No filters for the word “underground 地下,” apparently, in virtual China.  A Baidu search for “underground films” 地下电影, for instance, reveals Chinese language pages such as Underground Film Forum, a partial list of Chinese underground films from Xici Hutong (which includes Zhang Yimou’s “To Live”, strangely), a review of selected underground Chinese films, and a Baidu Knows question:…

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I see from Danwei that CNNIC has released its 19th China Internet report with data to the end of 2006.  Chinese copies available here.   It seems that the rate of Internet growth is increasing rather than leveling off this year.  They have some good new stats on mobile Internet–now I wish they’d gather IPTV statistics as well.

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Title: Uncle Sam Beats the Drums of War
Published: January 21, 2007. Guangzhou Daily
Artist: Zhang Bin

orange type (sound of the drumbeat): fight or not, fight or not
thought bubble: Iran!

Spring Festival is a month away, but apparently the whole issue of getting home for the festival is a big one for QQ readers–and lots of students are traveling home soon.  QQ BBS editors put out a request about a week ago asking people to send in their Spring Festival travel (Chunyun) 春运 stories from now until 1/25–and…

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A Molive/Moobol story (which, incidentally, was in the top 3 photo-sharing sites in 2006 in China–I prefer it to Tudou and Yoqoo, actually).  Even as poor people (mostly from the countryside) are discriminated against in the cities, as the gap between rich and poor widens to an extent not seen since before the Chinese Communist Party took power in 1949, there is a…

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Tuangou teambuying website China NetCrowd 中国网众 has a special “NetCrowd Oscars” page, which allows users to vote (of course…everything does today, doesn’t it?) on the best tuangou experiences of 2006, that were organized by NetCrowd. If you are interested in getting a sense of what a tuangou …

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Looks like the big news is that Sohu is no longer in the top 3 portals in China, but has been knocked out by Tencent.  55% of Chinese Internet users used Sina last year; 51% hit Netease; 48% used Tencent, according to the Internet Guide 2007 China Internet Survey Report (in Chinese), put out by the Data Center of the Chinese Internet…

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Check out Baidu Zhidao/Baidu Knows Knowledge’s 2006 top ten questions list.  They’ve divided it into four different kinds of questions and provided access to the most commonly asked questions as well as their answers.  If you care to browse in Chinese, all the answers are rated by readers and commented upon.  Here is a very rough translation of the top…

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Big news from the Chinese hardware developer community: the release of several hundred Loongson boxes, Fulong mini-PCs produced by the Chinese company Lemote Technology Corporation, which are powered by the Chinese-developed Loongson 2E processor.  The Loongson boxes are now in the hands of several hundred die-hard programmers in Guiyang, Chengdu, Shanghai, and other big cities, according to an article…

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I’ve been trying to follow the development of China’s IPv6 network, dubbed China Next Generation Internet (CNGI).  Background can be found in this earlier post.  Basically, the CNGI is a bold 5 year plan by Chinese leaders (specifically, the National Development and
Reform Commission (NDRC)) to leapfrog Chinese researchers, businesses, and technologies ahead of current Internet standards and infrastructure by 2009. …

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