互聯網在中國只是件玩具
中國互聯網的娛樂功用遠勝其對民生的關注
Entertainment Trumps Politics on Chinese Websites
By DAVID BARBOZA
在中國，互聯網填補了人們的精神空虛
In China, Web Sites Fill a Void Of Diversion
休閒活動太少的年輕人都湧向了互聯網
With few leisure activities, the young flock to the Web.
自上海報導－－通過了解一名叫李雨霏的典型十八歲大學生其上網習慣，我們明白了為何美國互聯網公司在此接二連三出問題，始終無法融入這群世間最大的網民。SHANGHAI — The daily Web habits of a typical 18-year-old college student named Li Yufei show why American Internet companies, one after another, have had trouble penetrating what is now the world’s most wired nation.
他會在網上寫寫部落格，下載些韓劇，也會同時打開兩個網站，一個用來放音樂，一個用作在百度網玩一款叫《榮光醫院》的在線遊戲。He writes a blog, downloads Korean television shows, manages two Web sites devoted to music and plays an online game called Rongguang Hospital, at Baidu.com.
「我大概十一歲左右就開始這樣玩，」來自上海海事大學的新生小李講到，「現在我大多數閒時都泡在網上，因為實在無事可做。」“I started doing a lot of this when I was about 11 years old,” says Mr. Li, a freshman at the Shanghai Maritime University. “Now, I spend most of my leisure time on the Internet,” he says. “There’s nowhere else to go.”
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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/19/technology/19chinaweb.html
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