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Donnie, Hao Dong (PhD Cand., JSD, LLM, LLB) is a fellow at Berkman Center. His research interests cover copyright reform, law and social development in digital age, and rule of law in China. He defended his Master’s dissertation on Internet Governance in 2003, then he joined Faculty of Law at Yunnan University located in his hometown Kunming. As a “Western Light” Domestic Visiting Scholar sponsored by Chinese Academy of Science, he visited China University of Political Science and Law (CUPL) in 2004, and co-led a pioneer course of Cyber Law for LLM students. Also at CUPL, he completed his first doctorate study on the Public Domain in the Context of Chinese Copyright Law.

Donnie’s publications, short essays and nags can be accessed at BLawgDog, a personal website just celebrated her 10th birthday: http://www.BLawgDog.com

He is a bad player of GO (Weichi).

Would Google.CN be a “Non-Search Engine” Site?

As you may have known, the domain “Google.cn” had been automatically redirected to “Google.com.hk” since this March. And last week, Google stopped such automatic redirection, and launched a web page at Google.cn. By clicking anywhere of the page, a visitor will be linked to Google’s Hong Kong site.  (please try http://www.google.cn ) Google’s SVP David [...]

"My husband’s life is uncertain now. I will try to ship the garlic tomorrow, Okay?"

Please read the translation of an online conversation between a seller and a buyer at Taobao.com. The buyer ordered a bottle of garlic spread from the seller. Buyer: Hey, have you shipped what I bought at your taobao shop? Seller: There is a flood hereby! Our office has been flooded! The express company is shutdown [...]

English Excerpts of the Chinese Entries published at BLawgDog.com from 25 Jan to 20 March

Here is the collection of the English abstracts for 21 Chinese entries published at BlawgDog from 25 Jan. 2010 to 20 Mar. 2010. For the English readers’ reference. DONG Hao, “Taxation Issues in the E-commerce” A book Chapter in LI Zuming (ed.), E-commerce Law, Beijing: University of International Business and Economics Press (2009), 19,000 Chinese [...]

A little bit more about the “Cinternet” and the “Cyber-pluralism”

In the luncheon talk on 16 March at Berkman Center, I used the term of “Cinternet” and proposed the “Cyber-pluralism”. Nevertheless, the presentation was focused on the cases of some Chinese websites.  This may make audience think that I am arguing for an isolated network. Hence hereby I talk a little bit more about it. [...]

English Abstracts of the Chinese Entries at BlawgDog (Dec. 21th – Jan. 24th)

  Ring the Bell: A 65 minutes Remix Movie created totally in the WOW Game This movie was made by a few Chinese WOW players. The story is well edited and all the episodes are captured from te WOW game. In this remix movie, the story of the dispute between two Chinese governmental departments on [...]

Wanna setup a Personal Website in China? BEING TAKEN A Portrait Please.

  According to a new regulatory document (in Chinese) announced by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, a personal website owner have to BE TAKEN a portrait when she/he is about to “register” the basic information of their websites. The title of the new regulation is: The Scheme of Further Commitment of the Verification [...]