Happy Chinese New Year!

P.S. I really like this set of characters from 张小盒 (Boxy Zhang), but…

They do resemble these guys from Japan alot…

From the Environmental News Network:

“…the world’s largest cow-dung methane power plant started operation on January 21 in China’s Inner Mongolia region. With an investment of 45 million RMB (roughly $US5.7 million) from the country’s largest milk producer, Mengniu Dairy, the plant is able to supply 10 million kilowatt-hours of electricity to the national power
grid.”

The article…

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Apple has disclosed that their first store in China will be in Beijing, scheduled to open in time for the 2008 Olympics.

It will be located on the to-be-renovated Qianmen Street, which, according to TUAW, will be “the city’s second pedestrian-only shopping street and it’s reported
that Apple will be forgoing it’s well-established storefront in favor
of a…

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From a post on billdsue:
“According to this article, UUpark intends to make Leon the next Hello Kitty, and Sequoia and SIG invested $1.5M into the company in late 2006.”

And so I went to check out some clips (not bad, not great) and then found some comic diaries, like …

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Kaiser Kuo has posted an online version of his recent column for local magazine That’s Beijing. The article is called: Provincial Poetry and delineates the various regional stereotypes within China in poetry.

Excerpts about the two regions most frequently cited:

“The Shanghainese are philistines, and this they’ll gladly own:
Commercial instincts permeate them to the…

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Some of you may have heard that China is going through a very, very cold spell right now and that the army has been mobilized to help out the citizens.

I found some photos today on awflasher that I’d like to share.

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Found a neat site recently,
the Dark Visitor: “Tracking the history, organization, exploits and government affiliation of Chinese hackers.”

Posts include:

• Mysterious Chinese Hacker Slide Show. A sample slide is shown below.
• Chinese Hackers and the 高考 (National College Entrance Exam)“Chinese hackers…

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Unicycle + hockey + Hong Kong. (Also note that the field/rink is nestled betweed roaring buses and major roads.)

Thanks to Rachel Kalmar for the link.

LiLei and Han MeiMei were the two main characters from a series of middle-school English textbooks used by Mainland Chinese students in the early 80s. I’ve unearthed a small wave of nostalgia about them online, including speculations on their love triangle with Englishman Jim Green and an annotated cast of characters.

Then …

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James Fallows has a wonderful little post up on the Atlantic entitled, “Workshop of the world, fine arts division.” Mostly his post has some great photos (like the one below) of his trip to Dafen, a fine art reproduction village outside of Shenzhen.

An artist and his “works.”

For…

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