Can you recommend websites with interesting articles in Chinese language?

May 26, 2014 at 12:08 PM

I would like to read more and I think that instead of reading randomly anything I find online, it would be helpful for me to read material that is actually interesting for me. Everyone may have different interests/hobbies. For example I'm interested in News articles and especially in Computer Science and Medicine. We could make a big list of websites, divided in categories. I'll contribute to the list too as soon as I find useful websites. I'll start searching now. I recently downloaded Chinese text analyser and I'd like to test it using Chinese articles that I find interesting.

NEWS

New York Times

BBC

Xinhua News

COMPUTER SCIENCE/TECHNOLOGY

SegmentFault (like StackOverflow)

ZCool (like Dribble)

INFORMATION SECURITY (hot stuff)

SCIENCE, MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY

Q&A websites

知乎 (like Quora but focusing more on delivering information rather than on discussion)

豆瓣 (reviews about books, movies, music)

百度知道 (like Yahoo Answers)

May 26, 2014 at 02:27 PM

There's a Chinese version of Engadget, so that might be up your alley.

May 26, 2014 at 02:33 PM

Thanks, this is good. I'm trying to find more websites of this kind.

May 26, 2014 at 03:49 PM

The New York Times has a website in Chinese. I'm sure you could find something in there that would be interesting. Check the 科技 section. Good luck!

May 26, 2014 at 04:09 PM

Also, the BBC has got a website in Chinese: http://www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/simp/

I find it easy to navigate. I don't know how good your Chinese is - mine is still not that formidable, so easy navigation is important for me.

It does not present a particularly Chinese view on things of course.

May 26, 2014 at 04:09 PM

http://www.guokr.com/ (tagline: "科技有意思") has a selection of pop-sciencey articles. I was recommended it a while back. Looks like it has some decent, and not too difficult, articles on there.

I think people tend to imagine that pop science will be more difficult to read than standard news due to the prevalence of specialised vocab - however, I don't think this is really the case, as scientific vocab tends to be fairly easy to guess, at least in written form. For example, as long as you know “化学”, “治疗” and “过程” it's not much of a stretch to guess that “化疗疗程” means a course of chemotherapy; as long as you know “移动” and “植物” you can work out that “移植” means transplant, etc. (And of course, in the context of an article about a new cancer treatment you'd have to be working pretty hard not to make this kind of connection.)

May 26, 2014 at 04:17 PM

Haha, do you reckon the tagline might be a reference to that legendary quote of the "New Scientist" editor?
Legend has it he was asked "What is your philosophy at the New Scientist?" and he replied "Our philosophy at the New Scientist is: Science is interesting. And if you do not agree, you can f*** off."

May 26, 2014 at 04:21 PM

I use every once in a while http://www.chinabyte.com/ but for me it's extremely tough going.

But if you just google you find several websites. If you throw in some chinese too you'll land at the chinese version instead of the english version of the sites.

May 26, 2014 at 05:02 PM

I recommend 煎蛋 as a source of short, interesting articles. I'm not 100% sure what "pop-sciencey" really means, but it may describe what 煎蛋 is all about as well. It feels a bit like Slashdot too, if it rings any bell.

May 26, 2014 at 07:25 PM

@Laurenth, thanks, I'll have to keep my eye on that.

Usually "pop-science" means greatly simplified and usually to the point where it barely resembles the original point, but is still informative about the topic. It's kind of a vague line that separates pop-science from freshman level study sometimes.

May 26, 2014 at 09:36 PM

These resources are really helpful! I was looking for similar websites too, thanks for compiling

May 26, 2014 at 10:28 PM

Techcrunch also has a chinese version.

May 26, 2014 at 11:00 PM

Haha, do you reckon the tagline might be a reference to that legendary quote of the "New Scientist" editor?
Legend has it he was asked "What is your philosophy at the New Scientist?" and he replied "Our philosophy at the New Scientist is: Science is interesting. And if you do not agree, you can f*** off."

Could well be, now you mention it. If that's the case though, I'd think "科学" would be a better direct translation than "科技" (could be an intentional adaptation of the quote, though).

May 27, 2014 at 09:35 AM

I scan-read a few articles off 松鼠会 every day. A wide range of popular science, from health to physics. Quite a few xkcd translations too.

May 27, 2014 at 07:05 PM

Thanks for your contributions. You can keep suggesting websites, also about other categories of interest, I'll select them and make a list in the first post in order to make the resources easy to find.