If you go to http://www.greatfirewallofchina.org/test/ and put in your ITM web site, you might find that it is blocked. Mine was, must be the subversive banjo stuff.
Jeremy - and all of us - will be very happy to know that www.thesession.org is available in China. Any members there, I wonder? In a country of 1,315,844,000, there have got to be a few.
Don't know if that was an intended double joke, nicholas, but apart from Mao Zedong, "mao" also means "cat" in Chinese. So, you can really say "the cat's mao", because in Chinese it is.
What on Earth were they thinking of, building a great wall of china? It's a wonder it's lasted this long. You'd think they'd have built it out of something less fragile.
I reckon there has to be a few ITM fans in China. Sure didn't riverdance go down a storm over there, and a friend of mine went on an ITM and dancing tour of china. They were sold out every night.
To quote an advertisement here in Oz...the Great Wall of China was built by Nazi Gearring to keep the rabbits out! (it's an ad for the internet and using it to get the 'right' information)
Well I tried accessing it. I used this here web page. It said: Your URL is available. then when I did "click here to view the site in China" ...... inscrutably, nothing happened.
Interestingly, the Chinese government blocked further excavations of Tocharian (an extinct Indo-European civilisation found in western China) sites in 1998, I think, and for years before that denied they were of Indo-European stock.
I tried putting in www.thesession.org into the box in http://www.greatfirewallofchina.org/test/only to receive this inscrutable response,
"The requested URL /poxyUrl was not found on this server."
Here's a great site made by an Andy Irvine fan. I don't know that it's necessarily relevant, but it does have the word "China" in it. http://www.chinatogalway.com/
There is an Irish pub in Shanghai with ITM sessions every Sunday and live Irish music on weekends. I've played there the past two times I have been to China. In the city of Wuhan where I taught, I could not find Irish musicians. So I played ITM with some of the traditional Chinese musicians who used the two-stringed erhu instrument (which is tuned to D). They greatly enjoyed hearing our style of folk music.
I haven't been able to find the same in Taiwan though. There are pubs with Irish names (The Shannon, for example) in Taipei, and even some folks from Ireland working in the technology city of HsinChu, but no ITM scene, unfortunately.
China and ITM
China and ITM
If you go to http://www.greatfirewallofchina.org/test/ and put in your ITM web site, you might find that it is blocked. Mine was, must be the subversive banjo stuff.
Mike Keyes
http://www.mikekeyes.com
# Posted on March 1st 2007 by mikeyes
Re: China and ITM
The Cat's Mao, you probably mean
# Posted on March 1st 2007 by nicholas
Re: China and ITM
Jeremy - and all of us - will be very happy to know that www.thesession.org is available in China. Any members there, I wonder? In a country of 1,315,844,000, there have got to be a few.
# Posted on March 1st 2007 by ragaman
Re: China and ITM
Don't know if that was an intended double joke, nicholas, but apart from Mao Zedong, "mao" also means "cat" in Chinese. So, you can really say "the cat's mao", because in Chinese it is.
# Posted on March 1st 2007 by Dow
Re: China and ITM
Well, I'm jiggered!...
# Posted on March 1st 2007 by nicholas
Re: China and ITM
Interesting... Dao.
What on Earth were they thinking of, building a great wall of china? It's a wonder it's lasted this long. You'd think they'd have built it out of something less fragile.
# Posted on March 1st 2007 by ragaman
Re: China and ITM
I don't know about China, but I've found 3 Japanese bands that play pretty good ITM on myspace. Surely there must be more than that in good old China.
# Posted on March 1st 2007 by MartySmith
Re: China and ITM
I reckon there has to be a few ITM fans in China. Sure didn't riverdance go down a storm over there, and a friend of mine went on an ITM and dancing tour of china. They were sold out every night.
# Posted on March 1st 2007 by session savage
Re: China and ITM
To quote an advertisement here in Oz...the Great Wall of China was built by Nazi Gearring to keep the rabbits out! (it's an ad for the internet and using it to get the 'right' information)
# Posted on March 1st 2007 by TheCurvyFiddle
Re: China and ITM
didn't the Chieftains dress up as Communists for an album cover once?
# Posted on March 1st 2007 by DubChieftain
Re: China and ITM
Well I tried accessing it. I used this here web page. It said: Your URL is available. then when I did "click here to view the site in China" ...... inscrutably, nothing happened.
Interestingly, the Chinese government blocked further excavations of Tocharian (an extinct Indo-European civilisation found in western China) sites in 1998, I think, and for years before that denied they were of Indo-European stock.
# Posted on March 1st 2007 by Key Maniac Lad
Re: China and ITM
I tried putting in www.thesession.org into the box in http://www.greatfirewallofchina.org/test/only to receive this inscrutable response,
"The requested URL /poxyUrl was not found on this server."
# Posted on March 1st 2007 by lazyhound
Re: China and ITM
that's poxy URL's for you.
# Posted on March 1st 2007 by Key Maniac Lad
Re: China and ITM
Here's a great site made by an Andy Irvine fan. I don't know that it's necessarily relevant, but it does have the word "China" in it.
http://www.chinatogalway.com/
# Posted on March 1st 2007 by MartySmith
Re: China and ITM
1 in 5 of the world's population is Chinese.
So, in our ceilidh band of 5, we must have one: most people think it's Wen or Ling but I think it's Colin.
# Posted on March 2nd 2007 by domnull
Re: China and ITM
Sorry about that - I'll fetch my coat !
# Posted on March 2nd 2007 by domnull
Re: China and ITM
There is an Irish pub in Shanghai with ITM sessions every Sunday and live Irish music on weekends. I've played there the past two times I have been to China. In the city of Wuhan where I taught, I could not find Irish musicians. So I played ITM with some of the traditional Chinese musicians who used the two-stringed erhu instrument (which is tuned to D). They greatly enjoyed hearing our style of folk music.
I haven't been able to find the same in Taiwan though. There are pubs with Irish names (The Shannon, for example) in Taipei, and even some folks from Ireland working in the technology city of HsinChu, but no ITM scene, unfortunately.
# Posted on March 5th 2007 by Madharp