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Virtual China

a ticket to Shangri La

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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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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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virtual memorial halls

Posted on by Lyn Jeffery

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The Qingming Festival just passed by a week or two ago–the day when Chinese families all over the world go to pay their respects at the graves of their ancestors.  Graves or memorial halls are swept and freshened with flowers, fruit is presented, paper goods are burned.

Much was written in both the Chinese and English-language media about…

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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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virtually quitting the Party

Posted on by Lyn Jeffery

The Epoch Times, the controversial and strongly anti-Chinese Communist Party (CCP) paper linked with Falun Gong, claims to have registered over 8 million public withdrawals from the CCP, the Communist Youth League, and the Communist Young Pioneers via its “Quitting the CCP” website.  The number is unverifiable and the withdrawals are not considered official in China.

The…

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