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China: Are you in?

Monday, July 7th, 2008 @ 09:58 UTC

by John Kennedy

Countries:: China
Topics:: Ideas, Arts & Culture, Sport, Entertainment, Language
Languages:: Chinese, English
Special:: Olympics

This post is from our coverage of the 2008 Olympics in Beijing China, curated by John Kennedy and sponsored by Reuters. · All posts

You might be in The Lost Ring already and not even know it, unless you've been keeping up with the biggest alternate reality game seen so far. Lyn Jeffery at Virtual China looks at how Chinese netizens figure into the mystery—or not, thanks to internet censorship.

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[...] on a mission to find out more Bob found a post on Global voices which lead to the Virtual China blog, which happens to have an excellent introduction to the Game [...]

# 2008-07-15 at 22:59 pm
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[...] on a mission to find out more Bob found a post on Global voices which lead to the Virtual China blog, which happens to have an excellent introduction to the Game [...]

# 2008-07-22 at 16:02 pm

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