Once I began studying Chinese, I fairly quickly became fluent at answering the following questions: Where are you from? Why are you here? Are you married? Why not? I can’t say that I dreaded the questions (OK, maybe I dreaded #3 and #4 a little), but I certainly knew that they were going to be asked […]
Jesus and Mao on China’s Internet
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 […]
