From Reuters:
The number of blog sites in China reached 34 million last month, a 30-fold increase from four years ago, state media said on Tuesday, despite a series of curbs on media and dissent.
China has more than 17 million people writing blogs (short for Web logs) and more than 75 million people reading them, Xinhua news agency said.
Authors of personal blogs choose their own subject and can instantly forward their writings to friends anywhere in China or the world. [Full Text]
“Chinese Blogger Conference 2006” will be held from 28th-29th October, 2006 in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China.
Listen to radio program of “In China, Blogs Are Revolutionary Tool of Opinion” from NPR, saying bloggers in China…A few are political. Some are unusual, such as Mumu, a Communist Party member who has clips of herself doing sexy dances. But the typical Chinese blogger is more like Jasmine Gu (“It’s all about me, myself and my life.”)
Read article of “Chinese bloggers run the gauntlet of forced registration, censorship” from USC Annenberg.
