Civitology Blog

Hi there everyone. We’re the Civitology Blog, and we’re pretty much what’s now Beijingology — just a tad bigger.

If you’ve visited Beijingology, you know what we’re about — City 2.0 sites. Not just wikis, but also topic-specific websites. Like, for example, Beijing A to B, as well as few other topic-specific sites to come.

We’re something like the Wikipedia, but we’re much more focused on one city or Chinese province. You’ll get to hear a lot about the “big things”, like the Forbidden City, but there’ll also be a fair lot of “smaller things”, like the tiny alleyways, a bit about city culture, a bit into the city’s mass transit ecosystem, and quite a bit more.

We’re starting the blog today as we hope to turn it into an interactive system where, as we continue to expand outside the Jing (as it’s also known), we’d also like to keep in touch with the local community. Because we fully recognize that only by doing so can we build a project that’s self-sustaining, beneficial to all, and is a site that folks use, day in, day out.

(At the moment, folks actively involved in Beijingology as our main Civitology project number only a few — @beatlesapple, @DavidFeng, @jackcao001 and @winserzhao make up the team — but we’ll be reaching out a fair bit more and see what’s next for us!)

By the way — we’re calling this project Civitology after amalgamating the Latin word for settlement, civitas, with the omnipresent (in our projects at least) suffix -ology. We hope you like this.

Welcome aboard and thank you!

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