Earlier in this process, I made this note after completing an extensive search session and abstract reading frenzy:
Much of the English-language geography literature seems to be analyzing census data to analyze rural-to-urban trends in China, but I failed to find a single article that (according to the abstracts anyway) that actually talked to any of these people. I wonder if the phenomena are actually far more subtle than these macro-models can measure? One article does mention in-depth interviews, but it’s examining gender roles and identities in migrants. I have yet to find a qualitative article about the motivations and experiences of migrants.
This is still true, although I guess it’s less important for me to find one at this point, now that the topic has become more specific. Still, it’s a general comment that I would still make about English language (the only kind I can read) China geography.
A while back a friend recommended a couple blogs that he reads that mention sinological happenings on occasion. Perusing one of them today, there was a link to a blog that I’ve already been reading. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not claiming to be hipper-than-thou, it’s just seems like I’ve entered a bit of a small neighborhood.
Anyway, the link in common is at least as good as the gold farmer find.
It seems that a culturally insensitive decoration was placed on a Tang Dynasty government office’s wall, leading to the gathering of a virtual mob. 10,000 nationalist protesters stormed the office, demanding redecoration.
Here’s what the virtual mob looked like:
Apparently most of them are shouting obscenities.
Here’s a few news items that have been sitting on the shelf.
The Chinese are getting acclimated to mall culture.
They’re also paranoid about the internet is the same way we were a few years ago. Of course, they don’t say anything about the survey, other than the 96% return rate: which would automatically raise eyebrows here.
This news story seems to echo the internet penetration rate that the CINNIC surveys report: 110 million users. That’s about 9% of the population.
Go post a bunch of stuff that’s been queued up for a month. The quarter is over, the papers are in, and now it’s time to get back to information gathering.
Well, not so much gathering as putting everything I found in the waning moments of the quarter into this here blog. Let’s start with saying that the OSL China exchange program is being revamped and reinvigorated. Oddly, there’s little out there from the previous exchanges. About all I’ve been able to uncover is this narrative.
Please stand by.