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a ticket to Shangri La

Posted on by kathrinehoersted

We’ve got a wonderful new contributor at Virtual China — Kathrine Hoersted, Danish social anthropologist. Kathrine is going to be exploring non-Han (something like 90% of mainland China identifies as belonging to the Han group) Chinese virtual places and spaces.  Think Tibetan, Mongolian, Uighur, Naxi, and more.  We’re trying to map out where non-Han online activity and expression shows up, and how much of it…

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China’s “denied access” doll

Posted on by Lyn Jeffery

Reporters Without Borders: The Chinese authorities seem to have stopped blocking access to the
international version of Google’s search engine, Google.com. Tests
carried out by Reporters Without Borders show that it is again
accessible in Beijing and Shanghai. Google’s unblocking tends to
confirm the theory that online censorship was stepped up for the
anniversary of the Tiananmen Square…

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PBS on China; and, see your English language website in Chinese

Posted on by Lyn Jeffery

PBS NewsHour did a piece yesterday on the current state of Chinese Internet censorship.  Speakers included an anonymous Chinese software engineer, Orville Schell (Dean of UC Berkeley’s School of Journalism), Xiao Qiang (China news aggregator and media activist extraordinaire), and Minxin Pei (Carnegie Endowment and wellknown China scholar).

Much of what was said was not new if you’ve been following the issues, but…

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top websites investigate, rectify their content

Posted on by Lyn Jeffery

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DoNews reports the announcement of the first results from the self-censoring clean-up campaign undertaken by 14 Chinese major portals.  The movement is referred to by the phrase above, zicha zijiu, lit. self-investigate, self-rectify. The 14 Beijing-based portals include Sina.com, Sohu.com, Netease, Tom.com, Qianlong.com, and Yahoo’s China portal.  On April 17, 11 of these released…

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Internet Buddhism: a site for Chinese cultural dominance?

Posted on by Lyn Jeffery

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Greg Walton has a rich, thoughtful post on Buddhism in the Internet age, in which he directs us to the World Buddhist Forum being held April 13-16 in Hangzhou, China.  The WBF site contains links to speeches and articles by Buddhist scholars and luminaries, one of which is an article titled, “A Brief Discussion on…

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CyberAsia conversations

Posted on by Lyn Jeffery

There is a series of conversations being organized in the Netherlands on Chinese online politics and culture, which appear to be things you can stream live and participate in via IRC, or at the least, download and view after the fact.   One took place last night (ahem…should have read those emails earlier!), but the others are happening tomorrow and later in the month.  Here goes:…

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