Media (Alex Fuller-Wisner)

Peoplepeople.com (China's Facebook)


So, social media in China.  If they were on Facebook, like the rest of the world (except Iran, Pakistan, Vietnam, and Syria), this would be easy.  We'd just log onto our own accounts and whip out our list of a million new friend requests from the land of the Han.  But the Great Firewall is holding back that flood.  Right now, I'm thinking that's a good thing.

Research (Prof. Anderson)


Character Amnesia 提笔忘字





When I and my two research assistants/camermen set out to Beijing and Xi'an to film our documentary, Brush Up!, we knew very little about our topic.  Like the rest of the world, we had been drawn to the issue of character amnesia a year ago (Summer 2010) when a series of articles appeared in major Chinese and English newspapers.