Artist Dave McKean illustrates and writes the story about the ambiguous and corrupt deals made in a village in China. The story was originally from an anonymous Chinese reporter.

See original Twitpics here and here. (Via @zumaques.)

Above: 16-minute anti-war animation, visually rich, especially for a one-man team.

Backstory: Man works at ad agency. Man quits, returns home to live with mom, lives off of mom’s 1000 yuan/month retirement benefit, three years and half years later, the above animation was born.

Intended message: The Chinese animation industry is lousy and…

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Just finished reading James Fallows’ Postcards From Tomorrow Square: Reports from China.

Even though he only spent 3 years in China, Fallows has definitely done his homework as a journalist by making sure he saw a wide range of places (from factory floors to post-earthquake villages) and talked to people from top to bottom (CEOs of billion dollar enterprises as…

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Disclaimer: It’s my own comic; I don’t normally self-promote but it’s been a slow post month 🙂

From a Xinhua news photography competition:

“Bronze Prize: An accident caused mother and daughter to lose one leg each, but did not take away their joie de vivre”

Via ESWN.

Eileen Chang was a popular Chinese novelist around the 1950s. She wrote the novel “Lust, Caution” that was recently adapted into a film by Ann Lee (involving some controversial nudity).

In the video interview above, Roland describes her as someone writing free from the shackles of politics, as someone describing “petty bourgeois” life — which…

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There’s been a bit of noise recently about a glaring New York Times article entitled “American Graduates Finding Jobs In China.”

First thing I noticed in the article: the photos of the said American graduates in China.

These photos carry a strong and offensive message: White American man on top!

The…

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My dad sent me the clip above from 周立波’s “I’m Mad About Wealth” show, who is a famous talk show comedian from Shanghai.

It’s in Mandarin with simplified Chinese subtitles. For those of you who don’t understand Chinese, here are some of my observations:

• His body language is very measured (in a way…

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“Palomar5, a young non-profit-initiative founded in Berlin, is looking for creative and eager minds from all over the world to invite them to take part in a 6-week-innovation-camp in October/November 2009.”

• You must be below the age of 30.
• They pay for everything.
• They have specifically stated interest in having someone from China.
• They have agreed…

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A very cheesy (though also priceless) parody of Estelle’s ‘American Boy’, done by Only Won and Larissa Lam, two Chinese American artists in LA.