like advertisements for QQ, … Continue reading →

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New York Times definitely not blocked in Beijing

The New York Times website is working perfectly, as tested from four different Internet connections in the capital this evening. Perhaps it is a Passover gift to the Jews of Beijing. Hach Sameach! However, it seems that the problem was … Continue reading →

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Chinese media and the countryside

The China Daily has published an opinion piece by You Nuo called Media must update on countryside. The article calls for Chinese media to pay more attention to the countryside: Occasionally, when there are articles about the new countryside, like … Continue reading →

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Me Old China

Here’s a new China website that looks promising: Me Old China.

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Hitler applies for an English teaching job

Somebody has placed the following advertisement on the jobs wanted section of That’s Beijing’s website, together with the image reproduced here: Frau Rebecca, I am a 117 year old German expat who is looking for a teaching job in das … Continue reading →

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Is the New York Times website blocked in China?

Readers in Shenzhen have emailed to say that NYTimes.com is being blocked. In Beijing it was functioning, although very slowly, and it wasn’t clear if the problem was related to the redesign of Grey Lady’s website or caused by something … Continue reading →

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Xinjiang blog, Xinjiang music

The Opposite End of China is a blog written by an American in Xinjiang. He has recently been writing about Uyghur music and posting videos of Uyghur and faux-Uyghur pop music. In the post Listening to Xinjiang, he links to … Continue reading →

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February Girl has a blog

February Girl at rest ESWN recently translated a post on the Tianya forum by February Girl (二月丫头) that starts like this: I have been posting photographs one after another at Tianya’s True Self Community Forum. Some were pretty, and others … Continue reading →

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Danwei TV 3: Thomas Shao of Modern Media

Danwei TV Hard Hat Show interviews publisher Thomas Shao.

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