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From the BBC:

Last month, the Chinese authorities banned any new cyber cafes from opening this year in an effort to combat addiction. It has also set up a department, charged with monitoring the content of games.

Games which offer a view of history at odds with the official version in China, such as the Swedish game Heart of Iron which shows Tibet as an independent state, have been banned.

Boot-camps have been set up to provide military-style training in an effort to wean youngsters away from the net.

Though not mentioned in this report, one of the reasons for the clamp down on the amount of time Chinese youth are spending online on games was the shocking, and recent, death of a young man from “game exhaustion.” He spent such a long time in the world of the game that his body in the world of things collapsed. Those familiar with the 18th century Chinese novel Hónglóu mèng, will recall the sick young man, Chai Jui, who died from spending too much time in a magic mirror given to him by a Taoist sorcerer. In the mirror, he was fucking a fantastic creature (Feng-chieh), while in the mirrored/actual world, he was wasting his body and ejaculating on himself for no apparent reason. It was a sticky situation for his relatives.

Finally the mirror dropped, and then there was no movement. When [Chai Jui’s parents] came up to look, he had already ceased to breath. The lower part of his body was icy cold and moist; he had emitted a large mass of semen. He was at once hurriedly dressed and laided out on the bed. Tai-ju and his wife cried themselves into hysterics and pronounced great curses on the Taoist. What magic was this which he had practiced?

The mind and body can only live as one.

Comments (2)

1

This post made me laugh.

Posted by Chris | April 11, 2007 2:18 PM
2

So, where does one get one of these "magic mirrors" you speak of?

Posted by monkey | April 11, 2007 2:47 PM

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