BBS today: your favorite poisonous snacks

June 7, 2006 by Lyn Jeffery

This BBS photo post from June 2, has received about 670,000 visits in the last few days. And why not? The author reveals the poisonous secrets of everyone’s favorite street snacks. Each snack has its own photo, with ratings of up to 5 stars denoting how much harm it causes and how much everyone loves it, “key word” ingredients, and the criminal acts…

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Chinese Photographers Association official website

May 26, 2006 by Lyn Jeffery

Check out the works of some of China’s professional photographers to get a sense of how things look through a Chinese lens.

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link to Fu Jianyong’s 傅建勇 lucid, northern b+w shots of manual laborers and their kids on constructions worksites and at rest (examples below)
link to Zeng Ziqiang’s …

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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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no profit, no choice: sexual content in virtual China

May 9, 2006 by Lyn Jeffery

Even though I know that just writing about it here means this post will turn up the next time someone searches for “china porn,” this 4/18 Southern Daily article, “Portals Flooded With Sexual Content for Page Views; The Profit-less Can’t Be Choosy,” provides some useful insights.

Some have alleged that the more sophisticated net users have all gone to…

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a sea of consumers

May 8, 2006 by Lyn Jeffery

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.

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for the love of railroad station architecture

May 5, 2006 by Lyn Jeffery

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

May 3, 2006 by Lyn Jeffery

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

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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Chinese Youtube/Myspace wanna-be, plus mainstream media

May 1, 2006 by Lyn Jeffery

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Another excellent Pacific Epoch interview, this one with Buddy Ye, the co-founder and CEO of Wangyou Media, a company that provides a platform for users to share audio, video, and photo content, with mobile services as well. They call themselves a cross between Myspace and Youtube, and you can see elements of both in the interface. The…

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