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China Modern Culture

Chinese Netizens Protest KFC’s Credibility Crisis

04.14.2010 China Modern Culture
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KFC is probably now facing one of its biggest ePR crises in China now. Failure to deliver a promised, half-price discount on a Family Value Barrel has sent the fast food giant into damage control mode. It seems no matter how hard KFC tries to cozy up to its Chinese consumers by coming up with [...]

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Another Internet Speculation; “Sweet Auntie” Tries to Correct the Vulgarity.

04.12.2010 China Modern Culture
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China “Auntie Susan” is probably the most popular public figure lately in domestic social media. This new figure comes as an unremarkable, modest vegetable seller, who has been noted by her talented voice and enthusiasm. Since Furong jiejie’s blast in 2005, we have seen quite enough internet celebrity, tianxian meimei, xiaopang, Sister Feng, and the [...]

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Blackmailing your family… Confucian style.

03.02.2010 China Modern Culture
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There is a reason that every girl wish to have a big brother – even they could be too protective sometimes, it’s still an enjoyable relation. On the contrary, having a younger brother wouldn’t be such a lovely journey in China. Especially when you think of how old generation/rural residents favor sons much more than [...]

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Forcing Chinese College Students to Think. Period.

02.03.2010 China Modern Culture
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Hey all, yet another post from the prolific Veronica; this one focuses on China’s “college student problem”; the system continues to churn out clones that are above average (when taken in context) but not up to par to the standards set by their global counterparts. Whereas it was a sellers market years previous (exemplified by [...]

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Chinese Netizens Rage at Google’s “Purposefully Anti-China” Search Results.

01.31.2010 China Modern Culture
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Hey All, as you’ve no doubt heard, Google is refusing to comply with China’s censorship policies. This has become a pretty heated political issue; today, Veronica has compiled commentary from Chinese netizens responding to perceived attacks from Google at China. Enjoy -Rand. Google’s pulling out of China set off China netizens’ concern in a fairly large scale. [...]

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“Does Zhang Ziyi Represent Chinese Women?”

01.28.2010 China Modern Culture
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Hey All, the below is from Veronica who is writing about Zhang ZiYi, a famous Chinese movie star and whether she represents Chinese women. It’s an interesting culture article and a good way to get quick insight into the heart of the Chinese woman. Enjoy; -Rand As the proudest international star from China, the spotlight [...]

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Breaking the rules without breaking the rules.

01.13.2010 China Modern Culture
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Perhaps the best recipe for fun is a mix of being smart, being cheap, and being bored. Posted today is a few pictures from Pizza Hut China; wherein customers have turned taking advantage of Pizza Hut’s “one trip to the salad bar” policy into a science. I’m not exaggerating, I’ll actually show you the mathematical formulas used to [...]

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Microblogs & Nuclear Explosions; Censorship is harder than you’d think.

08.27.2009 China Modern Culture
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If you’ve been following our blog, you might read my previous post on one of the China top micro blogging sites, fanfou.com, suddenly became inaccessible at the beginning of July. Fanfou is still inaccessible out of no reason, and the situation seems to become worse and worse. Two more popular Chinese micro blogging sites – [...]

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Top political China SNS “inaccessible”, angers Chinese netizens.

07.13.2009 China Modern Culture
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Lately, more and more websites became “inaccessible” in mainland China, popular ones including Amazon, Twitter, Facebook, etc. Besides those foreign websites, there is one Chinese sns site Fanfou, which is one of China’s Top 4 Twitter Clones Rand introduced here previously, also became “inaccessible”. Regarding the reason, nobody has a confirmed answer, some says it [...]

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Obama’s “sponsorship” of Shanzhai “Blockberry”; Chinese netizens reactions.

07.06.2009 China Modern Culture
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BlockBerry Storm 9500, “Obama’s blackberry, my BlockBerry storm 9500.” Created by HAFF-COMM ( 哈佛通信，“哈佛”also the Chinese translation of Harvard), a copycatting smart phone named “BlockBerry” together with its poster is all over China’s internet; distinguishing it from the rest is U.S. president Obama’s image as “spokesperson”. In the poster of “Storm 9500, pure flat touch [...]

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“Sichuan Earthquake Coke Boy”; Profit motivated generosity sparks controversy.

06.18.2009 China Modern Culture

A recent post at Chinasmack features a young boy who received a free college education from Coke. Named “Earthquake Coke Boy” by netizens, Xue Xiao became famous when after being rescued from the SiChuan earthquake, the first words he muttered through the pain was “Uncle, please give me an ice cold Coke.” Now this is [...]

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