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China’s Got Talent Too!
China's Got Talent With a population of over 1.3 Billion, China is indeed an obvious market for talent shows. But still, no one expected the astounding popularity of China... ...read more
Sina Microblogging: An Alternative Model to Twitter?
It took more than three years for a Twitter user to garner one million followers. But for China’s Sina microblogging, it only took a little over six months. Considering th... ...read moreWatching Hillary Clinton’s Internet Freedom Speech in China
Eighteen hours after U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton gave her much anticipated speech on Internet freedom in China, I sat among university students, professors and local... ...read moreHow the Chinese Media is Turning into The Onion
At the end of each year, “Journalist Monthly,” a Chinese publication akin to the “Columbia Journalism Review,” lists the top ten fake news stories that ... ...read more
Why the Chinese Government is Launching Its Own Hulu and YouTube
A couple of weeks ago, one of China’s biggest BitTorrent websites Btchina.net was shut down by the government on the grounds that it contained lewd and copyright-infringed... ...read more
China’s New Face: Government News Agency Expanding to Other Nations
This summer, in many European countries’ supermarkets, customers began to notice something different about the TV screens above their heads, which usually broadcast advert... ...read moreA Tale of Two Young Chinese Writers
Recently in China, a spate of popular young fiction writers has appeared on the scene. But two writers stand out among the rest. Not only have they managed to differentiate them... ...read more
To Electroshock or Not? The Chinese Debate How to Cure Internet Addiction
Last April two Chinese youth associations jointly launched guidelines in the hopes of preventing Chinese children from becoming addicted to the Internet. According to the guidel... ...read more“Prison Break’”s Underground Success in China
It was a ritual. Every week, minutes after Fox’s drama “Prison Break” aired in the U.S., Chinese fans of the show began searching for the bit torrent seed of the epi... ...read more
The Underground Success of Prison Break and What It Means for Chinese Media
It was like a ritual. Every week, minutes after Fox’s drama Prison Break aired in the U.S., Chinese fans of the show began searching for the bit torrent seed of the new ep... ...read moreFollow Us
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