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Why am I Blogging?
Why am I blogging?
There are two reasons why I am blogging, the first of these is that I have actually lived in China, and I don't mean Taiwan or Hong Kong, but the real heart and body of China, mainland China, which was something new and exciting in my life. I got to see and experience exciting new things that most people don’t get to hear of and are actually very interesting in knowing. The other reason that I am writing here is because I occasionally feel incredibly exasperated at the ignorance that is allowed to exist in the world, and at the source of this ignorance, our own Governments, be they in Japan, America or Europe, and the “free media” who have a lot to answer for over their blanket censoring of issues.
Spreading information
A politician with an army can hold a nation to ransom, but a businessman with a publishing company can tell the world that it didn’t happen. Information is now the most potent weapon and the most universal key ever invented.
During the troubled time that surrounded the end of the Twentieth century and the birth of the Twenty first century we found out that important information was increasingly being controlled by people who shouldn’t be trusted to hand out complementary noodles at a Tokyo Raman stand, and that this information was being manipulated in such a way that it distorted the distant glow of history and the winds of tomorrow in a dangerous fashion.
With the blanket censorship and manipulation of the press that occurs every time a story is released that a businessman or a politician want buried it became clear to a lot of people that we had entrusted our most important resource to scheming, money hungry, power crazed executives and politicians who have sought to manipulate everything that is printed to their own advantage.
This doesn’t only go on in Japan, Europe and America, but throughout the world, but hot on the heals of censorship and distortion has come a new revolution and an increasing desire for information.
Blogging is increasingly giving a voice to people who have been censored, or who are too insignificant in the grand scale of their countries to otherwise have a voice. It is also allowing people write a raw “from the beach head” look at their lives and at their views on life and politics from any where in the world.
My Blog
My blog is largely aimed at giving another side to news about China and as seen from China, it also give me somewhere to write, because writing is one of the things that I most enjoy doing, as those of you who read my other web pages will already know.
Blogging give me a way to express my opinions, vent my rants and to inform the masses about things that catch my eye on the internet and in China.
I’m not politically backed, I’m not getting paid (for this blog) and you don’t have to read what I am writing if you don’t like it because there are a million other blogs out there saying anything and everything.
i've been reading your blog (albeit backwards) and have been enjoying it
very much
Younreally ought to give us a little more autobiographical info: are you
American, Chinese or what? What do you work at in China. For that matter,
are you male or female?
big milt [mrosenberg@tribune.com]
It must be a bitch to be in a commie country.
Rick
Rick
Actually the people who annoy me the most are the capitalists who pirate everything, It's so bad right now that I have to fight to find a real CD, and I'm not going to pay for a doggy CD churned out by some Taiwanese bloke in Shenzhen. If I'm going to get shafted on CD prices I'd prefer to get shafted by a multinational and not some pirate jockey.
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Since you are angry chinese read angry iranian
Angry Iranian [angryiranian@gmail.com]
Hi ACB, just want to say I enjoy reading your Blog. You know what led me
here? Not that Asian Blog contest thing. I left some comments on Peking
Duck's blog, and someone really doesn't like it insists that I'm not a
Chinese, but I'm ACB in masquerade. I never intended that! I told them I
can never write in English as gracefully as you do. They just don't listen.
In a few days I have been labeled 'Japanese', 'ACB' and 'Taiwan
separatist', so on. Guess they are nicer to you. English proficiency pays
off :) Best in 2005
bellevue [bellavue@gmail.com]
You are a very crazy sad individual, who must belive in conspiricies
theories
sdf
I only wrote it, you went out of your way to read it.
It says a lot more about you than me. After all, what kind of nut goes around reading conspiracy laden websites huh?
Very curious on anyone's opinions on Copyright issues in China.
Particularly print / digital information not particularly the music / video
downloading phenomenon. Searching for ways to attract artistic, poetic,
literary, theatrical, musical composition to China with reasonable
protection from risk of being exploited. Thanks.
Stephen Marvin [exels@comcast.net]
In a word, China has almost no respect for copyright whatsoever.
There are some people who see having the ‘real article’ as a status symbol, or who have more money to spend and want to get the higher quality version, but on the whole, everything is pirate.
People in China have less money to throw around, and there is a general feeling of ‘materials cost money, but ideas are free’, which means that people are willing to pay money for the materials used to make something, but not for the ideas behind them.
If you want my advise, and bear in mind that I am not an expert by any stretch of the imagination, if you want to attract these things to China, and you want to minimize the risk of exploitation, then you are going to have to price low to make your product as attractive as the pirate alternative, and register EVERYTHING that you can possibly register with Chinese copyright or patent authorities because this is the only way that you will get any noteworthy protection under Chinese law.
Make it look like a Chinese endeavor that is attracting foreign talent, rather than a foreign endeavor operating in China. This will cut out some of the view that piracy is steeling from foreigners and not from Chinese, and it will appeal to the group ego.
Other than that, I can’t really help you because my field is social rather than legal here.
ACB
Hey, I really enjoy your site, though I can't quite keep up on all the
info, I'm learning a lot. How do you find time to work on all this? In
Chinese history there has never been a copyright respect thing. Great art
was appreciated, but it was because the artist is so good no one can
imitate him. Now the stuff is so easy to imitate. That doesn't mean I
approve of piracy at all.
Mignon Chang [euphrosynemazemind@gmail.com]
Mignon
Under communism, all ideas belonged to the state and all interlectual property was shared. An invention by one man belonged to everybody.
This, and more, has lead to the overwhelming idea that you can simply pirate anything and everything because of the idea that you can own the material that something is made from , but not the idea itself.
ACB
ACB, Where have you been? I've been looking every day. Anything to do
with the blog blocks? I thought that was only effective on the mainland.
Anyway I've been dying to read another down the rabbit hole. That's the
funniest stuff I may have ever read, and informative as is the rest of your
posts. Thanks.
yuanme
http://www.thechinazone.com/showthread.php?p=1868#post1868
Please ask Beijing to make a monument to 4 June. -Hugo L.
Hi there
Your blog is veru interesting I love it, I have learn so many things from
your blog pls keep update; actually this is the first time I come to see
your blog because I just started to write my own blog so that I wanna see
others' blog to share ideas about China so if you have time please come to
visit my blog at http://china-empire.blogspot.com/
Hello from Detroit, MI -
Its fantastic to see a blog that is telling the truth about China.The poor
people who live in China live like slaves in a land of horror.It is a
nation who uses its people with little regard for personal liberty.Big red
brother is alive and mean as ever.
Very interesting. As a counterpoint to the earlier commenter, I would urge
you to reveal as little about yourself as possible. This keeps the focus
on what you write rather than who you are.