An internet with Chinese characteristics
An internet with Chinese characteristicsOnline business in China is growing even faster than the offline sort. Local tastes and needs, as well as the state, are endowing it with distinctive features WHEN Huang Bing graduated from university in 2005, he promised himself he would make his first 1m yuan (about $155,000) within three years. It took him a bit longer, but no matter: if his business, a c
Digital East Asia » Blog Archive » Chinese Regulations Help Shutter Over 1 Million Websites in 2010
After a couple of years of tightened regulation over the Internet by Chinese officials, including a heavy-handed crackdown on pornographic websites, the results are in. According to the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) there was around 1.3 million fewer websites at the end of 2010 compared to a year earlier. This represents a 41% reduction in active websites. While closing pornographic we
China to propel growth of e-book industry
BEIJING, Oct. 11 (Xinhua) -- China is going to propel the growth of its e-book industry, according to an instruction from the General Administration of Press and Publication (GAPP). The GAPP released the instruction on its website Sunday. China's e-book industry has boomed in recent years but problems have surfaced, the GAPP said. The problems include weak protection of intellectual property right
China Must Create a New Academic Publishing Business Model
China’s top libraries issued a warning to the world’s major (for profit) academic publishers: “develop a reasonable, realistic price policy…” or else! The fallacy behind the 1 September 2010 “Joint Open Letter to International Publishers” [ http://tinyurl.com/2befyob ] is that the group is all librarians, albeit, prominent librarians from prominent institutions. But in the information world of t
Chinese whispers
Chinese whispersNot believing what they read in the papers, China’s leaders commission their own IN A country where independent information-gathering is kept in check, what China's leaders know and how they know it matters hugely. A recently leaked speech by Xia Lin, a senior editor at Xinhua, China's government-run news agency, suggests that even though press controls have been somewhat loosened
Hybrid vigour
WHICH is the world's most important technology trade show? Gadget freaks will insist on CES in Las Vegas. Old hands are likely to pick CeBIT in Hanover, Germany. But the cognoscenti argue that nowadays Computex in Taipei, which celebrates its 30th anniversary next week, rules the roost. Taiwan is now the home of many of the world's largest makers of computers and associated hardware. Its firms pro
Collateral damage
Often means having to say you're sorry “THERE are three ways of being an unfilial son,” argued Mencius, an ancient Confucian philosopher. “The most serious is to have no heir.” The desire for male descendants has had many baleful consequences in China, and in recent years one that used to be hidden has come to light. Millions upon millions of women are trapped in loveless and often miserable marri
Pilgrims and progress
Pilgrims and progressIt is still repression, not development, that keeps Tibet stable Panos ON THE corner of Ramoche Temple Road, a bustling alley where the ethnic violence that engulfed Lhasa nearly two years ago first broke out, finishing touches are being put to a fried-chicken fast-food restaurant. Opposite, a newly opened second-floor café offers coffee, sandwiches and well-cushioned seating.
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