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Reuters reports that blogging is booming in China. The number of Chinese bloggers is expected to hit 60 million by the end of this year, according to a study on China's media industry by the prestigious Tsinghua University.
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I would definitely like to see blogs firmly take hold in China. However, due to censorship issues, I doubt that they would ever have the impact that blogs have in western/democratic nations.
Posted by: panasianbiz | Sunday, May 07, 2006 at 11:21 PM
Technorati, back in November, put Chinese-language blogs ahead of English-language ones. This situation has not remained. I wonder if this will put Chinese blogs permanently ahead—in which case many of us need to be learning a new language.
¶ Panasianbiz, you are probably right. I am hopeful blogs can be a democratizing force in Red China though it will take longer there for the reasons you outline; and for the unfair punishments given to bloggers who fail to tow the party line.
Posted by: Jack Yan | Monday, May 08, 2006 at 02:11 AM