Author: Jason Li

Jason Li is an independent designer, artist and educator. Once upon a time, he studied engineering and ran a news site about fan translations of video games.
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Web Novel Makes Splash

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Teenager drops out of high school. He pursues writing. He enters Sina’s online writing competition. He wins. He receives high praise from the judges. He is to be published by Zhaohua Publishing House.

Is this a one off phenomenon, or is the internet providing alternate gateways for expression (for those who don’t follow the traditional path of school)?

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Netease Club Hacked!

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网易社区, Netease’s online social space, located at club.163.com has been hacked! See:

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The question (floating around the Chinese web) is, what did they do to provoke this, and who did they do it to?

Via PostShow.

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The Bun Murders Sequel (馒头 Strikes Back!)

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The original internet spoof of the grandiose Chinese movie, the Promise (blogged previously), called 《一个馒头引发的血案》 (The Murder Caused by a Bun) has inspired multiple sequels in the past few months.

The first is called 《一个馒头引发的麻烦》 (The Troubles Caused by a Bun) and uses film clips from movies with the Hong Kong star Stephen Chow:

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ziboy promo : part 2

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We blogged about ziboy’s photo exhibition, “Here-Photoblogger Ziboy’s Self Expression” here; we did not, however, lay down his ulterior motive:

“The purpose is to demonstrate photography as a medium that overcomes
language. Using the form of photoblogs on the internet to promote
exchange and understanding among people from different countries and
locations.”

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Social Travel

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Major portals often feature a section on travel (旅游), so it is only a matter of time before some Chinese guy combined travel with the Flickr/Douban social software interface.

PostShow directs us to the latest one, tuniu (途牛) – share your photos, stories and advice about your latest journeys!

 

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Super Girls @ QingMing?

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From EastSouthWestNorth:

“It was duly noted that the Civil Administrative Department in China will investigate and penalize anyone who offers to burn paper figures that represent items such as villas, sedans, mistresses, Viagra, condoms, 3P girls and Super Girls for their ancestors during the traditional Qingming festival.”