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Survey Says… “Oops” 19 May 2013 | 02:40 pm
Max Fisher at The Washington Post ran a blog post last week featuring a world map of “racial tolerance” based on data from the World Values Survey (WVS), and it didn’t take long before the collective ...
Happy China Internet Maintenance Day! 4 Jun 2009 | 06:22 pm
中国网站维护日快乐! Truly, my new favorite Chinese holiday. The traditional way of celebrating offline involves umbrellas. It’s as if they’ve been watching Simpsons reruns in ZNH. And they’ve probably seen it...
CIRC 2009 27 May 2009 | 06:59 am
I’ll be speaking, listening and blogging the 7th Annual Chinese Internet Research Conference in Philadelphia this Wednesday and Thursday (evenings in Beijing) over at the nested domains of http://2009...
Chinese Al Jazeera? No Chance. 26 Mar 2009 | 05:51 pm
Reading David Bandurski’s ever keen observations over at China Media Project in “As China shout its line on Tibet, is anybody listening?”, I got struck by deja vu all over again. Three times. First, ...
Teacup Feet 19 Mar 2009 | 05:45 pm
by otisarchives3 World War I era photo of Chinese woman’s feet from the Otis Historical Archives at the National Museum of Health & Medicine in Washington, D.C.
China Strange Maps: Cannibals, Frenchmen & Mu 16 Mar 2009 | 04:46 am
Cleaning out the aggregator. Here are several China-related maps from the Strange Maps blog. MAPS OF CHINA Populations of China Compared to Countries China as an Island (from “The Geopolitics of Ch...
Mapping the Herdict on YouTube (Update #3) 5 Mar 2009 | 05:14 am
With conflicting reports about YouTube access in China tonight, here’s the breakdown from reports to the unfortunately named Herdict (Herd + Verdict, get it? neither did I…) censorship reporting tool:...
Little Nemo Dreams of China (1912) 4 Mar 2009 | 11:23 pm
From ComicStripLibrary.org, two Little Nemo strips from consecutive Sundays in December 1912, in which regular characters Flip, Dr. Pill, and The Imp visit China, and Flip attempts to kidnap Emperor P...
It’s All Chinese to the Greeks 10 Feb 2009 | 10:35 pm
Language Log has created a map of what languages are considered by other languages to represent “incomprehensibility”, as in “it’s Greek to me.” Predominantly referring to European languages, Chinese ...
Will the Dalai Lama Twitter in Chinese? Apparently Not. #2 9 Feb 2009 | 07:53 am
UPDATE: Turns out that it was a Twitter impersonator. My optimism was misplaced. The Dalai Lama (or his office, at any rate) has opened a Twitter account @OHHDL. Last March, I argued that according t...
