Orchis Tower

After the christmas break, the second half of my six-months inquiries into chinese online media is taking shape. First there will be the social drought of Spring Festival beginning after next week, when all Chinese head home to meet their families. I expect to see only expats during those two weeks, and am prudently planning to use the period for further preparation of my summer term seminars in Germany.

But there has been a lot of social interaction during the last months. Nearly no week passed without meeting new, interesting people, getting new information and new angles on my topic. Everything is still quite exploratory at this stage. No definite results to be celebrated, just an ongoing attempt to keep up with the oh-too-quickly-developing obvious.

In February I will go to Hongkong, to visit that fascinating place for the first time, and hopefully meet some experts for further exchange. And in March I want to go to Wuhan for a third time, to see my friends and colleagues there and maybe lay the groundworks for future collaboration. So the schedule is pretty dense, and I’m afraid time will pass far too quickly.