Wenxuecity

Wenxuecity
Media
Headquarters Fremont, California
Website http://www.wenxuecity.com

Wenxuecity.com[1] (Chinese: 文学城; Pinyin: Wénxuéchéng), literally "Literature City," is a Chinese-language tabloid website targeting Chinese expatriates and people who work and/or study abroad for entertainment purpose. Without its own news reporting staff, it is a site that collects tabloid news, gossips and editorial articles, both concerning China and the world from other sources, without any verification.

Wenxuecity.com has a broad influence as the largest overseas Chinese tabloid website. It has been mentioned by other media such as the New York Times,[2] BBC,[3] VOA,[4][5] China News[6][7] and China Review News.[8]

Censorship

Wenxuecity.com has some level of censorship in its forums. The censorship appears to be based on an unsophisticated keyword filter. For example, politically sensitive words such as FLG (Falun Gong) would be filtered, as well as acronyms that might have slang meanings in Chinese (e.g., a term "SB 180" referring to "Senate Bill 180" will be filtered out because the slang "SB" can mean “a stupid person” in Chinese). External links are filtered out as well. These links include both commercial competitors, e.g., www.mitbbs.com (MIT BBS), and links that are relevant to truthfulness (or falsehood) of stories published. The site has received numerous complaints for shutting down users' accounts for no obvious reasons.

Rankings

According to 2013 data, wenxuecity.com is ranked 2,531 globally and 810 in the U.S. on search engine traffic volume. Every 30 days, the number of average pageviews is over 2 billion, and that of unique visitors is close to 3 million. Within the 3 million unique visitors, over 90% are returning visitors. And about 60% of the total traffic comes from the US, while about 20% are from Canada. On average, they view about 9 pages for each visit and stay on the site for 14 minutes.[9]

References

  1. ↑ On its About Us section, this website calls itself as "Wenxuecity.com", and "A ChinaGate Web Group". "ChinaGate" appears on its logo, but it is not the official English name of this website.
  2. ↑ http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/11/world/asia/11iht-expats.4.15181496.html
  3. ↑ "透视：中国的互联网自由". 29 August 2006 – via bbc.co.uk.
  4. ↑ "火墙内外:"衣"官算"俊"太聪明 反误了"卿卿"功名".
  5. ↑ "火墙内外: 薄熙来案开庭在即 世纪审判引发热议".
  6. ↑ chinanews. "新媒体"给力"华文传媒论坛 ——中新网".
  7. ↑ chinanews. "文学城网站CEO林文：打造海外华人的精神家园——中新网".
  8. ↑ "中評搜索".
  9. ↑ wenxuecity.com/aboutus
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 10/29/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.