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radical vocabularies in virtual China

March 29, 2006 by iftf

According the blog China Confidential, China’s Internet monitors are becoming concerned about radical “leftist” (meaning, ultra-socialist or communist) language online. The kinds of things that might warrant special attention?

Unorthodox, repeated references to Lenin, say, or Lin Biao (Mao’s Long
March comrade-in-arms, who disappeared after a supposed coup attempt
during the Cultural Revolution but nevertheless remains an…

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Vblogging from urban China, in English

March 29, 2006 by Lyn Jeffery

Jeremy Goldkorn has been one of the most visible people behind the Chinese advertising and media-watching blog Danwei for the last several years. Check out his latest contribution to virtual China — “Danwei TV.” They’ve got two brilliant clips, one on the big buildings going up in Beijing in preparation for the 2008 Olympics; and one that introduces…

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Top 10 Junk Foods of the 70s and 80s

March 28, 2006 by Jason Li

Includes food items such as 老鼠屎 (rat poop, not literally) and 棉花糖 (cotton candy). Site here.

Link courtesy of PostShow. (Thank you Mr. Pescovitz for spotting the missing link!)

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Stats on IPTV, digital music, online gaming

March 28, 2006 by Lyn Jeffery

In January I attended an event in San Jose put on by market research firm In-Stat, looking at a range of small but growing markets in Asia and specifically in mainland China.

They have some great downloadable ppt reports that include basic background and informed forecasts of online gaming, IPTV (which they define as “video service displayed on a TV…

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for cosplay fans

March 28, 2006 by Lyn Jeffery

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Cosplay, the whole world of dressing up as characters from video games, is alive and well in China. You can see a whole array of game-inspired art, masquerade, and photography here, at the game zone of Tom.com. Frankly, I can’t even begin to identify the games from which these characters come. Scroll down…

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Virtual World Steps into Real World

March 27, 2006 by Jason Li

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QQ is starting to offer their own brand of instant noodles at net cafes. (The American equivalent would be AOL Instant Messenger branded instant pizza.)

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NetEase BBS does Shaolin

March 27, 2006 by Lyn Jeffery

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A view on kungfu from Virtual China: how can we resist? Chinese netizens weigh in on photos from a recent performance of Shaolin monks in San Francisco on March 12. There are a few pictures from the performance plus a series of other stills from unknown sources. What are Chinese saying about the marketing of something seen as quintessentially “Chinese”? Commentators fall…

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China’s BBS for breaking news

March 27, 2006 by Lyn Jeffery

One of the biggest immediate differences between mainland Chinese Internet practices and those here in the US, is the use of Bulletin Board Systems. A great place to start is this post at ESWN, which provides a “general comparative analysis” of news media in China, Hong Kong, and the US, and highlighting the relationship of China’s BBS to mainstream media. Excerpts:

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