chinaSMACK is a daily-updated collection of news and content from the Chinese-language internet. These latest stories, pictures, videos, and topics have become very popular, spreading across China’s major BBS forums, social networking websites, or through email forwards sent between normal Chinese people everyday.
chinaSMACK articles often feature translations from the original Chinese to English by Fauna, chinaSMACK’s staff, or guest contributors. Fauna is native Shanghainese, while chinaSMACK’s contributors come from different countries and backgrounds, both Chinese and foreign.
The majority of chinaSMACK articles also feature translations of select comments made by Chinese netizens in response to the topics, pictures, or videos being discussed. While imperfect, comments selected aim to be representative or interesting to offer chinaSMACK readers an idea of how some Chinese netizens react, feel, or think.
chinaSMACK hopes that translating and sharing the content that is most hot or viral on China’s internet, as well as the comments of Chinese netizens themselves, foreign netizens can better understand a part of China’s modern society and that Chinese people and foreigners are really not so different after all.
Since starting in July 2008, chinaSMACK now attracts over 1.4 million visits and over 3.5 million pageviews each month and features a vibrant community of commenters.
Buzz
chinaSMACK has been featured and referenced by many media publications and personalities, including:
- The Colbert Report (screenshot – clip)
- The Korea Times (koreatimes.co.kr)
- Dashan aka Mark Rowswell (weibo.com)
- Daily Mail (dailymail.co.uk)
- CBS News (cbsnews.com)
- The Straits Times (straitstimes.com)
- The Washington Post (washingtonpost.com)
- The Times Of India (indiatimes.com)
- MSNBC (msnbc.com)
- The Economist (economist.com)
- Global Times (globaltimes.cn)
- AsiaOne (asiaone.com)
- The New Yorker (newyorker.com)
- Agencia EFE (efe.com)
- Gizmodo (gizmodo.com)
- The Independent (independent.co.uk)
- International Herald Tribune (nytimes.com)
- AFP (afp.com)
- BBC News (news.bbc.co.uk)
- New York Times (nytimes.com)
- CNN (cnn.com)
- Liberation (liberation.fr)
- Slate (slate.com)
- Advertising Age (adage.com)
- Harper’s Magazine (harpers.org)
- China Daily (chinadaily.com.cn)
- CNNGo (cnngo.com)
- The Los Angeles Times (latimes.com)
- La Voz de Galicia (lavozdegalicia.es)
- El Universal (eluniversal.com.mx)
- Le Monde (lemonde.fr)
- The Atlantic (jamesfallows.theatlantic.com)
- CNET Asia (asia.cnet.com)
- Youku Buzz (buzz.youku.com)
- The Times (timesonline.co.uk)
- The Telegraph (blogs.telegraph.co.uk)
- People’s Daily (people.com.cn)
- City Weekend (cityweekend.com.cn)
- The Huffington Post (huffingtonpost.com)
- That’s Shanghai (shanghai.urbanatomy.com)
- France 24 (observers.france24.com)
- The Sydney Morning Herald (smh.com.au)
- The Guardian (guardian.co.uk)
- The Australian (news.com.au)
- Time (china.blogs.time.com)
- Danwei.org (danwei.org)
- Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org)
- The Wall Street Journal (blogs.wsj.com/chinajournal)
If you’ve seen chinaSMACK somewhere not listed above, please let us know!
