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“The people’s heroes will never fade”
Chinese UN peacekeeper Lieutenant Colonel Du Zhaoyu was killed in Lebanon by an Israeli rocket on July 25, along with three other UN peacekeepers. China was already not supportive (to say the least) of Israel’s bombing of Lebanon and Lebanese civilians, and this death only adds fire to an…
Continue readingonline memorial for slain Chinese UN peacekeeper
Why is it that one of China’s “classic” games of the past 4 years is still virtually invisible on the English language web? I Googled it, I Google Blog searched it, I tried to Technorati it but couldn’t get through on this particular Chinese server, I Google News’d it, I Terra Nova’d it, I Pacific Epoch’d it (and I Donews’d it for…
Continue readingMoli Baobei/Crossgate 魔力宝贝 BBS
Stock market analysis site Seeking Alpha‘s China section has a summary of research on Chinese blogs done by China Market Research, a group in Shanghai. CMR estimates that 80% of Chinese online urban youth 18-25 (50 million people) are actively blogging OR participating in BBS. Add in another 25 million between the ages…
Continue readingChina’s blog portals: expanding public communication space
I’ve been trying to understand more about both new features and competition in the Chinese search engines market–with an eye toward having something to say about where innovation is happening and how ideas are flowing from one online space to another. (Tip: if you’re interested in search, you have to visit Webmaster World.com’s excitingly useful Asia Pacific Search Engine…
Continue readingUser-generated Q&A in Virtual China
Our Taiwanese contributor Nydia Chen pointed us to a blog that has taken the Chinese blogosphere by storm over the past few months. Acosta’s blog launched in early March, and current traffic rates stand at 15,555,589 visitors since then. “Acosta’s” poetic prose, celebrity name-dropping, fashionable clothing and artsy photos depict a wealthy yet casual lifestyle that seems attractive to many…
Continue readingChinese young man-of-mystery blog phenom