5 Aug, 2009 in Chinese Blogosphere by Fili An
Live from the blogosphere (image from Boingboing)

I’ve been following the China blogosphere for about 4 years now, ever since I became passionate about all things Chinese. As a tribute to the hard working bloggers I wrote an article for "Here’s Dong Guan", a monthly expat magazine for the city of Dong Guan in Guangdong province, and it was published in the [...]

29 Jun, 2009 in Chinese Blogosphere by Fili An
Chinese Censorship and China's Online Netizens Social Movements

Outline Internet has revolutionized the way people communicate and act together as a group, theoretically allowing more power to individuals and groups to access information, share thoughts and promote personal and social agenda. China has also seen tremendous penetration of Internet related technologies and usage. The following article aims to give a quick overview and [...]

28 Mar, 2009 in Chinese Blogosphere by Fili An
CNNIC (China Internet Network Information Center)

CNNIC (China Internet Network Information Center) has been continuously releasing some interesting reports and statistics on the Chinese Internet usage and online market over the years. The latest 2009 reports show some interesting stats on the net-revolution that’s going on in China. Here’s a bit from the "23rd Statistical Report on the Internet Development in [...]

15 Jan, 2009 in Chinese Blogosphere by Fili An
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After doing an analysis of the Taiwanese blogosphere and Taiwan’s top bloggers, and wrapping up Chinalyst’s China Best Blog Awards 2008 I figured I’m on a roll, might as well do it with the China blogosphere as well. DISCLAIMER : this is only for my fun and play, nothing else. This could be completely wrong [...]

6 Jul, 2007 in Chinese Blogosphere by Fili An

Chinalyst is hosting the Best China Blog Awards. The awards are split into a few China blog categories and you can cast one vote for as many blogs as you want. I believe this is an excellent opportunity for some Chinese blogosphere link-love.  Although there are many wonderful China blogs out there that I follow regularly, here’s my personal [...]

22 Jun, 2007 in Chinese Blogosphere by Fili An
China Blog Awards - Best China Blogs 2007 - Banner

Chinalyst, the community website for English language China blogs that I’ve started in 2006, is hosting the China 2007 Blog Awards. It’s quite remarkable that over the past few months Chinalyst has grown to include over a 100 English-language China bloggers writing about diverse China topics – China news, business, law, technology, travel, expat life, [...]

14 Jun, 2007 in Asia, Blogging, Chinese Blogosphere by Fili An
Promoting the Chinese / Taiwanese blogospheres - a personal SEO studycase

During March earlier this year, I discussed using SEO as means to promote the Taiwanese blogosphere in "English Taiwan : The websphere, the blogosphere, traffic, SEO and the need for a profound change". I got mixed responses – few supported, most criticized. I don’t want to raise the whole issue again as it’s almost a religious debate, [...]

29 Mar, 2007 in Chinese Blogosphere by Fili An

The China blogosphere has it all – business, trade, education, travel , expat, technology, law, and humor blogs written by full-time, part-time, problogging,  and hobby bloggers. Seeing myself as being somewhat of a side-member in a few blogospheres (Taiwan/Israel-English/technology) I find the growth of the China blogosphere remarkable. Not a week goes by without discovering a new China blog [...]