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Stock market analysis site Seeking Alpha‘s China section has a summary of research on Chinese blogs done by China Market Research, a group in Shanghai. CMR estimates that 80% of Chinese online urban youth 18-25 (50 million people) are actively blogging OR participating in BBS. Add in another 25 million between the ages…
Continue readingChina’s blog portals: expanding public communication space
What I predict will be the next video-meme in virtual china: 中国队勇夺世界杯冠军 (China Wins the World Cup), uploaded to Toodou by digitalput@. This great video montage of movies and World Cup scenes sarcastically recounts the fictional victory of China in the 2006 World Cup.
Link to full 19-minute video on Toudou.
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Continue readingChina Wins the World Cup!
The phenomenon is known as “小胖” (Little Fatty). Forum posts about it go
as far back as 2003, but it still manages to pop up here and there.
First there was a photograph from an unknown source:
Then came the photoshop spoofs! For example:
And:
For more…
Continue readingThe Chinese Star Wars Kid?
From a strip entitled 傻妹子日記 (Diary of a Silly Little Girl). I’ve only translated the first panel, which I feel is pretty representative of the entire strip.
As always, translations in maroon:
Link to original comic on sina.
The Manchu people are one of the 56 officially recognized ethnic minority groups in China. They count around 10 million people and thus make up the 4th biggest ethnic group – the Han being the biggest, followed by the Zhung and the Hui.
Qiren.cn is a Chinese language website made and used by Manchus. In a…
Continue readingManchus online
I’ve been trying to understand more about both new features and competition in the Chinese search engines market–with an eye toward having something to say about where innovation is happening and how ideas are flowing from one online space to another. (Tip: if you’re interested in search, you have to visit Webmaster World.com’s excitingly useful Asia Pacific Search Engine…
Continue readingUser-generated Q&A in Virtual China
(This post is my interpretation/summary of two ESWN articles entitled Red Rubber Ball & Freedom of Identity, Speech and Assembly on the Internet.)
This all began when someone, somewhere thought that a Japanese company bought some Netease shares. The same certain someone (or some people) then noticed that one of the…
Continue readingMMORPG love for Japan
Our Taiwanese contributor Nydia Chen pointed us to a blog that has taken the Chinese blogosphere by storm over the past few months. Acosta’s blog launched in early March, and current traffic rates stand at 15,555,589 visitors since then. “Acosta’s” poetic prose, celebrity name-dropping, fashionable clothing and artsy photos depict a wealthy yet casual lifestyle that seems attractive to many…
Continue readingChinese young man-of-mystery blog phenom