Linked to on PostShow, and appearing in various BBS’s and websites:

《祸布斯》10大穷光蛋排行榜 (Huobus’ Top Ten Poor Bastards Chart)

Each post is accompanied by ten pictures, some more exaggerated and satirical than the others. It is satirical because, for example, the number one entry is about the Chinese football players and the debt caused by their debauchery. Most…

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The Bus Uncle meme has made it onto a song by a HK group called 軟硬天師 (Soft Hard). The song is called 拍膊頭 (Shoulder Pat), and the CD is called “Long Time No See.”

Yahoo HK’s page for the album.
Buy at YesAsia!

Thanks Josh for the…

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Do you translate articles from Chinese into English regularly? Have you translated half of an article only to suddenly see that blogger XXX just released a translation? Do you want help on your translations?

If you identify with these concerns, then the chinesecontent community is for you. Its members include A-list China bloggers such as Roland Soong of ESWN…

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I’m months late reporting about this, but PostShow posted a link to Microsoft Research Asia (read: Beijing)’s Chinese New Year couplet (i.e. coupled greetings) generator.

Not much new, but I appreciate the incorporation of Chinese calligraphy elements in the user interface.

http://couplet.msra.cn/

Real China’s tagline reads (according to Babelfish translation): “According to of ブログ name, the Chinese truth is introduced.”

Of interest I found:

• A translation of a Sohu IT post about why Prison Break is so popular in China (Answer = the subtitled version of the show running loose on p2p (I don’t know how this…

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Second Life has no Chinese port yet. Welcome to HipiHi, a China-produced and Chinese language version of Second Life.

There’s been some buzz about it over at Second Life Insider, and at various blogs in Virtual China: LaoBai has written a post about it, and a Chinese blogger who reports heavily…

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Happy New Year! 新年快乐！ 恭喜发财！

Moobol/Molive (photo credits: qazzaq321) presents a glimpse at a rural Chinese New Year (or rather, the cooking done the night before):

More to come! Link to original post.

Was going over my photos from fieldwork done at Microsoft Research Asia last summer and found these photos my friend Neema and I took when we were at the Beijing railway station. We had just asked the counter in one of the waiting rooms about our schedule, and here is a photo of his copy of the schedule:

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Rex Wong, a Hong Kong UI guy, points out the problems of setting up a tag cloud in Chinese:

• Sorting: Do they sort by pinyin (preferred by Mainland Chinese) or by strokes (preferred by Hong Kong Chinese even though it’s hard to gauge how many strokes goes into a character)?
• Font sizing: Some Chinese fonts do not scale up well…

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