tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-81391377261750598982024-03-05T12:53:22.345-08:00blurray foreverpan blurrayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03333718937476499754noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8139137726175059898.post-12410488929452967862011-11-21T20:33:00.000-08:002011-11-22T02:56:44.231-08:00Found Clothing<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">A lot gets thrown out in China, especially when things like the deconstruction of houses occurs, like in the last post.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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Just the other day the view from my apartment looked like this<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">Today it suddenly looks like this</div><br />
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In Chinese there is a word, <i>chunyun</i>, it is used to describe the high traffic during the Chinese New Year. Everyone heads back to their family home from the holidays. Knowing this, it wasn’t so surprising then that they were sold out of tickets for the sleeper section of the train when we went to buy them not much more than week before travelling to Lugu Lake.<br />
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The area is made up of a number of small villages surrounding a large mountainous lake which crosses the border of Sichuan and Yunnan provinces. It is advertised as “the kingdom of the female,” as the Mosuo ethnic group there continues to live in matriarchal societies. Depending on which section you go you will find either a fairly traditional style of Mosuo life or a lot of hotels and tourist shops. Although the spring and summer months bring in a lot of tourists, the winter is still very quiet. It is in the mountains so it does snow and is quite cold during the morning and night, but generally sunny and warm in the afternoons.<br />
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Luckily we did manage to get soft seats for the ride there. I was worried that I might end up standing next to the toilets, baggage stored in the sinks, and a sleepy looking guy across the narrow hallway from me rocking back and forth with his container of instant spicy beef noodles. That is how one of my train trips in China a year and a half ago went, in case you didn’t guess.<br />
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After the thirteen hour train, five hour bus, and two hour van ride we finally arrived at the hostel we were staying at by the lake. I went with my friend Yaoyao, her childhood friend, jr, high school classmate, high school classmate, and two younger university students who she is friends with. As soon as we went into the communal area of the hostel, the first question asked was, “is there internet here?” When told there was wireless, five of my travelmates rushed for their bags to take out their laptops.<br />
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I think I am probably more embarrassed about my internet addiction than most Chinese kids. There is no shame here in spending all day on computer. Yaoyao, the only other person who didn’t bring a computer, admitted she would have if there was room in her bag. After repeatedly asking her friends to use a computer someone eventually agreed to let her use one. She then said the names of Chinese websites “Douban!” and“QQ!” with great excitement,<br />
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The first hostel had a number of problems with heating. The buildings were generally poorly constructed with holes in a lot of the walls, no form of indoor heating aside from electric blankets, and continuous problems with having hot water, or water at all. Despite this, the owners were nice people. On the second morning the younger worker offered us shots of some kind of Mosuo or Tibetan liquor. It was before nine in the morning and everyone declined except for me and Yaoyao, who left before finishing one shot. I stayed as there was a fire in the room and wanted to keep warm. Unfortunately this meant the worker would continue to refill my glass, even when I told him not to. I suppose telling him that he drinks to slowly didn’t help any of this, he responded saying “a foreigner saying I drink slow!” and then pouring another glass for me.<br />
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On the third day we moved to a different hostel on the Yunnan side of the border. It was considerably nicer and more importantly had hot water. We went to the shop nearby to buy food and it quickly became evident how badly young people in China eat. Cookies, chips, bean congee in a can, powdered milk tea, or instant noodles are considered perfectly acceptable meals here, whether it is breakfast, lunch, or dinner. The other alternative generally was to eat large amounts of carbohydrates from the hostel kitchen; fried rice with a few vegetables or a big bowl of noodles with some tomato and egg in it. Unfortunately, even after the trip ended I still wanted to eat like this.<br />
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We stayed there for around ten days and rode bicycles through the empty mountain roads, got lost walking through the mountain forests, visited tourist ethnic minority villages, rowed boats in the lake, and went to all the designated sights for the best views of landscapes. Additionally, going with Chinese kids, especially ones’ who own expensive cameras, means posing for group photos again and again. I can’t say I put my heart into this part of the trip every time.pan blurrayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03333718937476499754noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8139137726175059898.post-67676793210405391082011-01-11T19:50:00.000-08:002011-01-11T19:50:50.550-08:00Bookshelf<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIHZot-mRmxG-7sApdc4nZi6TiirLvx3xp8Gp94-QZwv50iKhLUzQgJg_17rkIMY-LyffNMDgaEuVhezoLgRzEAOX36m-DdVyWmh-BtR00cpDSiyaIW15S58qqg5gfpcAJaHYTIuxWpjs/s1600/005.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIHZot-mRmxG-7sApdc4nZi6TiirLvx3xp8Gp94-QZwv50iKhLUzQgJg_17rkIMY-LyffNMDgaEuVhezoLgRzEAOX36m-DdVyWmh-BtR00cpDSiyaIW15S58qqg5gfpcAJaHYTIuxWpjs/s1600/005.JPG" /></a></div>Bookshelf in my room.pan blurrayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03333718937476499754noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8139137726175059898.post-90782019410524069262011-01-11T19:44:00.000-08:002011-01-11T19:44:17.739-08:00Portable Speaker<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKPCfjXiX_qJkrdOkXLb8MaFds8tKA3Caeo2RbgJT1v1o4FNlWJ-lZNTKrtr0yK9DWCQ9MjbLXS1TG34WrI60t4F527WqK039rqEMHFdyfYjvabisTsQsGFkb4ZQPUF5GOe96JPMdh1AE/s1600/speaker.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKPCfjXiX_qJkrdOkXLb8MaFds8tKA3Caeo2RbgJT1v1o4FNlWJ-lZNTKrtr0yK9DWCQ9MjbLXS1TG34WrI60t4F527WqK039rqEMHFdyfYjvabisTsQsGFkb4ZQPUF5GOe96JPMdh1AE/s320/speaker.jpg" width="240" /></a></div>Portable rechargeable speaker playing music off of a USB card. Also includes a microphone input if you want to sing some songs on the street corner.pan blurrayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03333718937476499754noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8139137726175059898.post-90325195090324959362011-01-11T19:26:00.000-08:002011-01-11T19:33:17.382-08:00Chinese Alternatives to American Internet Monopolies<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLmKYdeatx7NMGLKiuxo41COWx1L1XOiQFeb2k33A2BtHL0RTRqpRqdrM_J_9qcPGd05pDQ5VQTPKbAyMPLWpKQT9seO7JF2XsjM0Wvny9aKW5NjQVmbuC4Na_3Qop61ImuAB7RbhmDeY/s1600/fanfou.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLmKYdeatx7NMGLKiuxo41COWx1L1XOiQFeb2k33A2BtHL0RTRqpRqdrM_J_9qcPGd05pDQ5VQTPKbAyMPLWpKQT9seO7JF2XsjM0Wvny9aKW5NjQVmbuC4Na_3Qop61ImuAB7RbhmDeY/s1600/fanfou.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri;">A screenshot of microblogging website Fanfou on my computer. </span></i></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri;">Please note the search for “microblogging,” the open tabs on websites Youku and Douban, and, in the lower left, the notice from my VPN service saying it cannot connect.</span></i></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"></div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri;">Last week CBC Radio’s program <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/spark/2010/12/full-interview-tim-wu-on-the-master-switch/"><i>Spark</i></a> featured an interview with Columbia University law professor Tim Wu discussing his new book <a href="http://www.randomhouse.ca/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780307594655"><i>The Master Switch</i></a>. The book examines the rise and fall of information empires in radio, Hollywood and, most recently, the internet. Wu argues that what has happened historically with information empires is that after they pass through an early Golden Age they become more and more monopolized, and if this cycle continues we will see the dominance of fewer and fewer companies on the web. </span></div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri;">The take over of particular spheres of the internet certainly seems to be happening today. We use Facebook for social networking, Twitter for microblogging, Youtube for online videos, and so forth. However, in China different local monopolies have developed. </span></div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri;">Wu’s discussion of the internet in general deals with the issue of growing global monopolies, however elsewhere in <a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2122270/">an article for Slate.com</a> his take on internet use in China only focuses on the over emphasized, and fairly limited, debate on the censorship of information related to democracy and other “sensitive issues.” </span></div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri;">If we look at China’s internet censorship in relation to global monopolies rather than censorship only as censorship, we can come to different conclusions. I do not want to suggest censorship of internet in China is a positive tool in general, rather that the results of it are more complicated than often suggested. </span></div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><br />
<a name='more'></a></div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri;">Internet censorship in China not only censors certain information, but also works against American domination of the internet. The somewhat global internet monopolies I listed above (Facebook, Twitter, Youtube) are all American and all banned in China. Yet a number of local alternatives have been able to make great strides within China. Among others, popular sites include <a href="http://renren.com/">Renren</a> and <a href="http://douban.com/">Douban</a> for social networking, <a href="http://t.sina.com.cn/">Sina Weibo </a>and <a href="http://fanfou.com/">Fanfou</a> for microblogging, and <a href="http://www.youku.com/">Youku</a> and <a href="http://tudou.com/">Tudou</a> for streaming video.</span></div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri;">Even my tech-savvy young Chinese friends, who have VPN programs on their computer that allow access to banned sites, use these local alternatives. Recently, a university student here asked if I had an account on the microblogging site Fanfou. I said “No, I have a Twitter account, but never really use it,” she then replied “Oh, well you’re in China now, use Fanfou.” It is just much more convenient to use the Chinese sites.</span></div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri;">Not only are these websites more convenient as they are not blocked by government censors, they are also designed more specifically for the local market. While traditional multinational companies might change their image or product line to some degree in order to enter a foreign market, websites based on user created content have been successful without having to adapt to specific localities. Contrary to this example, Chinese websites have often taken the concepts, or even copied the designs, of popular online services and adapted them to fit with local tastes. The wide variety of emoticons one can use on Renren in comparison to Facebook or even the busy and somewhat cluttered appearance Youku's main page in comparison to Youtube shows very simple changes geared towards the local market.</span></div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri;">Although the reasoning behind internet censorship in China is just that, censoring information, it has resulted in stronger local brands online. During the processes of economic reforms in the late 70's and 80's under Chairman Deng Xiaoping something similar, but far more deliberate, occurred. Before foreign businesses were allowed to compete in the market, the local economy needed time to develop. Even after foreign factories opened in China, they were not immediately allowed to sell within the country. Today multinational companies are able to enter China, but the local rivals can put up a much tougher fight with foreign firms as local alternatives have had time to develop and become familiar with the population. For the internet based economy, the Chinese government is accidentally producing similar results. </span></div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri;">Looking at popular global monopoly websites Google and Wikipedia, we can already see the outcomes of Chinese internet censorship in strengthening local companies. Wikipedia though previously banned is now accessible. However, it will be disabled if you try to visit pages with “sensitive” information numerous times (such as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_websites_blocked_in_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China">the page for displaying banned websites in China</a>). Google, a site that has had a number of controversies arise due to its business in China, is accessible, but results of certain searches will be removed. While both sites can be viewed within China and are growing in popularity, the global giants have not been able to develop dominance over the Chinese company <a href="http://baidu.com/">Baidu</a> that has both search and <a href="http://baike.baidu.com/">Wiki</a> components on one site. </span></div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri;">Baidu does not contain the information that is hidden or blocked on Wikipedia and Google, but has maintained more popularity due to either users’ familiarity or preference.</span></div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri;">Limiting access to information in China is not something to be encouraged; however, it is naïve to think most Chinese internet users want to spend their time searching for or writing about democracy, Tiananmen Square, and Falun Gong. Like anywhere else, the internet in China is used for somewhat frivolous and often egocentric purposes. What censorship has achieved in China is a number of successful alternatives to internet monopolies. </span></div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri;">At this point in time such success may not seem important to anyone other than the employees of Chinese internet based companies. Yet if it is taken in relation to Tim Wu’s argument in <i>The Master Switch,</i> local internet monopolies may be of growing interest for the future the current internet information empire. </span></div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri;">As American internet monopolies grow both in popularity and power over our access to information, will governments need to intervene? Can alternatives to the growing hegemony of the American internet prosper or even continue without official government measures like those in place in China? And will the current focus on locality in China lead to a more isolated future for its people or for its increased global dominance? These are issues that connect internet in China to global internet use, but are often overshadowed by the debates over freedom of information.</span></div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><br />
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This is part of a series of apartment blocks next to the foreign student dorms at Sichuan University. Everyone has moved out of the apartments except for one elderly man who lives on the third floor. The building continues to be used by prostitutes from outside of the university's west gate and their clients.pan blurrayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03333718937476499754noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8139137726175059898.post-70278307949681217092010-12-27T00:42:00.000-08:002010-12-27T00:42:07.551-08:00mapo tofu<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjp0vL2CO3g1MD908t82ZkU-fyJ8gIGU1xlZzNblBQ0YOzfcuq8C7NUmB-B_rrNyc1VLWrg91gHygbN0C35LskG3ClU9zllSijfkW3bzltl60AJ61IsOH5hjodFFxV4w4CA0RYGIMsYp3w/s1600/mapo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjp0vL2CO3g1MD908t82ZkU-fyJ8gIGU1xlZzNblBQ0YOzfcuq8C7NUmB-B_rrNyc1VLWrg91gHygbN0C35LskG3ClU9zllSijfkW3bzltl60AJ61IsOH5hjodFFxV4w4CA0RYGIMsYp3w/s1600/mapo.jpg" /></a></div>pan blurrayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03333718937476499754noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8139137726175059898.post-78465762610598053332010-12-27T00:30:00.001-08:002010-12-27T00:30:37.498-08:00on campus<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgX8mJfQ3a_kcvAyW3BmiJi0GsM0Pwo3P3FfAXmUjhwnszoUARehENRwmNQ4FneqOIwCXUudw4KgcJoS8bSDzthC_Mc6A7QSO3_oGfiDqAzlvnQTWALrhlSRyllOWHZpTy5Dl7blN6u4-E/s1600/dirt+pile1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgX8mJfQ3a_kcvAyW3BmiJi0GsM0Pwo3P3FfAXmUjhwnszoUARehENRwmNQ4FneqOIwCXUudw4KgcJoS8bSDzthC_Mc6A7QSO3_oGfiDqAzlvnQTWALrhlSRyllOWHZpTy5Dl7blN6u4-E/s1600/dirt+pile1.jpg" /></a></div>pan blurrayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03333718937476499754noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8139137726175059898.post-44358713546310160622010-12-26T23:21:00.000-08:002010-12-26T23:21:39.996-08:00cobra<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiX9l60oAoXzVqQC9Fkyors3fDt_b_Dsztv1PiRaLSob8j-ambsNP2ug51LFTdT5naBdfLjqoTD-9UgAtqhsvFGoc38J-KyB3RpAH-truhW7rwLMxF4vvh7-H83Zs2kAdyz9aVx7F6CJSw/s1600/cobras.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiX9l60oAoXzVqQC9Fkyors3fDt_b_Dsztv1PiRaLSob8j-ambsNP2ug51LFTdT5naBdfLjqoTD-9UgAtqhsvFGoc38J-KyB3RpAH-truhW7rwLMxF4vvh7-H83Zs2kAdyz9aVx7F6CJSw/s1600/cobras.jpg" /></a></div>pan blurrayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03333718937476499754noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8139137726175059898.post-56694960616818409592010-12-26T22:51:00.001-08:002010-12-26T22:51:44.699-08:00forever blurrayblurray holidayspan blurrayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03333718937476499754noreply@blogger.com0