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Lecher Catcher Alliance

Posted on by Jason Li

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抓色狼联盟 (The Lecher Catcher Alliance) is essentially a collection of BBS’s for people to report on and bitch about the perverts that they’ve randomly run into / regularly see. BBS sections include a perverts photo gallery (none yet!) and plans for action.

Via PostShow.

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Moli Baobei/Crossgate 魔力宝贝 BBS

Posted on by Lyn Jeffery

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Why is it that one of China’s “classic” games of the past 4 years is still virtually invisible on the English language web?  I Googled it, I Google Blog searched it, I tried to Technorati it but couldn’t get through on this particular Chinese server, I Google News’d it, I Terra Nova’d it, I Pacific Epoch’d it (and I Donews’d it for…

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Bilis on the BBS

Posted on by Lyn Jeffery

Tropical Storm Bilis hit southern China over the weekend, killing over 200 people, flooding major
cities, sweeping away houses and cutting railways, power and water supplies. The BBS forums are full of first person reports and comments on the effects of the storm, as well as evaluations of offical responses.  You can clearly see how the BBS is acting as a space…

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China’s blog portals: expanding public communication space

Posted on by Lyn Jeffery

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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…

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Manchus online

Posted on by kathrinehoersted

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.

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Qiren.cn is a Chinese language website made and used by Manchus. In a…

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different design traditions: 1957 contraceptive billboards

Posted on by Lyn Jeffery

Have been checking out the QQ.com BBS.  QQ.com is currently the 7th most popular site in the world, according to Alexa.com.

Yesterday someone posted two extraordinary photos of billboard ads for contraception from 1957. This would have just 8 years after the founding of the PRC. From these we get a reminder that the U.S.…

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Henan student riots

Posted on by Lyn Jeffery

ESWN has translations and photos from BBS posts about student riots (and yes, they really were riots) at Shengda Economics, Trade and Management College of Zhengzhou University in Henan last week. As ESWN notes, this is another clear case of mainstream media getting their reports directly from BBS posts. It also highlights the anger that many college and university students are feeling today…

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Mission Impossible helps sell “documents”

Posted on by Jason Li

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ESWN reports: A screen capture of the new Mission Impossible 3 movie has been floating around on the BBS’s recently. On it is what some call “history’s most awesome small advertisement” – a telephone number for getting “documents.” Author of ESWN, Roland Soong, decides to call up the number and ask for fake ID documents in order to…

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