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From the News BBS at Netease 网易, a discussion of how truthful you can be on Netease BBS. Could be a shill for Netease (as some of the commenters point out), but even so the discussion is interesting for its candid discussion of life in Virtual China–at least for those who want to discuss the news.  The…

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Let’s do a fun little exercise.

Let’s compare profile pictures of MySpace.cn’s China and international users.

Note, however, that we hold the international users classification on MySpace.cn suspect — the one profile link that DID work (for me) in the international profiles section led to a white American woman who’s profile didn’t hint at any interest in China.

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Can NOT resist.  Myspace.cn has just opened up and you must take a look if you haven’t already.  It’s almost worth creating a MySpace page.

The front page shows 3 mainland Chinese users and 3 international users, and they can all friend each other.  How do they choose who gets on the page as international users?  Unclear.  But Tom is every…

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Came across this during my car roaming yesterday.  The China Motor Vehicle Documentation Centre, founded in the Netherlands in 1972 and currently located in France, publishes a series of what look like wonderful books on automotive history of China and North Korea. They have, for instance, a book on the history of the Hongqi (Red Flag) limousines, made by…

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2007 Auto Shanghai (English site here) opened over the weekend and is exhibiting all this week. There were over 100,000 people on the first day. The theme of the show is “Technology and Nature in Harmony.”  Kind of different!  I know that Shanghai planners are serious, and aware, of the issues related to car ownership in the city.  With…

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非常真人，非常娱乐 (Very Real People, Very Entertaining) is a blog that posts short, amusing photo-comics of every day life in Beijing. Whose life? In most cases it’s the middle-class youth. Even though I don’t find every comic funny, the photography and the postures employed in each scene are pure gold.

Here’s an example of an entry I found particularly funny (translation in…

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Memedia is a Chinese blogging collective that, as I noted last month, is a project of Isaac Mao’s among others.  It’s going strong with its 6th issue (looks like the longest yet!) put out on 4/22.  What Memedia is doing is a quantum leap into opening up dialogue and understanding across the Chinese- and English-language blogospheres and other virtual environments. …

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Today I happened to see these pictures…

There were many more photos on the blog More photos that reflect those students’ lifes in western China…Very impressive, and as a person grew up in big city in China, I’ve never experienced this kind of…

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Citizen journalist site Moobol.com 直播客, which is run by China Daily, is running a “day in my life” photo contest that will be over on Wed. April 25.  As described on the site:

Record the most real day in your or someone around you’s life.  Is your current life busy or leisurely? A riot of color or boring…

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For those who are following the tuangou scene: www.xcar.com.cn, one of the most popular Chinese car websites, has a section for tuangou that you can see here.  As the image above shows, you’ll see a list of cars and information about the model type, the organizer, the dates of registration (in this case a…

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