December 26, 2007, was the 111th Birthday of Mao Zedong. Chinese people held various ceremonies to memorize the first Chairman of the People’s Republic of China. In Beijing, over ten thousand people visited Chairman Mao Memorial Hall (mausoleum) to see dear Chairman Mao’s body. In Mao’s hometown, Shao Shan…

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Since September, 2007, Shanghai government released a new regulation about house renting, in which group rentals are considered harmful and have to be got rid of. Lots of apartments were checked and walls were destroyed by government people. Young people living in this kind of apartment were persuaded or even forced to sign a paper and move away in a certain period of time. Let’s…

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The Third Chinese Bloggers Conference was held in Beijing yesterday, Nov, 3. Around 200 people took part in the first day event. In the two-day conference, they are going to discuss and share different  opinions about various topics, such as: SNS and the First Life; Wiki in Mainland China; The Chinese Bloggesphere in western scholars’ eyes and why they are…

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It seems that today Chinese users could visit YouTube again since it was blocked on Oct 14.  It was really terrible when I heard YouTube was blocked half a month ago. Quite a lot of people considered that it was for the National Congress which was held from Oct 15 to Oct 21.

Here is the impressive Second Life documentary by China Tracy, an 29 year-old alternative female artist, from Guangzhou, China, who was also invited by iCommons to give a lecture on iSummit this year in June.
To watch the whole film, please check here.  You could also find this documentary on YouTube and many other…

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Just got to know Xiao i, a funny and smart robot created by Incesoft, when I attended the weekly 5G workshop in Shanghai this weekend. 5G is considered as a multiple meeting focus on Internet, new media, and innovation in Web2.0 style. It is initiated by Donews, the popular IT community & Media platform, and the…

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Mr. Fan Jianxiang, who owns “Oriental Tea House” restaurants across Russia, is also a passionate collector of about 400 pieces of Soviet Union realism art works, mostly from the Soviet Union period since 1931, and mostly in Socialist Realist style.  Mr. Fan has opened a gallery at Chingning Library in Shanghai. This gallery will open formally in June and charge 20MRB/ person.…

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Today I happened to see these pictures…

There were many more photos on the blog More photos that reflect those students’ lifes in western China…Very impressive, and as a person grew up in big city in China, I’ve never experienced this kind of…

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Japanese style poster of Neocha (partial poster, see link for full poster)

Last Saturday, April 14, I took part in an exciting youth party held by www.neocha.com. I was so impressed to see so many young people, some were local while some were obviously from other countries, eg. America, Britain and Japan, Korea…

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[Note: this post written by Nan Yang in Shanghai: we’re hoping she’ll become a regular on Virtual China! –Lyn]

I know three middle aged/old Chinese persons using internet, not only for fun.

Here are their stories.

The first story is about my mother and her internet lovers.

My mother is an English…

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