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From a strip entitled 阿狸的故事 (Ali’s Story).

As always subtitles in red.

Link to strip on Sina.
Link to author’s blog (where there are color, painted works of Ali).

A tour of 50 photos that “testify to the real life of the peasants over the last 50 years” has been put together by a blogger and reposted on Tianya BBS.  It’s got many great pictures, though unfortunately there are no specific dates or origins on them.  For instance:

Members of a people’s commune put on Mao buttons together

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Number two on a Baidu search for 农民网 is Jiangsu’s Modern Peasant 现代农民, a site run by the provincial committee for implementing a policy called "万名科技专家兴农富民工程" — can’t quite understand it, but something like "Scientific Experts Promoting Rural Wealth and Rural Projects."  It’s a government site listing current policies, meetings, and projects.  Not much human interest here.

The next is…

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“Does practical mean worth keeping?
Last year, 5,318 pets were abandoned.
Think twice before you get one.”

Created for the SPCA (HK) by 香港奧美廣告, via Longyin Review.

(Via ChineseInternetResearch)       Quacor.com — “The world first website for copyright movie absolutely free!” launched last weekend in Beijing.  You can download everything from Minority Report to Pepsi commercials with Chinese basketball player Yao Ming, to a treasure of Chinese films. Since I can’t download yet (the old Mac problem, I suspect), I…

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From RConversation, referring to blogs influencing mainstream international media:

“So. It’s time to gather some comprehensive data about just how journalistically influential the Sino-blogosphere has become.

Want to help me out?”

She wants:

• to survey how much journalists use blogs for story research.
• for blogger’s “concrete examples you might have of…

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From a children’s book entitled: 画童学画, 武器装备 (Drawing & Learning for Children, Arms Equipment):

I love the way the page is compartmentalized for its many uses: learning to draw, learning the character, the phrase, and even a place for stickers.

Via Danwei, via sinosplice.

From a comic entitled 江湖 (temporary translation: “Sword Society”).

As always, translations in maroon.

Link to original strip on Sina.

Just finished the eye-opening Will the Boat Sink the Water? The Life of Chinese Peasants, the English translation of The Chinese Peasant Investigation 中国农民调查, originally published in 2004 and banned two months after publication.  It’s a fast, good read, and sounds awfully familiar if you’ve read any Chinese history–case after case of Chinese peasants trying desperately to make…

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Joy Chan 陈佼, who regularly posts insightful comments on China’s IT/Web2.0 world, posted an informal analysis of Chinese video-sharing sites 视频站点 on Nov. 6 that has gotten a lot of play in the Chinese blogosphere.

Chan points out that Google’s purchase of Youtube caused some anxiety among video sites in China, since it’s a path that none of…

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