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Well, so far I’ve put together about 600 articles on China with around 5,000 total pages and about the same for Japan. In the last year I have added another section called "World Topics" with around 4,000 or so pages that has articles on the world's religion, ancient history, the developing world, food, minerals, energy, the sea, geology the rain forest—topics that apply to a lot of different countries. I am currently adding pictures to these articles. In the next few months I hope to start adding more countries, starting with countries in Southeast Asia . On top of this keeping China and Japan up to date requires about 200 or 300 pages a month. Ultimately I hope to cover the entire world. It’s a lot of work. I am now beginning to seek some Wikipedia-style help to make faster progress.
Donations: Among the nice things about the site I think are that it doesn’t have a lot of crap, and it is reasonably easy to navigate. I try to provide good, interesting information and not manipulate you in any way or push a point of view or agenda. But this also means I don’t really make any money from it, certainly not enough to cover even a small percentage of the time I spend working on it. I’m not complaining too much because I like working on this project— all I really do is look for interesting information and put it in the site, and doing that makes me feel productive—but it would be nice to get some money out if it to cover my costs (which aren’t all that much), justify the time I spend working on it and avoid teaching English to pay my bills. I sort of see myself as a punk academic: based on the punk rock idea that anyone can form a band and play songs (or here start a website and write articles) with the amateurish but spirited results sometimes being quite good. I also see what I’m doing now—asking for donations—as Internet busking: an online version of singing in a subway station with an open guitar case. So if you like this site, and would like to support it and keep it free and easy to access, a small donation of $10 or $15 or even a generous larger one to the following Paypal account would be much appreciated.