the web: hope for underemployed Chinese grads?

April 17, 2006 by Lyn Jeffery

EBusiness World posts an article from a Nanjing paper on how increasing numbers of Chinese college students are starting their own online businesses. The case in point: a recent college grad with a full-time job who loves fashion and shoes. She started a shoe website and now pulls in RMB 5000 (about US $625) a month–more than her salary. She hasn’t quit her day job…

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“Song of the Grain”: the back story

April 14, 2006 by Lyn Jeffery

I’ll try to stop posting, soon, about GuGe news, but it’s awfully juicy at the moment.

Donews has a great E-Business World article describing the events that led up to the choice of a Chinese name for Google. According the the article, Google’s Chinese name has been on the drawing board ever since the company hired its first Chinese employee in…

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Mashing-up Google’s “Song of the Grain”

April 14, 2006 by Lyn Jeffery

China’s bloggers are having a field day with Google’s new Chinese
name. Postshow showcases a few visions of what the new logo might look
like (link):

And pundits are coming up with all sorts of riffs on what other Google
apps might be called in Chinese. It’s hard to translate Chinese puns…

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Internet Buddhism: a site for Chinese cultural dominance?

April 14, 2006 by Lyn Jeffery

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Greg Walton has a rich, thoughtful post on Buddhism in the Internet age, in which he directs us to the World Buddhist Forum being held April 13-16 in Hangzhou, China. The WBF site contains links to speeches and articles by Buddhist scholars and luminaries, one of which is an article titled, “A Brief Discussion on…

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Featured Artist: Choc_Orange

April 14, 2006 by Jason Li

Choc_Orange does it again!

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“Song of the Grain”: Google’s Chinese name

April 13, 2006 by Lyn Jeffery

The birth of GuGe, pronounced Goo Guh.

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what Baidu’s up against

April 13, 2006 by Lyn Jeffery

Maoxianjia at China Tech Stories translates an interview with Robin Li, CEO of Baidu. Li notes:

The search market in China is very special in the world. What special
about it? Everywhere in the world, search is a major part of the
internet market. In the US, it is about $6 billion. Though China is the
second…

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virtual memorial halls

April 13, 2006 by Lyn Jeffery

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The Qingming Festival just passed by a week or two ago–the day when Chinese families all over the world go to pay their respects at the graves of their ancestors. Graves or memorial halls are swept and freshened with flowers, fruit is presented, paper goods are burned.

Much was written in both the Chinese and English-language media about…

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China’s e-government: room for hope

April 12, 2006 by Lyn Jeffery

Min Jiang, at the Department of Communication, Purdue University, has written an information-packed dissertation on the potential and limits of e-government efforts on 30 different provincial Chinese government websites.
The study analyzes four major modes of e-consultation on Chinese
e-governments: Q&A with government, e-petition (or online
Xinfang), online opinion polls, and citizen input boxes. Min Jiang writes:

It appears…

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Netease News: Satirical!

April 11, 2006 by Jason Li

As Linghucong’s blog states, Netease news is becoming coming into its own with increasing amount of feature articles that possess a well-informed, sharp, satirical edge. For example, check out their latest feature: 2046中国包揽诺贝尔奖 (2046 China Nets All Nobel Prizes).

Here’s an excerpt:

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Caption reads, “Remember her, China’s first female Nobel Prize…

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Month: April 2006

the web: hope for underemployed Chinese grads?

“Song of the Grain”: the back story

Mashing-up Google’s “Song of the Grain”

Internet Buddhism: a site for Chinese cultural dominance?

Featured Artist: Choc_Orange

“Song of the Grain”: Google’s Chinese name

what Baidu’s up against

virtual memorial halls

China’s e-government: room for hope

Netease News: Satirical!