From ESWN:

[ESWN comment:  Why do the Chinese media and Internet users seem to want to see Foxconn dead?  I cannot not help but go back to August 2006 when Foxconn sued a newspaper editor and a newspaper reporter for 10,000,000 yuan each on defamatory reporting.  They did not sue the newspaper — they sued the individual media workers…

Continue readingWhy the Foxconn hubbub? (A story about media ecology)

Just came back from ARTHK10, which is Hong Kong’s new annual art fair that promises to showcase artists and galleries, and connect with collectors around the world.

ArtInfo reports from the scene of yesterday’s VIP showings and continues to put up the open question of whether Hong Kong can become the art fair…

Continue readingHong Kong’s bid to become the pan-Asian art fair city

Young teens on a Saturday night in the central business district of Hong Kong…

Doing that skid/drifting thing with their bikes. (See bottom left of the photo below.) But usually by wetting the floor with some water bottles first.

Oh, and did I mention the modded, souped-up bikes? (Modding…

Continue readingHong Kong teenage bike drifters?

Nanguazi (南瓜子 / 苏楠) shoots photos, illustrates, sings in an indie rock band:

Via Neocha EDGE, see here and here.

See her blog.

Photo from Time magazine online

Observe: Han Han (韩寒). He’s a race car mini champion, author of China’s bestselling book of the last 20 years (a novel about student high school life in Shanghai) and one of the most read bloggers in China. What’s he blog about? Anything from his latest fling with the press to sarcastic social…

Continue readingThe Han Han craze

I tweeted about this several weeks ago, but it seems to be making rounds on the internet today, so in case you missed it:

Modern architect in Hong Kong turns a 330 square foot apartment into a den of luxury by using movable, modular furniture units: Incredible.

See…

Continue readingHong Kong’s Transformers apartment

There’s already a QQ HD app for the iPad, even though the device has not been officially released outside of the US yet.

ESWN basically got it all down, so I’m just going to quote this one:

The Marriage Interviews For A Leftbehind Girl:
(originally at Southern Metropolis Daily)

The population in China is known to have more males than females.  That should theoretically made females more in demand as many males cannot find marriage partners.  Nevertheless,…

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Reporting from the Tudou film festival awards, Frank  Yu tweets about the winner: A 64-minute, World of Warcraft machinima that satirizes internet addiction, internet censorship and the recent governmental-commercial spat over the WoW license renewal.

In other words, it’s a mild form of protest.

To see the video with English…

Continue readingWoW machinima as a form of satirical protest!?