China’s Great Firewall in action.

Here’s an interesting article I found on IT-networks.org. The article covers how the GFW works, how it’s used to arrest netizens, issues with China’s underground/undersea fiber-optic cables, and why the Chinese network tends to operate so slowly:
“A US businessman negotiating in Beijing with a large state-owned Chinese company was startled to discover that the morning [...]

Punching through The Great Firewall with Global Pass

My Chinese roommate from Princeton in Beijing sent me this YouTube video whose purpose is to instruct Chinese internet users how to break through The Great Firewall while hiding their identities:
I checked the site, 世界通(Global Pass), out. I’m not sophisticated enough to simulate my being in China and using it, so I’d appreciate it [...]

The Nature of China’s Business Press

My journalism course on China’s Mass Media had a guest speaker today—-Arthur Kroeber, the managing director and head of research for Dragonomics and editor-in-chief of the China Economic Quarterly. Mr. Kroeber talked to us about the evolution of the business press in China since the reform and opening began in 1978, how economic reportage has [...]

China’s heavy handed approach to censorship

The Great Firewall censors content at three levels. Nine Internet Access Providers supply Internet to China–and each IAP is connected to a foreign Internet source. Each IAP is connected to thousands of Internet Service Providers, which sell internet to Chinese users. The first level of The Great Firewall’s censorship occurs at the IAP level. [...]

Real-time censorship at work.

I was checking out Roland Soong’s ESWN and came across a link to “Positive Solutions,” a blog by someone working at China Daily. The post of interest is the blogger’s experience with real-time censorship during Sohu.com’s Q&A with Wen Jiabao. I recommend checking the post out.

Chinese officials disclose new ‘banned-topic list’ in time for national and party conferences.

According to Asia Media:
“Mainland media authorities have marked out 20 forbidden areas in an attempt to promote a “harmonious” atmosphere for upcoming national and party conferences.”
What topics, you may ask, made the list?
1) Cultural Revolution (at least any aspect of it that could call Mao or and party’s accomplishments into question.
2) Anti-rightist campaign
3) Judicial corruption
4) [...]