Before it was easier for us foreigners to make friends with chinese on myspace. Now we can’t seem to add them.

Truth is then, they had Myspace available in China before. Sad, google went and made it worse.

http://rockinchina.wordpress.com/

And A Modern Lei Feng had a few posts on Chinese rock in the US and mentioned one or two:

http://huoleifeng.blogspot.com/index.html

I ought to have some saved on my MySpace page but I never maintain it. Speaking of which, I posted some stuff on how MySpace doesn’t have very good GFW filtering and the .com/.cn barrier is kinda weird… second post down.

If it is seen as a place to open up your network beyond China, and it actually DOES that in practice, it has a distinct niche, and one that really doesn’t exist anywhere else.

But it also depends on whether MySpace users outside China are interested or not–and many will probably not be…

Any suggestions on which Chinese bands to check out?

Sorry to be a killjoy, but alot of Chinese bands have had MySpace sites already. Kiki, whom you link to above, has been on the English MySpace for a while (replace .cn with .com in her profile).

I don’t think friending contests will skyrocket because of this. My guess is having an extra 200 Chinese MySpace friends who don’t speak English will be considered “cheating”.

MySpace better have some killer marketing app handy, or my guess is they’ll just do modestly at best. If not tank.