Trend: China Youth Blogs

Young Beijing bloggers share their thoughts online.

Blogging in China is an increasingly popular pastime. According to the China Internet Network Information Center, as of November last year there were over 72 million China-based blogs and over 47 million Chinese blog writers (roughly one quarter of China’s total number of netizens). With ever greater numbers of Chinese youth heading online to get connected and have fun, many are turning to blogging as a way of sharing their feelings and opinions in a relatively anonymous fashion.

A new blog called Beijing Youth Voices (needs proxy server in China) is being maintained by 6 teenage Beijingers. For the next few months Iris, Siqi, Steven, Linda, E-mail(!), and Kelan will be posting bi-weekly blogs, giving readers a peek into their lives and life in China. The blog is a project between US NGO What Kids Can Do, Inc. and Adobe Youth Voices. As most Chinese blogs are obviously written in Chinese, this will be a great chance for non-Mandarin readers to hear about what life is like in this Olympic city from a Chinese viewpoint, and to learn more about the opinions, ideas, hopes, and dreams of some everyday Chinese youth.

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