On April 7, the online magazine Tea Leaf Nation (one of my favorites) published an article titled Infographic: Jesus More Popular Than Mao on China’s Twitter. The writer set out to determine the prevalence of religious content vs. political content on Weibo and discovered (much to her surprise, it seems) that “the atheist Chinese Communist […]
New Weibo Posting Rules? Been There, Done That
The local blogosphere was abuzz this week with the news that Sina Weibo, China's main micro-blogging site had posted a 'user contract' (a list of rules, really) that their microblog users must adhere to. I read through them (you can read them here in English), and just chuckled because it's essentially a re-hash (but with […]
Behind the Great Firewall
I’ve moved! Not by choice, mind you, but because I now find myself behind the Great Firewall of China. The blog-hosting company that I’d been using (blog-city) has been blocked here in China. Which means that I can’t access it to put up any new posts. After much research and poking around, I’ve decided to […]
