BBS today: your favorite poisonous snacks
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more on online housing protest
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It will be very interesting to see where this goes. China Digital Times tagged a longer Pacific Epoch Epoch Times article here. Zou Tao, the founder of the NotBuyHouse movement, has a blog here and a general website for the NotBuyHouse Alliance here. A couple of important points. First, Zou Tao…
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bloggers on China’s love of BBS: how come?
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BBS for breaking news and commentary: an explosion
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As we’ve noted before, Chinese BBS forums are probably the best way to a) track current news in China; b) get a sense of which breaking news items people want to discuss; and c) collect a wide range of commentary on very current events.
Case in point: Yesterday, May 17, there was a massive explosion at a port…
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a sea of consumers
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The May Day vacation has apparently succeeded in spurring Chinese consumers onward and upward. This Sichuan water park has 20,000 revelers. As one Netease commentator asks: is it vacation or is it misery?
Link for more photos of May Day vacation crowds.
for the love of railroad station architecture
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In the spirit of May Day travels, a dedicated Netease poster has a treasure trove for railroad architecture enthusiasts: dozens of Chinese stations. The one above is from Kunming, the capital of southwestern Yunnan province. One of my favorites.
The post has been viewed over 670,000 times since May 1, and has over 1600 comments.
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May Day BBS: from labor to leisure
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The May Day holiday, with May 1 International Workers Day as its center, is a time for Chinese throughout the country to consider the radical changes in ideas about labor and work. Throughout the 1950s, 60s, 70s, and 80s May Day was a large-scale secular holiday that celebrated the labor of peasants and the proletariat with vast parades and nationally…
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May Day in Virtual China
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China is in an uproar for the next week as millions take off for vacations or visits home during the national weeklong May Day holiday. Online, vacationers are:
- trading info about hard-to-find train tickets (one post simply reads: leave your date, travel route, and cell phone number. I’ll get tickets for you.);
- giving…
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BBS today: irresistible Chinese army recruiting posters
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A NetEase BBS forum thread called “super-pretty PLA recruiting ads” opens up the discussion with the question:
“If you were a hotblooded young man, how could you not support this?”
Selected comments (most are along the lines of “great photos!”):
I’d like to join but I’m too old.
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top websites investigate, rectify their content
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