Because I find myself in the business of tracking memes, I found this picture on the last page of a newly released American graphic novel called “American Born Chinese,” by Gene Luen Yang.

The rest of the page is blank, but the Backdorm Boys reference is clear.

ESWN translated a story that illustrates, for me, the speed at which digital content can go from private to full-on mainstream public in China.  It’s a significantly different understanding of the unspoken rules of Internet privacy, than in say, the U.S..  (Not that these rules aren’t constantly being rewritten: think of the recent Jason Fortuny “sexbaiting” story, in which he…

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Ge Jin, a Ph.D candidate in communications at UC San Diego, whose video clips on Chinese gold farmers and farm owners you might have seen on Youtube, has a full length documentary on the topic, called Gold Farmers.  Check out the film’s website.  It sounds amazing.  Gold farmers, for those readers who…

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Want to find out what good that company is up to in China? Check out this useful English language database of CSR (corporate social responsibility) efforts of organizations in China, officially called the China CSR Map 中国企业社会责任机构指南.  You can search the database by type of organization (business, academic, NGO, government, media, etc.) or field of interest (environment, arts…

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OneWebDay is planning to create an historic event to mark the launch of
OneWebDay by facilitating the largest global online photo collaboration
resulting in a visualization of the web made up of photos posted by
millions of people around the world. This visualization will show the
power of online collaboration. OneWebDay is working…

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