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the present

I maintain publicly available China media research resources at farrall.org/china/home.html.

the past

I have been involved with a number of China-related Internet projects over the past ten years, starting with my work at the Radio Television Film department at the University of Texas Austin (93 - 95) where I completed an M.A. in Asian Studies. During that time, I started the China Matrix web site, a resource for scholars studying the China Internet.

Xindeco | ChinaVista

In 1996 I moved to Xiamen, China to assist in what was then "the Internet project" for a business information company, part of the state-owned Xiamen Xindeco Group. During my first six months in Xiamen, I trained a small staff in the arts of web design and publishing, and launched ChinaVista.com. [Although it's no longer very active or well-maintained, much of the previous site was still archived at chinavista.com as of January, 2006. You can't find it by browsing though, because local navigation has been corrupted (by a bad php script). Here are some highlights (Virtual Scenic Tours: Yellow Mountain Forbidden City | The China Experience home Little Ma's Recipe Corner]

After three years in Xiamen, where the Internet project absorbed the rest of the business information company and then figured prominently in Xindeco's public listing on the Shenzhen stock exchange, I left to start my own China Internet consulting company (Matrix East) and content venture (Virtual China) based out of New York. Virtual China, which acquired Matrix East, was a casualty of the spring 2000 Internet stock crash. A Harvard Business Case exists for Virtual China, though it ends in October 1999, just when the excitement began.

the future
Watch my China media research page and my papers and writings for developments.