Originally hailing from the great state of West-By-God-Virginia, Jarrod has resided in Shenyang since February '08. He is the curator of China in 12 Frames. When he's not taking pictures with poorly made cameras, he enjoys heavy metal, girly pop music, pretending to be interested in Major League Baseball, and tweeting about how Shenyang smells.
Part 2 of my two-part rip off of a Forbes article of a similar name. Did I mention there are two parts? This is the second one (of two).
7. The Internet
I'm a freedom-loving American, so the whole idea of the The Great Fire Wall is a great annoyance to me and my values. It also screws with my mind. When I first came to China, Facebook still worked but Wikipedia was blocked. I had never realized how much I ac…
Today I read part 1 of the Forbes China Tracker Blog article Weird Things That People Get Used to in China (a translation of a Chinese article on NetEase). I suppose it is about things that Chinese people get used to, but since I'm leaving soon (countdown: 4 days), I figured I'd write one based on the things I've learned over the past two and a half years. Here is my own part 1, in no particular order.
1. Making…
At this point, everyone knows about Google’s decision to channel Rage Against the Machine’s “Killing in the Name” and more or less say “Fuck you, I won’t do what you tell me” when it comes to complying with China’s internet censorship laws. In its January 12 blog post, Google stated that the company does in fact recognize that leaving search results unfiltered could mean the end of Google.cn and the end of their bus…
I recently read this NYT article on missing student records and became infuriated. In short, the article is about recent graduates from various universities, who came from poor families, worked incredibly hard to set the foundations for their futures, only to find that their entire academic records (high school grades, college grades, test scores, proof of graduation, etc) had vanished. Many of the students and the…
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