Highlights from Frank Yu’s presentation entitled, “The Coming Chinese Wave: History, Overview and Trends of Online Games in China.”

There are 3 waves of adoption, all of which still exist:

• 2000-2003: licensing / portals / korean-taiwanese games: subscription to local vendor
  
• 2003-2007: China MMORPGs / communities: free initially, monetization from avatars and virtual goods

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Jennifer 8. Lee talks about the spread of bastardized Chinese food around the world, and the origins of faux-Chinese items like the fortune cookie and General Tso’s chicken.

My favorite bit: Her theory how the non-centralized “spontaneous self-organization” of Chinese restaurants across the US has led to more basically-the-same Chinese restaurants as…

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Above: Chocorange‘s latest piece entitled “Peach Alien Opens Bag (仙桃星人开包).” Love the collage of old Chinese illustrations.

I’ve featured his work probably a dozen times now 🙂

Background

• The clip is entitled “President Attacked by Shoe, Leads to War” (总统被扔鞋引发血战) in reference to the event last year when a journalist attacked US President Bush by throwing a shoe at him.
• It was produced by 胡戈 (Hu Ge), the man behind the original egao film, the “Bloody Case That Started from a Steam Bun” (see ESWN’s coverage of…

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On May 16, BBC reported:

China is building what is billed as its first sex theme park, aimed at improving both the sex education and the sex life of its visitors.

Due to open in Chongqing in October, Love Land will include displays of giant genitalia, naked bodies and an exhibition on the history…

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IEEE has an article about the digital TV standard that China rolled out in time for the Olympics.

Here are some highlights:

Being late in this particular game is not necessarily a bad thing. It allowed China to take advantage of advances in information-coding technologies that make digital television in China—unlike that in the rest…

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From fannster‘s Twitter feed:

The highest 3G mobile users in China are migrant workers. It’s their porno device! Blimey

Source: folks from 1mp.

Caption translate to: “So cheap you would think this is true.”

Agency: Ogilvy Hong Kong
Client: 零售百货业 (PX-Mart)

Original source: Ad Kung-fu.

I recently rediscovered Po Bronson‘s essay about the expatriate myth surrounding Hong Kong entitled Trafficking in Extremes: the Adventure of Working Abroad (circa 2005).

Bronson begins with a grand overview of how Hong Kong is unique (80% housing is government-built non-market, multiple banks print bills) and then continues to look at some bigger issues. For example:

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ESWN translates an article from Southern Metropolis Daily about a real-life version of the popular BBS Xici Hutong. Specifically, the post detailed the failure to create a “Xici Street District in Nanjing to provide Internet users with a place to gather and spend money.”

The photo above is taken from the district’s apology…

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