After a few day of stuffing little red envelopes with lucky 'lai see' money and myself with dumplings and taking in the always outstanding HK Harbour fireworks it was a relief to catch something other than Year of the Pig fare and find 'Sage Brennan's THIS WEEK IN CHINA'.
His comment on the overwhelming prevalence of bulletin board systems BBS still dominating China's internet culture has motivated me to look further into the use of BBS's to cut thru the noise created by blogging and gaming to better appreciate where exactly consumer tastes & sensibilties lie.
After surfing a few that I found I'm in agreement with him [ that reading BBS's in China, that ] ..."It's one way to cope with an exploding market ... more »



