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May 15th, 2006

China: New political campaign shows sarcasm is alive and well

Frank Dai · 16:23 · China

A strange custom of every Communist Party of China leader is for them to come up with their own theory or "ism". Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping had their own respective variations of Socialist theory. Jiang Zemin has his Three Represents. And what about the current Chinese president Hu Jintao? ... 1 comment · read »

May 9th, 2006

Access to MSN Spaces in China

Frank Dai · 11:49 · East Asia

Many people have said that their MSN Space blog is inaccessible or experiences diffculties in connection, including Nina Wu, sister of detained blogger and Global Voices colleague Hao Wu, with many MSN bloggers confirming the problem (1,2). According to this article, the inaccessiblity of MSN Space lies in Live.com. Mircosoft ... 1 comment · read »

May 4th, 2006

East Asia

Today, as the technorati blog pointed out that in its Top 100, Chinese Blogger Xujinglei became NO1 in the chart. It just followed a newly released report from Technorati which claimed that Chinese is the thrid biggest language in the global blogosphere, with explosion of non English blogs. Here is the screenshot.

plus. Technorati is blocked again in Mainland China after few days of unblocking, according to Danwei.org.

April 20th, 2006

What is self-censorship?

Frank Dai · 07:07 · East Asia

Many people think that in China the state media is censoring content online and offline vigorously under government order. However it's not always true since many of the censorship works are not done by the government officials but self-censored. Followed is a translation of recent blog post by Zhao Maoyu ... 1 comment · read »

March 8th, 2006

Three Renowned Chinese Blogs Blocked

Frank Dai · 11:17 · East Asia

UPDATE: At least two of these blogs appear to be back up. See comments section, or this round-up post. ------------------------------------------------------ Three renowned Chinese bloggers are blocked by their BSPs, including one of the most popular bloggers in the country and DW Best of Blog winner, Milk Massage. The three blogs are Milk ... 2 comments · read »

January 28th, 2006

Happy Chinese Lunar New Year

Frank Dai · 09:30 · East Asia

Today is the Chinese Lunar New Year's eve, which are regarded as the most important festival in China and mark the beginning of a year with warm spring coming, so it's also called Spring Festival. We are blogging and aggregating on the what Chinese Blogger are celebrating the evening, with ... 6 comments · read »