The last couple of days people have found their way to this blog via google.cn searches for “boycott Beijing”. Strange. I don’t remember writing on the topic. Nor can I remember using the word “boycott” in any post. Anyway, it does suggest that there are Chinese people concerned enough about a possible boycott of the Olympics to search for information on any possible boycott in English.
Of course, a google.cn search means censored results, but then again, a google.com search would turn up results you can’t access without a proxy, anyway, and judging by several of the “but it’s blocked, so we can’t read it” comments in this thread, I think it’s safe to say large numbers of people don’t bother using a proxy to access blocked sites.
And just for the record, I do NOT support any kind of boycott of the Beijing Olympics. Also, I have absolutely no desire to discuss this issue at all on this blog.
Blast and damn it! I do a search for “bezdomny ex patria” and I find this place. That’s not the search hit I wanted. [Er, actually, it is, you idiot. –ed.]
Right, that does it! I’m going to boycott something. I don’t know what, but my voice will be heard!
(The humidity in Zhuhai and my rapidly approaching departure are kind of frying my brain.)
Humiditiy, Zhuhai or impending departure, I don’t know what, but definitely something got to your brain. I prescribe a rapid return to the relative civilisation of Chengdu.
weird how that works, someone found my blog by searching for ‘stories of men stuck in giant clams’. I don’t recall writing about that popular topic, though…
“Stories of men stuck in giant clams”- that’s a great one.