more online revenge

June 26, 2006 by Lyn Jeffery

In line with Howard French’s NYT article “Mob Rule on China’s Internet: the Keyboard as Weapon,” China Daily reports that a young woman in Shandong has taken out her anger at her father’s infidelity via the web. The college freshman produced an “Anti-mistress website” with details of the affair that led to her parents’ divorce this year. As China Daily notes,…

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Young Tibetans on the internet

June 20, 2006 by kathrinehoersted

Lhamo Tsering is a young Tibetan woman who lives in a village with her family in the Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Dechen. In 2003 I did anthropological research for my master’s thesis and Lhamo and her family graciously offered me to live with them. I stayed with them for seven months.

Most village houses have electricity for lighting, but…

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Henan student riots

June 19, 2006 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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more on online housing protest

June 5, 2006 by Lyn Jeffery

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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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Chinese blogs can drive quick public action

May 26, 2006 by Lyn Jeffery

We all have our own ideas about what charity is and how to make it happen. Charity on the Chinese mainland takes place within the context of socialist class ideologies, Chinese Buddhism, newly resurrected pre-revolutionary civic structures, Chinese-style non-governmental organizations, and emerging Western-influenced philanthropy.

In the last few years, bloggers have also voiced social justice issues, such as the “BMW case”…

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Olympics watch on Virtual China

May 22, 2006 by Lyn Jeffery

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link to the English-language official Chinese 2008 Olympics website

The 2008 Olympics watch on Virtual-China.org officially begins now. Yes, we’re a bit late to the game (see more on years of efforts here), but our focus will, of course, be how 2008 plays out in virtual China, both in Chinese and in English.

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BBS for breaking news and commentary: an explosion

May 18, 2006 by Lyn Jeffery

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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Hong Kong is tougher: arrest of another file-sharer

May 11, 2006 by Lyn Jeffery

Customs_1 Photo: The Standard, Friday May 12, 2006
link to article

It looks like Hong Kong is taking a different approach to filesharing than the rest of the mainland.

A 16 year old Hong Kong student was arrested yesterday by the Hong Kong Customs Anti-Internet Piracy Team for hosting and sharing 600 pirated songs and about 20 movies. …

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May Day in Virtual China

May 1, 2006 by Lyn Jeffery

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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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global “e-readiness” report

April 28, 2006 by Lyn Jeffery

The Economic Intelligence Unit and IBM have released their 2005 E-readiness Rankings, a report which assesses various nations’ and regions’ abilities to “promote and support digital business and information and communications technology (ICT) services.” The ranking system in and of itself, as well as the notion that e-practices will evolve along some known continuum (at one point…

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more online revenge

Young Tibetans on the internet

Henan student riots

more on online housing protest

Chinese blogs can drive quick public action

Olympics watch on Virtual China

BBS for breaking news and commentary: an explosion

Hong Kong is tougher: arrest of another file-sharer

May Day in Virtual China

global “e-readiness” report