BLOG REVIEW

I chose three blogs which focus on Chinese culture.

- http://www.thebeijinger.com/blog/Chinese-Culture

I like this blog a lot. When I first open this web site, a red background poped into my eyes and what I feel is, this is so Chinese!! It's called the Beijinger's Blog, so it's easy to tell that is a blog about Chinese things. It introduces things about Chinese culture, especially it's a blog that is open to the foreigners and it's in English.

The posts in this blog are all about Chinese traditional festival, Chinese food, and some other things about China, so basically, this blog focus on it's theme very well and it does a great job introducing our culture to the foreigners.

I like how the author put his words into different small paragraphs, it makes the articles easier to read. In some ways, it catches the readers' interests better! Also, the author uses many pictures on the posts, that makes the blog more fun. The blog focus on almost everything about China, for example, it introduces Chinese culture, it has some recipe for Chinese dishes, and it also introduces some of the famous people in China. I feel like myself totally agree with the information on the blog, and I also learn a lot things from the site even though me myself is a Chinese.

- http://www.lostlaowai.com/blog/category/china-stuff/chinese-culture/

This is also a blog about China. The name of the blog is "Lost Laowai", which is a pretty interesting name that the writer uses the informal "Chinglish"(a language that combine Chinese and English). It's easy to tell that the writter of the blog is a Chinese, and wants to introduce our culture to people who wants to know about China. The blog is in English, so it also provides a very good opportunities for the foreigners. 

The blog not only talkes about the Chinese culture, also some other things about China, such as arts and entertainments, travel information, and also some lessons to learn Chinese. It almost covers every field about China. 

LIke other good bloggers do, the writer does put articles into small paragraphs, and this makes the blog easier for readers to read. Also, pictures in one of the most important elements in a blog, the writer uses many pictures and explain things in a conciser way. 

Also, I noticed that the people who comment on the blog are most foreigners, it seems that they do learn a lot things about China from this blog and they do enjoy it. So I think the writer is satisfied about it.

- http://blogs.transparent.com/chinese/

This blog is a little different from those two above, it focus on teaching people to learn Chinese. The background of the blog is white, so it looks very clean and it's easy for people to find some information that they want. 

Videos are the main parts in this blog. The writer is very smart, because a video actually works better than pictures to help people learn Chinese, so that you can know the exact pronunciation of the Chinese words. Also it has many vocabularies with the Chinese "pingyin" on it, when you know about the "pingyin", you will know how to pronounce a Chinese word easily. 

There are many articles which also introduced some Chinese traditional culture, and there are some explanations by the hard words. The writer didn't put all the words together on the same line, instead, he put it in different paragraphs and it's easy for people to read.

Many people shared those posts on twitter and Facebook, which means  there are many people like this blog and it does help them learn Chinese very well. It's a good way to spread Chinese culture through blog since people from different countries and different cultures and learn or know more about China. We do expect a blending with multiple cultures so that we can communicate with each other and share about our own.