top websites investigate, rectify their content

April 17, 2006 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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aesthetics of abundance, cont.

March 31, 2006 by Lyn Jeffery

Check out the difference in number of categories to search at the very top of the page for 2 major American portals (Yahoo and MSN) and 2 major Chinese portals (Sohu and Sina).

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Virtual World Steps into Real World

March 27, 2006 by Jason Li

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QQ is starting to offer their own brand of instant noodles at net cafes. (The American equivalent would be AOL Instant Messenger branded instant pizza.)

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Chinese Food Wiki

March 13, 2006 by Jason Li

A PostShow recommendation: the Chinese Food Wiki (中华美食百科网). Amongst other things, it contains recipes, restaurant listings, links to food blogs and a sweet photo of a chef (presumably at some competition):

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what’s on the BBS today: the inventiveness of farmers

March 5, 2006 by Lyn Jeffery

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Everything under the sun is happening in China.

“Open up your perspective: the best of Chinese farmers’ wisdom” (my loose translation) shows us some of the DIY projects taken on by those deemed “farmers” (农民) in the current Chinese social system. The car drives on land and in water; the submarine is one of a…

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Tag: portals

top websites investigate, rectify their content

aesthetics of abundance, cont.

Virtual World Steps into Real World

Chinese Food Wiki

what’s on the BBS today: the inventiveness of farmers