Thu, 09 Oct 2008
/xLife/China:
China sites: In Chinese, but of interest to foreigners....
This is a list of Chinese language web-sites that might be of
interest to non-Chinese who can read a little Chinese. (Please install
Chinese fonts if you are not seeing Chinese characters below.) I
personally use
to speed up the process.
Downloading: Why Buy Pirated DVDs When You Can Download Them?
http://www.verycd.com/
This site supports users of the popular eMule / aMule / Kazaa / eDonkey etc. peer-to-peer download clients that use the donkey and kademalia networks. If you pass your mouse over the menu items on the left, you will see from the English names of the underlying URLs what they are for. "电影" will take you to the movies section, for instance. Most of the site is in Chinese, but English names are displayed for English movies, and very few movies are dubbed, ie. the original sound track is very much the rule. When you find something you want to download, paste the download link into your xMule client and away you go.
House hunting: find a place to live:
http://shenghuo.google.cn/shenghuo/
This site currently defaults to real estate listings in Beijing, and you
get there by clicking on "生活" in
http://www.google.cn/. Then click on
"
城市" to go to other cities, or click on the
Chinese characters for the Beijing District where you want to live.
("租房" is "for rent", "买房" is "for sale.)
Local E-mail Services:
Low bandwidth is a problem in most of Asia, and is made worse in China
by the Great Firewall. Using overseas webmail can be very, very slow, as
are downloads. Both can be speeded up by using a local service, which
may very well have a server right in your large city. These are the ones
I have had the best experience with:
http://mail.163.com/
http://mail.126.com/
Registration is really quite straight-forward, plus, like most Chinese
providers, they provide free POP and SMTP.
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