You are probably familiar with ebay – a similar site exists in China called Taobao 淘宝 (http://www.taobao.com/). On Taobao you can pretty much find anything you can imagine at very competitive prices. Buying stuff on Taobao First you do a search for the item you want to buy. In my case a Logitech mouse called [...]
Apart from pirated Hollywood DVD’s available everywhere for a view RMB , you might be tempted to watch foreign language TV channels in China now and then. Satellite TV As TV Satellites are in a geostationary orbit, it is not possible to receive signals from American or European Satellites. Normal Chinese TV will only give [...]
There are quite a few websites that are censored in China. If you want to get full and free (‘free’ as in freedom) internet access in China, there are a several options: Proxy Servers Using a proxy server you can pipe your web-traffic through another computer before establishing the connection with your target server/website. As [...]