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Welcome to the i-PartyPosted by Joel Martinsen on Tuesday, June 8, 2010 at 6:01 PM
The Communication University of China's branch of the Communist Party of China has launched a party newspaper for mobile phones. Intended as a way to "effectively harness the university's professional strengths in the media realm to explore new avenues of party-building work," the new paper was given a trial publication in 2009 before its formal launch at the beginning of this year. In Chinese, the paper's name is fairly straightforward: CUC Institutional Mobile Party Newspaper ( ).In English, the paper is called by the trend-chasing name i-Party. According to the university's news portal, this name carries multiple levels of meaning:
Twelve issues have been published to date. A total of 3,600 MMS messages have been distributed to an audience that includes not just party members at the school, but students, teachers, and media professionals as well. The reports on i-Party do not claim that it is the first party newspaper prepared especially for mobile phones. But I'd be willing to bet that it's the first to put a heart atop an "i" in its nameplate. Links and Sources
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Comments on Welcome to the i-Party
Ridiculous and yet somehow chilling.
To paraphrase Yakov Smirnoff, "in America, you can always find a party. In China, the Party can always find you!"
As far as the CCP goes.. that's pretty darn hip and cool