Category Archives: Internet

Hu Jintao, Maoist: George Bush, Texan

Posted on 2004-02-07 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Two bloggers fond of covering Chinese Communist Party malfeasance – Peking Duck and Gweilo Diaries – are both crowing over Hu Jintao calling Mao Zedong ‘the pride of the Chinese Communist Party, the Chinese people and the Chinese race’. Sorry … Continue reading →

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Xinjiang blog

Posted on 2004-02-06 by Jeremy Goldkorn

A new blog written by an American in underreported Xinjiang: …musing under the Tenement Palm. He is following news about Xinjiang, among other things.

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Emily Meng owns a sex shop

Posted on 2004-02-01 by Jeremy Goldkorn

This is The G Spot. It’s a small store inside an old residential apartment complex just off Sanlitun, Beijing’s first and most popular bar street. Here are some of the products G Spot sells. The G Spot is owned and … Continue reading →

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US State Department bans typeface

Posted on 2004-01-30 by Jeremy Goldkorn

This is completely off topic: the US State Department has issued a set of visual identity guidelines for all diplomatic and State Department correspondence. The new rules ban the use of Courier New 12 (the former official typeface) and insist … Continue reading →

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Foreskin issues; Microsoft IE logo piracy

Posted on 2004-01-23 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Is your foreskin too long? Well, the Shanghai Hongqiao Hospital (not affiliated to the Hongqiao Airport) can help you out. They can also help you with a problem they call ‘baojing’ which I take to mean that the foreskin covers … Continue reading →

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Blogspot & Google Cache unblocked? Sleeping on the job during Spring Festival or the crumbling of the Great Firewall?

Posted on 2004-01-23 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Last week, in Beijing, I was able to access a site on free blog platform Blogspot.com without using a proxy server to get around the Great Celestial Nanny, aka the Great Firewall. A few hours later it seemed to be … Continue reading →

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Drumming boy

Posted on 2004-01-20 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Beijing digital art studio 8gg.com wishes you an excellent Year of the Monkey. For the full action drumming boy, go to this place and then click on the drums.

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China Daily Napster machine

Posted on 2004-01-19 by Jeremy Goldkorn

The China Daily’s web editor’s are at it again: lifting stories word for word from other publications. This time the victim is, once again, That’s Shanghai. Here is the headline and opening paragraph of the That’s Shanghai story: Not Just … Continue reading →

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Common sense needed in tackling teen sex

Posted on 2004-01-17 by Jeremy Goldkorn

That’s the headline of a story on Xinhuanet, attributed to the China Daily. This is what needs tackling: “China, with about 200 million citizens between 15 and 24 years of age, has 20 million young people enter adolescence each year. … Continue reading →

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A new online game in China every 10 days; 79.5 million Internet users

Posted on 2004-01-17 by Jeremy Goldkorn

A Xinhua article written in rather pleasant Chinglish has the following stats about Internet useage in China: – On December 31, 2003 there were 79.5 million Internet users in China, still number 2 after the USA. – The number is … Continue reading →

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