ESWN reports on a set of controversial photographs, involving a group of female RenMin Univeristy Graduates, that made their way onto the internet.

Netizen’s initial clamor: “Whores!”

Southern Metropolis Daily’s rebuttal: “Nobody should criticize these female students who are brave enough to set themselves free.”

My take: “Looks like they’re having fun,…

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ESWN has translated a post on ChineseNewsNet about the existential crisis of a mainland Chinese doctoral student at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

Here’s the ending:

“This problem had been present a long time ago, but it only manifested itself much too late.  I believe that this problem is shared by my fellow students.  I believe…

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Spend some time wandering around among the spectacular maps, objects, and Flash video tours of recently excavated materials from the Liao empire (907-1125), online at the Asia Society.  The “Selected Liao Dynasty Sites” section shows you where some of the actual sites are located, ranging across northeastern China, from Liaoning to Hebei.  “Virtual Tours of Liao Tombs” provides a 360 degree turn…

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From a strip called 铁头日志 (Ironhead Journal).

This one’s a pun, so I’ve added some pinyins in (look for the non-English words with numbers at the end). Translations in red.

Link to original strip on Sina.

From BBC News:

“Earlier this week, Microsoft senior counsel Fred Tipson said concerns about repression in China might make it reconsider its presence there.

Mr Tipson was speaking at the first Internet Governance Forum held in Athens which debated many issues of internet policy.

But now Microsoft has said it is “committed” to staying in the country.”

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UPDATED: See part two of this post here.

PostShow links to 十八摸’s article on the etymology of “我顶你个肺” (“I hit your lung”), which I’ve translated below:

”’In the Crazy Stone 《疯狂的石头》movie, the catchphrase of the Hong Kong bandit in the movie, “我顶你个肺” (“I hit your lung”) has come into vogue. No longer confined within…

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ESWN has a post on Star Maps of Chinese Media.

From Roland’s “translation of a description of a talk given by the renowned mainland media verteran Qian Gang (錢剛).”

“Here is how Qian Gang descibed the mainland media through this star map.  He believes in the past, the stars that represent the mainland…

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Who else but Sister Furong 芙蓉姐姐?  On QQ BBS’s weekly top photo picks, over 200,000 have viewed Furong’s latest public appearance, at a hospital in Hangzhou over the weekend to celebrate the 7th annual “Men’s Health Day.”  (Do you think she went to the China Blogger Conference? Um, no).  Personally, I think Furong takes a lot more interesting photos than, say, Paris…

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Brady over at O’Reilly Radar has a post about Anothr, a Skype-based RSS reader that was launched at the recent Chinese Blogger Conference. It IMs you through Skype whenever a feed is updated.

He also offers this observation, “unlike many other bots it is using Skype, reflecting it’s popularity in
China.…

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Reader David sent us this article on VentureBeat that quotes Mercury News as saying:

“‘Silicon Valley is a hotbed’ of economic espionage, said Don Przybyla,
who heads a FBI counterintelligence unit in San Jose. The valley is
home to many of the estimated 3,000 Chinese front companies nationwide
set up to steal secrets and acquire technology,…

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