Pincong
Chinese Internet forum
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Pincong (Chinese: 品蔥) is a Chinese-language internet forum and Q&A website primarily used to discuss politics and adjacent topics. Its users are mainly overseas Chinese people. The "old Pincong" was founded in 2017, but closed down on 30 October 2018. A new team launched "new Pincong" shortly after.[1]
Websitetype
Q & APolitical Internet forum
AvailableinChinese
Websitepincong.rocks 
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CommercialNo
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Website type | Q & A Political Internet forum |
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| Available in | Chinese |
| Website | pincong h |
| Commercial | No |
| Registration | Optional |
| Launched | November 2018 |
| Current status | Operating |
| Pincong | |||||||||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 品蔥 | ||||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 品葱 | ||||||||||||
| Literal meaning | Tasting of onion | ||||||||||||
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Background
Pincong's server is located in United States.[1] The site is currently blocked by the Great Firewall of Mainland China.[2][3]
According to Quartz, Pincong is popular among China’s liberals.[4] Some of its users come from Douban.[2]
Influence
- November 13, 2019, many users from mainland China uploaded their student photo IDs or diploma, partially covered by a piece of paper to anonymously support Hong Kong protests.[4][5]
- November 30, 2019, a Pincong user published "Geng Shuang Emulator" on GitHub, a webapp that emulates the clichéd speech of then-Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Geng Shuang. It randomly rearranges Geng Shuang's speeches, with keywords replaced to produce a new speech. That attracted some attention of political activists from Hong Kong and Taiwan.[6][7][8] The emulator was removed on December 30.[9]
