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China Online : Netspeak and Wordplay Used by over 700 Million Chinese Internet Users.
Material type:
TextPublisher: Boston : Tuttle Publishing, 2015Copyright date: ©2014Description: 1 online resource (162 pages)Content type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781462915187
- 410.12093458
- PL1273 .M384 2015
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Summary: Dive into China's cool new web-based subculture with China Online! Using Baidu, China's form of Google, young Chinese web-surfers are creating their own language on the Internet. With this book, you can get an insider's view of the way the new wave of Chinese youth communicates in code. Author and translator Véronique Michel guides you on a tour of the lifestyles inhabiting modern-day "tribes" on the Internet: The "Moonlight" or "Starlight" Tribe The "Ant" Tribe The "Corporate Insects" The "Diamond Man"China Online describes a youth culture in transition—using humor and creativity to survive in a hugely competitive environment. They enjoy pun—including the ingenious "talking numbers" used to say more things with fewer keystrokes and characters. There is a great deal that lies under the surface. Learn the secret netspeak used by over half a billion of the coolest people in China, and be in the know!.
Frontcover -- Contents -- Introduction -- PART 1 PORTRAITS -- China's Internet Boom -- Young People in China Today -- The "Café Latte" Tribe -- The "Moonlight" or "Starlight" Tribe -- The "Rush-Rush" Tribe -- The "Mortgage Slaves" -- The "Returnees from Overseas" -- The "Low Carbon Footprint" Tribe -- The "Ants" Tribe -- The "Strawberry" Tribe -- The "Corporate Insects" -- The "Crazy Jargon" Tribe -- The "Luxury" Tribe -- The "Otaku" Tribe -- The "Couch Potato" Tribe -- The "Thumb" Tribe -- The "Flea" Tribe -- The "Pressure Cooker" Tribe -- The Tuhao or the "No Class Nouveaux Riches" -- MEN -- The "Four Gentlemen" and Modern-Day Men -- The "Diamond Bachelor" -- The "Affordable" Man -- The "Three Highs" Man -- The "Three Lows" Man -- The "Herbivore" Man -- The "Phoenix" Man -- The "Diligent Bull" Man -- The "Perfect" Man -- The "Poor" Man -- Women -- The Historic "Four Beauties" and Modern-Day Women -- The "3 No's" Woman -- The "Carnivore" Woman -- The Shengnu -- The "Dried-fish" Woman -- The "Peacock" Woman -- The "No-No" Woman -- The "37°" Woman -- The "Perfect" Woman -- The DAMA -- The "Manly" Woman -- Modern-Day Couples -- Cupid and the "Three Preconditions" -- The Couple from "Only-Child" Families -- The "Half Candy" Couple -- The "DINK" Couple -- The DINKWAD -- The DINKEM -- The DINS -- The New DINKs -- The DINK Exit Tribe -- PART 2 WORD PLAY: HOW IT REVEALS TODAY'S CHINESE MIND -- Chinese Characters and Matters of the Heart -- Drawing Characters Creatively: Word-drawings on the Internet -- Melodious Homophones -- Twisted Meanings -- From Common Expression to Advertising Slogan -- Chinese Names for Foreign Companies -- Magic Numbers, for Texting Addicts and Internet Users -- Online Catchphrases -- English Loanwords: Mixing Languages -- Some Buzzwords in 2013 and 2014 -- Some Interesting Stories and a Taste of Chinese Humor.
Websites & References -- Photo Credits -- Acknowledgments -- Copyright -- Backcover.
