more online revenge

June 26, 2006 by Lyn Jeffery

In line with Howard French’s NYT article “Mob Rule on China’s Internet: the Keyboard as Weapon,” China Daily reports that a young woman in Shandong has taken out her anger at her father’s infidelity via the web. The college freshman produced an “Anti-mistress website” with details of the affair that led to her parents’ divorce this year. As China Daily notes,…

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Chinese portal rankings

June 25, 2006 by Lyn Jeffery

iResearch has compiled the Alexa data for us: Sina has the greatest reach (defined as how many Alexa users per million are using it everyday. Alexa says that in the last 3 months of this year, Sina’s reach has grown by another 8%.

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Featured Art: explosives create art!

June 25, 2006 by Jason Li

From the 佐佐佑 Donews blog, art created by explosives:

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The comment underneath (by Fwolf) states, “Rich, really rich.”

Via PostShow.

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520 Netbar, Beijing

June 24, 2006 by Jason Li

Reporting from an up-scale netbar (520数码天地) in Chaoyang, Beijing.

Here, seats are grouped into single-computer cocoons & round-table group-play canopies on top of the usual cluster-rows. The Saturday-afternoon clientele includes expatriate youth.

Below are the top 10 shows watched, all free once you pay the hourly computer usage fee:

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They are, in order:

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cyberChina business models may look strange on Wall Street

June 22, 2006 by Lyn Jeffery

This June 8 editorial by Chinese journalist Tang Yuankai in the Bangladesh The New Nation points out a few of the ways that Chinese internet companies are creating their own business models, and also how these new business models come into conflict with Wall Street analysts’ ideas about how to run a business.

Alibaba is devoted to…

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Photo Report of NetBars in ZhengZhou

June 22, 2006 by Jason Li

Reporting from Zheng Zhou (a fast-growing second-tier city and the capital of the Henan province).

The entrance of one (seemingly disguised as semi-studious?):

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The inside of another, filled with the usual crop of teenagers using IM, watching soaps, playing online games, and surfing the web:

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And inside the same NetBar, posters of some…

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Young Tibetans on the internet

June 20, 2006 by kathrinehoersted

Lhamo Tsering is a young Tibetan woman who lives in a village with her family in the Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Dechen. In 2003 I did anthropological research for my master’s thesis and Lhamo and her family graciously offered me to live with them. I stayed with them for seven months.

Most village houses have electricity for lighting, but…

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Asian Backdorm Boys 后舍男生 update

June 20, 2006 by Lyn Jeffery

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Our Taiwanese contributor Nydia Chen points out that the famous “Asian Backstreet Boys,” aka the “Backdorm Boys” 后舍男生, have a lot going on these days. They’ve become celebrities in China with many videos beyond the original “As Long As I Love You.”

They have their own blog, with all of their…

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Henan student riots

June 19, 2006 by Lyn Jeffery

ESWN has translations and photos from BBS posts about student riots (and yes, they really were riots) at Shengda Economics, Trade and Management College of Zhengzhou University in Henan last week. As ESWN notes, this is another clear case of mainstream media getting their reports directly from BBS posts. It also highlights the anger that many college and university students are feeling today…

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a ticket to Shangri La

June 19, 2006 by kathrinehoersted

We’ve got a wonderful new contributor at Virtual China — Kathrine Hoersted, Danish social anthropologist. Kathrine is going to be exploring non-Han (something like 90% of mainland China identifies as belonging to the Han group) Chinese virtual places and spaces. Think Tibetan, Mongolian, Uighur, Naxi, and more. We’re trying to map out where non-Han online activity and expression shows up, and how much of it…

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Category: Virtual China

more online revenge

Chinese portal rankings

Featured Art: explosives create art!

520 Netbar, Beijing

cyberChina business models may look strange on Wall Street

Photo Report of NetBars in ZhengZhou

Young Tibetans on the internet

Asian Backdorm Boys 后舍男生 update

Henan student riots

a ticket to Shangri La