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What Chinese Government Ban On Lady Gaga? Her Chinese fans are alive and kickin’ it

Posted on by Tricia Wang

The Chinese cultural monitors over the summer enforced something that few other countries have done: ban Lady Gaga. Whereas Lebanon banned Lady Gaga as a threat to Christianity, China has blacklisted Gaga as a threat to “national cultural security.”  But once again, the citizens of China continue to out wit the censors in their covert ways…

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top-down regulation and bottom-up sharing

Posted on by Lyn Jeffery

Evan Osnos of the Chicago Tribune has a nice article on the paradox of today’s Chinese media ecology.  You’ve got heavyhanded regulation on one hand, and rampant p2p damn-the-copyright file sharing on the other.  Some things off limits, most things not.  Osnos notes:

…as blogs grow unchecked, they are creating a generation of Chinese who
never read the state-run People’s Daily…

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Chinese online sports feeds: a meeting place of sorts

Posted on by Lyn Jeffery

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I wonder how many non-Chinese speaking sports fans around the world are watching Chinese TV broadcasts of sporting events (especially soccer) online?  One way to watch soccer on the Internet:

Some smart Chinese people have worked out how to use P2P to stream a
live TV signal – and the most watched shows are the Chinese coverage of…

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