Clay Shirky’s latest essay is an edited version of a talk he gave last November at Beth Noveck‘s “The State of Play” [conference on Law, Games, and Virtual Worlds.] Taking the “Code is Law” equation at face value, Shirky wonders what it would take to design an environment where game players owned their game world, […]
Read MoreHow scared should corporate China be of Hu Shuli? asks The Economist. Dubbed the most dangerous woman in China, Hu Shuli is the managing editor of Caijing a business magazine that “combines investigative reporting with the sort of critical commentary that a decade ago would have landed its journalists in jail”. ¤
Read MoreXinhua reports that China’s Ministry of Culture has banned a computer game for “distorting history and damaging China’s sovereignty and territorial integrity”. The PC game, “Hearts of Iron“, was accused of distorting historical facts in describing “Manchuria”, “West Xinjiang”, and “Tibet” as independent sovereign countries in the maps of the game. “All these severely distort […]
Read MoreIn a series of special reports for BBC World Service, Global Business reports on a second industrial revolution and the upheavals which are changing not only China but the whole world. The article pointed out that Chinese companies are hoping to lead the world in combining e-commerce with the world’s biggest mobile phone market – […]
Read More(Due to unexpected technical problem, CDN’s backend was down for ten days. ) Today, Xinhua quoted an official from the Ministry of Information Industry (MII), said “China is expected to become the largest information technology (IT) market in the world in the next five years.” According to this report, China will become the world’s largest […]
Read MoreIDG News Service published a group of articles, to celebrate the tenth anniversary of China being connected to the Internet. These reports range from “A brief history of the Internet in China” to “Chinese Internet users work to make knowledge free.”
Read More“Despite Beijing’s Net censorship, the country appears to be playing host to thousands of the sites spammers want you to visit.” The Business Week reported this story here.
Read More“A seminar on the firth birthday of “Strong China Forum”, dubbed “the first Chinese forum online”, was held in Beijing on May 12. People including responsible persons of departments concerned, scholars and netizens attended the seminar. Since born in 1999, “Strong China Forum” has had over 280, 000 registered clients with 12, 000 posts per […]
Read MoreThe Columbia Political Review, published by students at Columbia University, has posted an essay on the Internet in China called Repression.com. The article concludes on an optimistic note: “While the picture may still be bleak today, there is hope for the future. Chinese people are beginning to push against the government online, and the government […]
Read MoreThe BBC has compiled clips from the Chinese press about the abuse scandal at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. Read it here.
Read MoreShanghai Blogger Philip Sen recently wrote a short article called “State of blogging.” (I mistakenly attributed this article to Joseph Bosco this morning. Thanks to Andrea for pointing out my error.) Topku, one of the blogging pioneers in China is quoted in this article, saying “……the function of blogging as independent media is slowly emerging […]
Read More“The torrid pace of China’s industrial growth has generated serious over-investment in factories and other ventures that are straining the country’s resources. Electricity and water shortages are mounting, transportation bottlenecks are developing, and the first hints of inflation are showing up in official data.” “For Asia, a China slowdown would dent more than just trade […]
Read MoreThe BBC and the AP have reported on the arrest of freelance journalist and Internet essayist Liu Shui, who has been sentenced without trial to two years of “custody and education” in Shenzhen. The original news release from the Committee to Protect Journalists is here. Many of Liu Shui’s writings (in Chinese) are available here. […]
Read MoreThis is tech news, a press release on Yahoo Finance page. “Telecom Communications, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: TCOM -News ) announced today that its China Operation, IC Soft Limited, has entered cooperation with Tencent Company, Limited , which was recently an ongoing IPO in Hong Kong Exchange. Tencent is one of the first Internet Instant […]
Read More“China has about 117 boys for every 100 girls, with nearly 13 million more boys than girls under the age of nine, the official Xinhua news agency said. If that trend continues, by 2020 China could have as many as 40 million men who cannot find a spouse, Xinhua quoted an official of a key […]
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