On China Transcript: People Power
This month’s episode of CNN’s On China with Kristie Lu Stout explores the rise...
Isaac Mao
Behind the ‘Great Firewall’: China’s ‘First Blogger’ Speaks Out
Kristie Lu Stout of CNN interviews Isaac Mao, Chinese Internet entrepreneur and China’s “first blogger” about Internet censorship in China: “I think they are trying to test the tolerance of the people. At...
Chinese Learn to Leap the ‘Great Firewall’
The BBC interviews blogger and Internet entrepreneur Isaac Mao about the ways Chinese citizens are circumventing state censorship online: But the firewall is not unbreakable, at least to some Chinese internet users. “Just...
Isaac Mao (毛向辉): China: Hope in Dialogue
Isaac Mao is one of China’s best-known bloggers and the organizer of the Chinese Bloggers’ Conference, which first took place in Shanghai in 2005. Mao is also a software developer, a social learning researcher, director of...
Teng Biao: Musings on the 2009 Blogger Conference
Teng Biao (滕彪) is a lecturer at the University of Politics and Law in Beijing, and a lawyer. He is also known as a human rights activist and blogger. Teng came to the 2009 Chinese Bloggers Conference in Lianzhou and wrote the...
Isaac Mao: Obama Takes on the China Firewall
Isaac Mao, a Shanghai based social entrepreneur, blogger, software architect and fellow of Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Law School of Harvard University, writes on the Guardian: Obama’s reference to censorship...
China Is Not A Kindergarten
Gady Epstein reports in Forbes, from Beijing: If this was some official’s clever idea to show Chinese Internet users who is really in charge, it certainly hasn’t worked out as planned. The story of the week in...
Isaac Mao “Twinterviews” Hu Yong
Global Voices translates a conversation, via twitter, between two of China’s Internet pioneers, Isaac Mao and Hu Yong: Q10: If the Internet had been around twenty years ago, do you think society would have been a bit more...
Isaac Mao, Hu Yong, Liu Xiaobiao: The Internet, the Media and the Public Sphere in China (Photo added)
In a roundtable discussion at the University of California, Berkeley, on March 18th, participants presented their observations and shared their experiences relating to the rise of the Internet and its interplay with...
Mice Starting To Win In The Beijing Blogosphere
From Sydney Morning Herald: In the game of cat and mouse between the Chinese Government’s censors and China’s increasingly outspoken bloggers, the score has suddenly turned in the bloggers’ favour. Tens of...
4th Annual Blogger Conference in Guangzhou
The fourth annual Chinese Bloggers Conference is now being held in Guangzhou, and is being well-documented in real time. Follow these links to read more: – Live blogging the conference on CNReviews – The official...
China’s First Blogger Isaac Mao: It Was Just Like A Fairy Story
From guardian.co.uk: I had no idea, when I went online to make my first blog post just six years ago, how proud I would come to feel about being a blogger. Initially, I didn’t even tell old friends and family my blog...
Will Olympics Transform China’s Media Landscape?
From the East-West Center of Honolulu: With the Beijing Olympics fast approaching, the world’s attention will soon focus on the rapidly changing but still sensitive news media landscape in China. At a media conference last week...
Bloggers In China Start Testing Limits Of ‘Mental Firewall’ – Geoffrey A. Fowler
From The Wall Street Journal: The respected Chinese blogger Hong Bo, known as Keso, last week posted a question to an online discussion forum in China. “If one day Taiwan goes independent,” he wrote, “what harm will it do to us?” That is a sensitive topic in a country that still treats Taiwan as a […]
The Future of Media in China – Rebecca MacKinnon
The future of media in China – from the grassroots to the professional – has been a big topic at Hong Kong U over the past couple of weeks, Isaac Mao and Michael Anti talked about it. From RConversation: Key points of Isaac’s talk: * There are blockages to free thinking in China, due to […]
Blogger Leads China to Free-Thinking Revolution – physorg.com
From Physorg.com: Isaac Mao, a Shanghai-based software engineer for US chipmaker Intel, shows off his website, CNBlog.org, China’s first online discussion forum about blogging technology, during an interview in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen, 29 March 2007. It was spring 2002 when Isaac Mao, a Shanghai-based software engineer for US chipmaker Intel, first came […]
An Open Letter to Google Founders— to save Google in China and save the Internet in China – Isaac Mao
From Isaac Mao’s Blog: Dear Larry and Sergey, I’m writing you the short letter on behalf of many Internet users in China to have some suggestions to resolve the current dilemma for Google in China, from both business and social perspectives. During the National Day holiday week in 2002, when Google.com was blocked in China […]
Cat and Mouse, on The Web – Benjamin Sutherland
From The Economist: …… The estimated 30,000 government censors behind the world’s most elaborate censorship programme”known as the Great Firewall of China by detractors, and as the Golden Shield by the...
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