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The Internet and rural education in China

Part 2 of Danwei’s interviews at the 2009 Chinese blogger conference, held in a cave in Lianzhou in November. This clip features rural teachers who use the Internet.

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Carol Lin: “The Flavor of Freedom”

In this interview, Carol Lin (a.k.a. The Carol), a prolific Taiwanese blogger, microblogger, social activist and an all-around digital maven, who is also well known for her photography, shares her thoughts on the lack of development in the Chinese web 2.0 / Internet industry, Taiwan’s uncensored Internet, the opportunity average Chinese people got to “taste the flavor of freedom in an unblocked Internet” during the Olympics, and digitally savvy Chinese netizens.

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Blogger interview: Guo Daxia

An interview with Guo “Daxia” (郭”大虾”), a controversial and prolific grassroots Chinese blogger well-known for tackling many of China’s most sensitive social issues.

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China’s first blogger: Isaac Mao

In this interview, Isaac Mao (毛向辉), China’s first blogger and a self proclaimed “free philosopher of sharism,” talks about how many major news stories in China first break online with local netizens using blogs and other social media tools to find, share, and uncover the truth about issues the mainstream / traditional media aren’t allowed to cover. Mao goes on to speak optimistically about China’s social progress and evolution, assuring that the country is moving toward a modern society very much worth looking forward to.

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Liu Xiaoyuan: I fought the law and the law won

Adam Schokora interviews Liu Xiaoyuan at CNBloggercon 2008.

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Zhai Minglei: CNBloggercon interview

In this interview, Zhai Minglei, a citizen journalist and blogger talks about how he is pleasantly surprised by some developments on the Chinese Internet.

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Zola, citizen journalist

An interview at this year’s Chinese blogger conference with Zola (Zhou Shuguang), a citizen journalist and blogger well-known for covering sensitive events throughout China.

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BloggerCon interviews: Yang Hengjun

In this, the second in a series of short interviews conducted at this year’s Chinese blogger conference, Yang Hengjun, a political espionage novelist and well-known blogger, talks about Chinese netizens’ collective power as ‘human search engines,’ and the domestic Internet censorship machine.

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Blogger Conference interviews: Ping Ke

An interview with Ping Ke of Antiwave.net at the Chinese bloggers’ conference in Guangzhou, November 2008.

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Chinese bloggers conference 2008 November 15 – 16

Announcement of Chinese Bloggers Conference 2008 in Guangzhou.

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