Articles on Chinese Netizens

Chinese Netizens struggling to access free VPNs - Nov 8, 2009

Blogs A lot of Chinese Netizens, missing the Web sites that have been blocked during 2009--and remain blocked right now--such as YouTube, Facebook and Blogspot blogs, have been scrambling to find free ... Read story »

Footage of China's Hu with Toshiba ad is banned - Nov 4, 2009

Blogs Many of you will remember the controversy caused back in October after Chinese Netizens complained that their National Day Parade was tainted by an ad for a Japanese company. Hu Jintao's ... Read story »

.中国 is coming, and China is pleased - Nov 1, 2009

Blogs The Internet, for its 40th birthday this week, got quite a shakeup: For the first time ever, Internet domain extensions can comprise non-Latin characters. After the domination of .com, .net, .co.jp, ... Read story »

Obama: "I have never used Twitter" - Nov 16, 2009

Blogs One of the interesting things to come out of his just concluded townhall meeting in Shanghai was US President Barack Obama's admission: "I have never used Twitter". Obama casually divulged this ... Read story »

Google China chief quits, reasons unknown - Sep 6, 2009

Blogs Google Inc's China chief, Kai-Fu Lee, has resigned with--two days after his departure--no clear reason. The 49-year-old Taiwan-born, US-educated executive had been with Google ever since its official launch in China ... Read story »

Eight Web sites that'll help you understand China - Sep 6, 2009

Blogs Contemporary China can be difficult to understand or get a big picture on. News reportage by most TV media and newspapers doesn't quite get it right, in terms of hearing ordinary ... Read story »

Owning a Taobao.com shop: A new national hobby - Sep 14, 2009

Blogs eBay brands itself as "The World's Online Marketplace", but one big chunk of the world map that it has embarrassingly failed to conquer is China. Taobao.com, the Chinese consumer e-commerce site, ... Read story »

Green Dam Youth Escort: A summary of the Holey Harlot - Jun 19, 2009

Blogs Not since the release of Windows Vista has such a poorly designed, expensively developed, non-mandatory but strongly encouraged, scenically sounding piece of software created such a buzz as has Green Dam ... Read story »

Green Dam bursts under Netizen pressure - Jul 2, 2009

Blogs I had meant to post this yesterday when I learned of it, but having my nation's birthday to celebrate proved too much of a distraction--apologies. So, if you've not yet heard, ... Read story »

Comparing China, US Internet usage - May 25, 2009

Blogs A couple of days ago Silicon Alley Insider posted a chart displaying the differences and similarities between Chinese and US Web usership. The chart mines and melds data from the Pew Research ... Read story »

Japanese Bikini Star Nonami Takizawa does rural China - Oct 30, 2007

Blogs I'm taking a firm stand here. And no, I don't mean that kind of firm stand... This was not a good idea. From Global Voices comes the report that Japanese A/V ... Read story »

Chinese Facebook: I know where you live! - Jun 7, 2007

Blogs I came across an interesting article from the CBC yesterday, about what it dubbed The Facebook Generation, and how there might be some privacy issues to go along with this newfangled ... Read story »

Tibet tweets - Mar 19, 2008

Blogs The YouTube block in China has been effective in blocking out video of the Tibet riots. That said, I've been watching the action on Twitter and it's Chinese equivalent Fanfou which ... Read story »

Flickr blocked: Great Firewall, your mother's in for a long night... - Jun 11, 2007

Blogs Flickr.com is the latest victim of China's Net Nanny, otherwise known as the Great Firewall (or GFW for short). While the Flickr site is not actually blocked, access to the image ... Read story »

China's greatest Internet potential - May 23, 2008

Blogs Or at least, as I see it. I wrote before about Chinese crowd sourcing and how huge amounts of Nintendo game text could be translated in a matter of days by ... Read story »

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