the ESWN model

July 22, 2006 by Lyn Jeffery

In case you haven’t seen it yet, Roland Soong of ESWN has posted the paper he recently presented at the Fourth Chinese Internet Research Conference: China’s Internet and Chinese Culture, July 21-22, 2006, in Singapore. The paper is a crystallization of the thinking and practices behind his blog–one of the most effective Chinese/English sensemaking spaces on the web. As Soong notes, beyond the specific content…

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Baidu bias: nationalism and CCP hatred

July 8, 2006 by Lyn Jeffery

A Web 2.0 blog, TechCrunch, posted about a week ago on the upcoming launch of Baidu Space. The post spurred a series of comments that reveal the craziness of commitments both for and against China’s leading search engine, Baidu. There are those who hate Baidu because it’s a mainland company and is seen as participating in government oppression of certain kinds of speech; there are…

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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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Featured Art Space: Lijiang Studio

May 9, 2006 by Lyn Jeffery

Get a sense of the thriving art scene in Lijiang, Yunnan Province (like Dali, Lijiang is a home-away-from-home for China’s elite artists, from film-makers and painters to sculptors and writers).

Lijiang Studio provides living space, working space, and facilitation
for international, Chinese, and local artists in two locations: one
rural location,…

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online DIY TV from Beijing expats

April 29, 2006 by Lyn Jeffery

Danwei

For those who haven’t seen it yet, Danwei TV now has its own website here. Danwei TV is the brainchild of the authors of the excellent Chinese media blog, Danwei, and features smart, well-produced, fast moving video clips. The clip that’s up now is well worth watching: it’s on Mu Zimei, the famous, sexually outspoken blogger who…

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

April 19, 2006 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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reverse-engineering GuGe

April 18, 2006 by Lyn Jeffery

Okay. According to Pacific Epoch, Eric Schmidt translates Google’s new Chinese name, GuGe 谷歌, as “fruitful and happy song.”

Red Herring says “valley song” or “harvesting song.”

ChinaTechNews translates it as “Happy Song.”

John Kennedy at Global Voices says it should be “valley song.”

China’s official news agency,…

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China’s top keyword searches: hard to find on english language web

March 31, 2006 by Lyn Jeffery

The leading Chinese search engine, Baidu, lists top searches of the day just the way Google Zeitgeist does. Link to today’s top keywords. Arrow indicates growth rate, followed by number of searches, and my translations.

1    mp3    ↑    99199
2    qq    ↑    78692 [QQ is China’s most popular instant messaging platform]
3    电影    ↑    72689 [movies]…

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collectively written online Chinese gangster story

March 18, 2006 by Lyn Jeffery

ESWN posts a magnificent (as usual) translation of a massive Chinese BBS forum post. This one, from popular BBS Tianya, was written in June 2005 and has gotten 1.7 million pageviews and 21,000 comments as of today. ESWN translates a fraction of the action, which is called My Seven Years in World of Gangsters, and is juicy with details like a huge green…

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learn your Chinese Internet vocab

March 2, 2006 by Lyn Jeffery

Check out the stunning set of ppt decks created by Andreas Weigend for a class on Technology, Information, and Innovation
taught at Qinghua (Tsinghua) University in Beijing, 10/05. In addition
to being chock full of data on everything from the Chinese web to the
state of global search to the digital economy, many of the terms…

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the ESWN model

Baidu bias: nationalism and CCP hatred

Young Tibetans on the internet

Featured Art Space: Lijiang Studio

online DIY TV from Beijing expats

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

reverse-engineering GuGe

China’s top keyword searches: hard to find on english language web

collectively written online Chinese gangster story

learn your Chinese Internet vocab