China Online: Netspeak and Wordplay Used by over 700 Million Chinese Internet Users

China Online takes an insider’s look at the way Chinese are creating their own language on the Internet today to communicate in code and identify themselves with a new hip online subculture that can only be described as cool . This book describes a Chinese youth culture in transition-using humor and creativity to poke fun at authority and tradition. But there is much more that lies under the surface, as you will discover in this book.