Hello, World

In preparation of my approaching time as a grad student, I'm setting up this blog as a repository of sorts for the interesting things I find on the web relating to popular culture and mass media within China. Please feel free to chime in in the comments if you have anything to add.

To begin with, I'll offer a link to a paper I wrote on the connection between PK ("Player Kill") and the Chinese American Idol-clone Super Girls. It's currently being hosted by Matteo Bittanti on his fine site Videoludica.
http://www.videoludica.com/news.php?news=472&lang=en

There's also a link to it on GameSetWatch that refers to my paper as "excellent" but "odd." http://www.gamesetwatch.com/2006/12/gamesetlinkdump_december_6th_2.php.