The Rise & Decline of Internet Bars in China
chinaSMACK translates a NetEase photo gallery documenting the rise and fall of China’s...
Internet cafes
China’s Internet Cafés in Decline
They have served as crucibles for the country’s online culture and as schools and sanctuaries for its marginalized migrant workers. But according to a new report from the Ministry of Culture, China’s Internet cafés...
Pleasure Hacking on the Chinese Net
At Makeshift, sociologist Tricia Wang examines an often overlooked target of China’s web censorship, and its arguably underappreciated role in building net-savviness and online community spirit. 200 computer screens,...
Censorship Vault: Beijing Internet Instructions Series (19)
In partnership with the China Copyright and Media blog, CDT is adding the “Beijing Internet Instructions” series to the Censorship Vault. These directives were originally published on Canyu.org (Participate) and date from 2005...
Censorship Vault: Beijing Internet Instructions Series (18)
In partnership with the China Copyright and Media blog, CDT is adding the “Beijing Internet Instructions” series to the Censorship Vault. These directives were originally published on Canyu.org (Participate) and date from 2005...
Censorship Vault: Beijing Internet Instructions Series (16)
In partnership with the China Copyright and Media blog, CDT is adding the “Beijing Internet...
Sleeping in Internet Cafes: The Next 300 Million Chinese Users
Techrice has posted a South by Southwest presentation by Tricia Wang on rural migrants’ use of Internet cafés, which extends beyond web and computer access to accommodation and even child-minding. The enormous...
Beijing Businesses Ordered to Buy $3,100 Wifi Surveillance Software
Cafés, restaurants and other providers of public wifi in central Beijing are being required by police to purchase $3,100 network monitoring software. Many business owners are choosing to shut down their networks instead,...
China Tightens Rules On Internet Cafes
From AFP: Cybercafes in China that admit three or more underage patrons will have their licences revoked under the government’s latest effort to tighten controls on web access in the world’s largest online market....
Shandong County Closes Cyber Cafes
A few days ago, China Daily reported that all Internet cafes in Guanxian County, Shandong, had been closed, apparently “in a drive to drag teenagers indulged in the online world back to school and reality”: On July...
Illegal Internet Cafes in Firing Line
The China Daily reports that underground internet cafes are the new target for a planned police crackdown in rural areas: “Illegal Internet bars are harming left-behind rural teenagers that lack parental care because...
New Fears over Cyber-snooping in China
New regulations require Internet cafes in Jiangxi Province to install Chinese-developed operating systems on their computers. From AP: The new rules went into effect on November 5 and are aimed at cracking down on pirated...
Chinese Authorities Enforce Switch from Microsoft
From the Radio Free Asia: Authorities in the southeastern Chinese city of Nanchang are requiring all local Internet cafes to replace their Microsoft Windows XP operating systems with a Chinese-made system, Red Flag Linux,...
China WoW
As previously reported on CDT, the Chinese government has a record of treating the massive popularity of World of Warcraft (WoW) and other online games as a social ill which distracts Chinese youth from their social...
China Watches Over Internet Café Customers In Web Crackdown
From The Times: All visitors to internet cafés in Beijing are to be required to have their photographs taken in a stringent new control on the public use of cyberspace. Hopes that the Olympic Games would usher in a relaxed...
My Kid Is An Internet Addict – Wang Zhiyong
From China.org.cn: Since Internet addiction disorder (IAD) was first introduced by Dr. Goldberg as a new type of addiction in 1995, Internet addiction has been widely covered. Research has been published; diagnostic standards as...
China Starts War with World of Warcraft Addicts – Max Brenn
Following a bar on new internet cafes, a new regulation encourages underage gamers at internet cafes to stop playing and “do suitable physical exercise.” From eFluxMedia: Chinese authorities are targeting a national...
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