Out of the dorm
http://www.economist.com/world/asia/displaystory.cfm?story_id=6776404
Apr 6th 2006
From The Economist print edition
How to make Confucian communists squirm
HUANG YIXIN and Wei Wei, two students at the Guangzhou College of Fine
Arts, were hanging around their dormitory last summer and decided-as
one does-to turn on their webcam, put on their Houston-Rockets
jerseys and lip-synch a few of their favourite songs by the Backstreet
Boys. They uploaded the clips to Google Video, a free website full of
such stuff. Their grimaces are over the top, self-consciously
ludicrous. And they became famous almost instantly.
Astonishingly famous. Almost every Chinese internet user under a
certain age has seen the "Back Dormitory Boys", as they are now
called. Web forums discuss their private lives. National radio and
television shows have hosted them. Even their roommate, just visible in
the background playing computer games, gets celebrity treatment.
Confucianism
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.atheism/msg/b1375b5d14052549
Is the wakening giant a monster?
http://tinyurl.com/iws6
A Blueprint for the Future
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.atheism/msg/a8545c8e949926bc
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