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Postshow points us to a grassroots anti-GuGe campaign being waged by some hardcore Chinese Google fans. As of 10:40 pm Monday evening April 17, 944 had signed an online petition against using the new Chinese language name, GuGe “谷歌”. 468 prefer the original English name (indeed, the Chinese version is the first time Google has changed its name…
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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…
Continue readingMashing-up Google’s “Song of the Grain”
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…
Continue readingInternet Buddhism: a site for Chinese cultural dominance?
The birth of GuGe, pronounced Goo Guh.
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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…
Continue readingvirtual memorial halls