Cultural Artifact: An everlasting brand
Posted on by Jason Li
Category: Virtual China
New route for publishing?
Posted on by Jason Li
EastSouthWestNorth reports on the publication of How Can I Not Slaughter You (叫我如何不宰你), a book about Shenzhen tour guides “slaughtering” tourists:
“This is an example of a business model in the Internet age. First, one develops a concept for a book. Under normal circumstances, it would be hard to find a publisher for a controversial proposal…
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Hong Kong is tougher: arrest of another file-sharer
Posted on by Lyn Jeffery
Photo: The Standard, Friday May 12, 2006
link to article
It looks like Hong Kong is taking a different approach to filesharing than the rest of the mainland.
A 16 year old Hong Kong student was arrested yesterday by the Hong Kong Customs Anti-Internet Piracy Team for hosting and sharing 600 pirated songs and about 20 movies. …
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Guge still gets to back alleys of virtual China
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Web Novel Makes Splash
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Teenager drops out of high school. He pursues writing. He enters Sina’s online writing competition. He wins. He receives high praise from the judges. He is to be published by Zhaohua Publishing House.
Is this a one off phenomenon, or is the internet providing alternate gateways for expression (for those who don’t follow the traditional path of school)?
Source:…
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Netease Club Hacked!
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网易社区, Netease’s online social space, located at club.163.com has been hacked! See:
The question (floating around the Chinese web) is, what did they do to provoke this, and who did they do it to?
Via PostShow.
Featured Art Space: Lijiang Studio
Posted on by Lyn Jeffery
Get a sense of the thriving art scene in Lijiang, Yunnan Province (like Dali, Lijiang is a home-away-from-home for China’s elite artists, from film-makers and painters to sculptors and writers).
Lijiang Studio provides living space, working space, and facilitation
for international, Chinese, and local artists in two locations: one
rural location,…
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no profit, no choice: sexual content in virtual China
Posted on by Lyn Jeffery
China’s Independent Internet
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a sea of consumers
Posted on by Lyn Jeffery
The May Day vacation has apparently succeeded in spurring Chinese consumers onward and upward. This Sichuan water park has 20,000 revelers. As one Netease commentator asks: is it vacation or is it misery?
Link for more photos of May Day vacation crowds.