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By: Ethan Zuckerman: Listening to global voices | raxraxrax.com

Ethan Zuckerman: Listening to global voices | raxraxrax.com — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 23:31:22 +0000

[...] Read more about Yeeyan here: http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2010/01/06/welcome-back-yeeyan/ [...]

By: botakTree

botakTree — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 07:47:13 +0000

I think Guardian is a great publication and am all for yeeyan’s partnership with it. But Chinese authorities being who they are, are likely to be very sensitive about this. One way around this might be to translate politically less sensitive articles, which is what is happening now.

Another thing that could be done would be to tie up with a personal finance magazine like Moneywise that talks about personal finance issues of Britons. The magazine would more likely be griping about the British government than the Chinese government. Most importantly, this would let Mandarin readers have a window into a lot of the day-to-day concerns of ordinary Brits and actually promote cross-cultural understanding and appreciation.

By: Major Chinese website closed-ReadWriteWeb « FACT – Freedom Against Censorship Thailand

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:52:18 +0000

[...] Zuckerman from the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School concluded that “at least one of the authorities that control the Chinese internet – which include [...]

By: Ingrid Fischer-Schreiber » Blog Archive » Yeeyan ist zur�ck – unter leicht ge�nderten Vorzeichen

Wed, 13 Jan 2010 08:12:36 +0000

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By: RSS For Gadgets » China’s creeping censorship

RSS For Gadgets » China’s creeping censorship — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 20:52:28 +0000

[...] has been down since the beginning of December, but the founders have said that republishing would begin this week, with a closer watch on their material. The demise of a translation community, and the now unclear [...]

By: Welcome Back, Yeeyan –

Welcome Back, Yeeyan – — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 16:36:17 +0000

[...] online translation collaboration community in China, was back online in yesterday morning, after it was shut down in Nov 30, 2009 by China’s online content regulators. But its domain name changes from [...]

By: China’s creeping censorship « Kempton – ideas Revolutionary

China’s creeping censorship « Kempton – ideas Revolutionary — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 15:45:34 +0000

[...] has been down since the beginning of December, but the founders have said that republishing would�begin this week, with a closer watch on their material. The demise of a translation community, and the now unclear [...]

By: China’s creeping censorship | Alice Xin Liu | World BB News

Sat, 09 Jan 2010 13:28:04 +0000

By: Liz

Liz — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 12:04:03 +0000

hmmm. We deliberately keep our content a-political, the idea being that (if one day we are big enough to get on the radar, publish in Chinese etc) we won’t face problems with blocking and censorship in China or other countries with similar policies.

Obviously that restricts how far we can go in terms of coverage (and I guess usefulness), but we thought the trade off was worth it to provide a non-activist (and therefore hopefully more widely available) alternative. This kind of shoots down that hypothesis…

Agree that a reverse Yeeyan would be extremely useful.

By: Elliott Ng

Elliott Ng — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 03:42:45 +0000

Thanks for writing this post Ethan. I share your warm feelings for what Yeeyan is doing. I hope one day there will be a Yeeyan in reverse…a community translation site from Chinese to English. I guess GVO, Roland, Danwei, chinaSMACK, and others are doing this already, but it would great to even do more to help us all gain a much more global perspective. Thanks.