Author: Jason Li

Jason Li is an independent designer, artist and educator. Once upon a time, he studied engineering and ran a news site about fan translations of video games.
Starting Up in Shenzhen

Highlights from the cutting edge of Chinese consumer electronics

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My picks from the Segbuy (赛格网), an online electronics marketplace with zero shipping fees and a seven-day buy-back guarantee. The online “trading platform” is run by the same company who own one of the famously large electronics malls in Shenzhen (the SEG Building 赛格广场).

Click on the images to go to the product page with more information.

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Launching high end men’s wear in HK and Singapore

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The Financial Times has a fun little round up of emerging high end men’s wear companies in Hong Kong and Singapore. Rather than summarizing the article (which mainly states that these firms are meeting a growing demand and trying to put their respective cities on the map), I’ve rounded up a representative sample of images from each company below.

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Rising star classical musician chooses Hong Kong over China, alludes to corruption-fueled practices

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From the WSJ by Nicholas Frisch:

Mr. Sheng’s 2001 MacArthur “genius” grant propelled him into an elite circle of globally famous Chinese composers. His peers include Tan Dun, an Oscar-winner for the “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” soundtrack, also with a premiere at New York’s Metropolitan Opera to his name; Chen Qigang, a student of the late French composer Olivier…

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“Only” 45.8% of China’s netizens have been attacked by a virus in 2010

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I was skimming through the latest “state of the Chinese internet” report from the China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC). It’s a pretty comprehensive study by a government body that interviews 60,000 people from 31 regions/areas.

One section that caught my eye was internet security. The report was boasting that only 45.8% of those polled had been attacked by a virus or Trojan…

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Slang term of the day: tubaozi

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In China, the arrival of the tubaozi, the much-ridiculed “potato buns” from the countryside who got rich without ever living in a sophisticated first-tier city…

Via the Chinese Economic Review, in an article about the evolution of luxury consumers in China.