Word of the Week: Cured Meat
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LatestReclaimed Insult of the Week: Donkey People
The Word of the Week comes from the Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon, a glossary of terms created by...
Little Pinks, “The New Face of Chinese Nationalism”
After Tsai Ing-wen won Taiwan’s presidential election by a landslide in January, thousands...
Internet User of the Week: Keyboard Warrior
The Word of the Week comes from the Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon, a glossary of terms created by...
Word of the Week: Your Country
The Word of the Week comes from the Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon, a glossary of terms created by...
River Crabbed: Hu Jintao’s Tears
Last month, censors took note of a photo from the March, 2013 Chinese People’s Political and...
Lucrative Stardom Using a Webcam and a Voice
David Barboza at the New York Times looks at live karaoke performances on YY.com, a popular...
Shi Shusi: The State of Weibo
On December 5, prominent micro-blogger and Worker’s Daily magazine’s editorial...
Yinchuan Residents Mobilise to Find Hearing Aid
A four-year-old girl with inborn hearing loss recovered her lost hearing aid after thousands of...
China’s Subtle, Unpredictable Censorship
Is censorship all about deleting weibo posts and locking up dissidents? Not necessarily. Monica...
Virtual Roses and the Rise of YY.com
David Goldenberg at The New Yorker looks at a relatively recent social media phenomenon in China...
China’s New Aircraft Draws Netizen Attention
State-run media on Tuesday praised China’s latest military advancement – an airplane capable of inducing nervous breakdowns. From Bloomberg: Detailed photos of the plane — known as the Gaoxin VII —...
China’s Online Population Rises to 591 Million
According to new figures from the China Internet Network Information Center, there are now 591 million Internet users in China. AP reports: China’s population of Internet users has grown to 591 million, driven by a 20...
Netizens Scoff at Boston Bombing Victim Payout
The South China Morning Post reports that the family of the Chinese student killed in the Boston Marathon bombing will receive US$2.2 million as part of the approximately US$64 million in compensation distributed by a fund...
“Dishonest Americans” Series Stirs Contention
A cross-Pacific controversy recently erupted surrounding a recurring column published on the English- and Chinese-language websites of CCP mouthpiece People’s Daily. Originally titled “Dishonest Americans”...
Cybersecurity and the New Cold War
The effects of an Internet attack could rival those of a nuclear bomb, according to a Chinese general at a briefing with the chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff in Beijing on Monday. From Bloomberg News: With the Internet...
Reporter’s Death In Xinjiang Stokes Netizen Scrutiny
The death of a young female journalist on the site of a politically charged infrastructure project in Xinjiang Province earlier this month has drawn the scrutiny of netizens, according to David Bandurski of the China Media...
Netizens Defend Free Weixin Service
China’s three mobile telecom operators want to charge a fee to the more than 300 million users of Weixin, Tencent’s popular mobile chatting application, according to a government official. From Reuters: China’s...
