Is yuluncn.com the Crikey of China? Yes, according to this fascinating story in The New York Times:
The collision between the Internet and Chinese authorities is one of the grand wrestling matches of history, visible in part at www.yuluncn.com.
That’s
the Web site of a self-appointed journalist named Li Xinde. He made a
modest fortune selling Chinese medicine around the country, and now
he’s started the Chinese Public Opinion Surveillance Net – one of four
million blogs in China.Mr. Li travels around China with an
I.B.M. laptop and a digital camera, investigating cases of official
wrongdoing. Then he writes about them on his Web site and skips town
before the local authorities can arrest him.
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