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Website type | Q & A Political Internet forum |
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| Available in | Chinese |
| Website | pincong h |
| Commercial | No |
| Registration | Optional |
| Launched | November 2018 |
| Current status | Operating |
| Pincong | |||||||||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 品蔥 | ||||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 品葱 | ||||||||||||
| Literal meaning | Tasting of onion | ||||||||||||
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Pincong (Chinese: 品蔥) is a Chinese-language internet forum and Q&A website primarily used to discuss politics and adjacent topics. Its users are mainly overseas Chinese people. The "old Pincong" was founded in 2017, but closed down on 30 October 2018. A new team launched "new Pincong" shortly after.[1]
Background
[edit]Pincong's server is located in United States.[1] The site is currently blocked by the Great Firewall of Mainland China.[2][3]
According to Quartz, Pincong is popular among China’s liberals.[4] Some of its users come from Douban.[2]
Influence
[edit]- November 13, 2019, many users from mainland China uploaded their student photo IDs or diploma, partially covered by a piece of paper to anonymously support Hong Kong protests.[4][5]
- November 30, 2019, a Pincong user published "Geng Shuang Emulator" on GitHub, a webapp that emulates the clichéd speech of then-Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Geng Shuang. It randomly rearranges Geng Shuang's speeches, with keywords replaced to produce a new speech. That attracted some attention of political activists from Hong Kong and Taiwan.[6][7][8] The emulator was removed on December 30.[9]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- 1 2 "不要命了？小說連載驚現《重生之我是習近平》 網一看嚇傻" [Don't want to live anymore? Web fan fiction "Rebirth: I am Xi Jinping" scares netizens]. 三立新聞網. 2019-11-08.
- 1 2 Li, Jane (14 October 2019). "'We feel like cyber-refugees': The decline of the last online sanctuary for China's liberals". Quartz. Retrieved 2019-12-28.
- ↑ "Web browser claiming to be China's first legal VPN just a smaller firewall". South China Morning Post. 2019-11-15. Retrieved 2019-12-28.
- 1 2 Li, Jane (2019-11-21). ""30 years ago, you supported us": Hong Kong campus sieges strike a chord with Chinese students". Quartz. Retrieved 2019-12-27.(subscription required)
- ↑ "高牆擋不住良心！ 中國各大學學生冒險拍照聲援香港". Liberty Times (in Chinese (Taiwan)). 2019-11-14. Retrieved 2019-12-27.
- ↑ "酸爆耿爽千篇一律氣噗噗！網友製「耿爽模擬器」瘋傳台港" [Geng Shuang's angry sour repetitive special! Netizen's "Geng Shuang Emulator" goes viral in Taiwan and HK]. Liberty Times (in Chinese (Taiwan)). 2019-11-30. Retrieved 2019-12-27.
- ↑ 周家豪 (2019-11-30). "耿爽準備不爽中！網友製作「耿爽模擬器」嘲諷NPC回應" [Geng Shuang is going to be unhappy: Netizen makes "Geng Shuang Emulator" to make fun of his NPC-like replies]. 新頭殼. Retrieved 2019-12-01.
- ↑ "耿爽會不爽！中國網友製作「耿爽發言模擬器」 網全笑翻" [Geng Shuang is going to be unhappy: Chinese netizen makes "Geng Shuang Emulator" and the Internet laughs]. CTS News. 2019-11-30. Retrieved 2019-12-01.
- ↑ "「他」不怕失業了！「耿爽模擬器」不到1個月遭下架" [Someone's not going to lose his job: "Geng Shuang Emulator" removed from the net]. Liberty Times. 2019-12-31. Retrieved 2020-01-06.
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