A group blog about Chinese tech, media and design
In a recent post, 56minus1 offers a great overview of some of the ways people in China have been using video:
“Paike” (拍客) refers to content that can largely be described as “citizen journalism”… The videos themselves are often entirely netizen-shot and edited: one Sina Paike video is a classic case of a…
Continue readingOverview of video in virtual China
Excerpt from an Adobe think tank piece written by Dori Tunstall of University of Illinois (Chicago):
An example of the nature-nurture problem in design could be determining whether physical or cultural differences might account for different responses of Chinese children and Chinese adults to a technology. The methodological approach to this problem requires both ethnographic and ergonomic research. On…
Continue readingDesign + anthropology + China = parent lock PC?
From an O’Reilly Radar interview with Chumby founder Andrew “bunnie” Huang:
The way it works is a lot of these large [U.S.] brands have almost no engineers on the inside… office consists of some product managers and maybe a couple of product engineers. And what they do is they just write kind of a Word document…
Continue readingUS to China, design to manufacturing
Above: “Hidden Elders” a RTHK documentary depicting the plight of the elders in the helter skelter modern Hong Kong. It was animated by Postgal Workshop and won the top prize last year at TBS Japan’s digicon.
Go to the awards page and watch the links labeled 2/3 and 3/3 -or- watch it from…
Continue readingAward-winning animated documentary from Hong Kong
From Tainan…
KLC: A family chain (of one), selling fried chicken and burgers:
From Beijing…
Yonghe Dawang: a nationwide chain first launched in Beijing, serving Chinese-style fast food:
KFC Ripoff Contest results:
Beijing 1, Tainan 0.
Photo credits:
Anonymous medical student…
Continue readingKFC Ripoff Contest: Beijing vs Tainan
From Sam Flemming, over at the China IWOM Blog:
Continue readingAccount of an online group purchase (团购)