http://www.mutantpalm.org Formerly Musing Under The Tenement Palm Sun, 28 Mar 2010 11:17:26 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 in the dorms of Beida, or the equivalent, but it just doesn't pack that same wallop it does for the overseas ... http://www.mutantpalm.org/2009/06/03/happy-china-internet-maintenance-day.html 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.circ.asia/, which resolves to http://www.global.asc.upenn.edu/circ, where the blog is a wrapper around http://www.lokman.org/. In other words, you'll find me, Lokman, Weiyu, Anne ... http://www.mutantpalm.org/2009/05/26/circ-2009.html 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, there's the endless drumbeat of the official line in Chinese media Bandurski illustrates thusly: In People’s Daily: “Treasuring ... http://www.mutantpalm.org/2009/03/25/chinese-al-jazeera-no-chance.html 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. http://www.mutantpalm.org/2009/03/18/teacup-feet.html 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 China" at Investors Insight) CHINA IN THE WORLD The Cannibal Map of the World (Tibetan literature apparently does talk about eating human body parts) The ... http://www.mutantpalm.org/2009/03/15/china-strange-maps-cannibals-frenchmen-mu.html 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: 156 reports from China in the past 26 1/2 hours (March 5 11:30 PM Beijing Time) 125 report YouTube inaccessible 31 report YouTube ... http://www.mutantpalm.org/2009/03/04/mapping-the-herdict-on-youtube.html 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 Puyi. Special bonus: Krazy Kat draws a Kue. http://www.mutantpalm.org/2009/03/04/little-nemo-dreams-of-china-1912.html 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 is hands down the big winner. I'd point out, though, that Chinese not only refers to it as "Heavenly Script" for ... http://www.mutantpalm.org/2009/02/10/its-all-chinese-to-the-greeks.html 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 to his own stated beliefs the Dalai Lama and his supporters ought to be using technology like ... http://www.mutantpalm.org/2009/02/08/will-the-dalai-lama-twitter-in-chinese.html From the New York Times, February 8, 1912: CHINAMAN A JOURNALIST NOW: Anyway, He Has a Degree from the University of Missouri That Says So. Colombia, Mo., Feb. 7, - Hin Wong, who is said to be the first Chinese to receive a degree in journalism, finished his work at the University ... http://www.mutantpalm.org/2009/02/08/from-the-nyt-archives-chinaman-a-journalist-now.html