Earlier this month, the government opened access to both the English and Chinese sites, though it has since resumed its blackout on the Chinese site.

And "Blue Ribbon 1844," as its Chinese site assures us, has winner written all over it.

Ninety per cent of Chinese sites are company owned, in contrast to just 11 per cent internationally.

If I go to a Chinese site, I can't read the page that comes up.

But success in Dunhuang would help lead the way for other Chinese sites.

October 2000 - Start of the Chinese sites in two dialects.

What changed everything was her decision in April to start her own online blog at a new Chinese site for personal diaries.

Subtext is the blog engine used by MySpace for its Chinese site.

But I found a live link the other day, on a Chinese site devoted to Lord knows what.

Sina.com, like most Chinese sites, screens entries into its chat rooms to make sure that they are appropriate and not "offensive to the government."