Real Name Registration One Month Later

April 23, 2012 by An Xiao Mina

Translation: (left) Real name registration (right) Weibo

Real name registration has come and gone. The article Tricia and I penned for Wired noted some of the dangers behind the requirements to register one’s real name (it’s quite rigorous – you have to include your identification card):

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China Meme Report

A Curated History of the Grass Mud Horse Song

February 7, 2012 by An Xiao Mina

As I thought about how to kick off the China Meme Report, I was overwhelmed. The Chinese internet is huge–some 500 million people are logging on each day, and nearly half of those are using microblogs. As in Twitter, Chinese microblogs like Sina Weibo and Tencent Weibo are feeding grounds of some amazing memes.

Fortunately,…

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Black market pornography is big

November 22, 2011 by Jason Li

From Danwei’s A brief history of Chinese porn:

Despite the worlds most sophisticated monitoring and filtering software arrayed against them, tech savvy Chinese jump the Great Firewall with ease. For those less computer literate, pirated porn DVDs and VCDs are easy to buy if rarely on display. Porn is big business on the black market. In one 2008 bust…

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Real Name Registration One Month Later

A Curated History of the Grass Mud Horse Song

Black market pornography is big