Chinese Food Wiki

March 13, 2006 by Jason Li

A PostShow recommendation: the Chinese Food Wiki (中华美食百科网). Amongst other things, it contains recipes, restaurant listings, links to food blogs and a sweet photo of a chef (presumably at some competition):

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Featured Artist: henrysum73 赵夏

March 11, 2006 by Jason Li

henrysum73 赵夏 is a student at the 北京联合大学 (Beijing Union University) studying advertising.

Source: ChinaVisual (exact post here)

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just dodolook (￣ε(#￣)

March 10, 2006 by Jason Li

The latest internet star in China, Taiwan and even Los Angeles, a 4th year female college student, who calls herself 豆豆看 (dodolook) and has created a brilliant and hilarious set of videos. “Of course,” one blog states, “an important is that she is very attractive.”

Below is a screen capture of her performing comical dance moves to the soundtrack of…

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Ephemeral Nature of Chinese Webpage

March 10, 2006 by Jason Li

A screen capture from Igooi, a Chinese social bookmarking site (in the vein of del.icio.us):

Notice that along with linking to the site, there are also Google Cache and Internet Archive links to the page. I refuse to ascribe everything under the broad umbrella of “censorship” (see recent Massage Milk prank), and so I will…

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KRING top download: marrying a rich person

March 9, 2006 by Jason Li

KRing is a site featuring Flash animations and MP3 clips amongst other things. It’s top download, besting the irony-laced FuRong JieJie MTV (blogged here) is a an MP3 clip entitled 嫁个有钱人 (都市版) [Marrying A Rich Person (City Version)].

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The clip is a short comedic piece detailing a person’s requirements for a rich spouse. In this…

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The Staged Demise of Fringe Blogs?

March 8, 2006 by Jason Li

Yesterday, Danwei reported that three of China’s popular fringe blogs (Massage Milk, Milk Pig & Pro State in Flames) had mysteriously disappeared bearing mysterious messages such as:

Due to unavoidable reasons with which everyone is familiar, this blog is temporarily closed.

Yet today,…

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One Internet

March 8, 2006 by Jason Li

From China Tech News:

In response to foreign media reports that China might
create its own top-level domain names to create its own intranet, a
spokesperson from the China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC)
clarifies that China will not create its own root servers.

The representative says the misunderstanding was caused by…

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You Think I Have It Easy?

March 6, 2006 by Jason Li

PostShow recommended the following Flash MTV (a very popular application of Flash in China), for a song called 你说我容易吗 (You Think I Have It Easy?). It documents the struggles of the working life through the lens of a multitude of jobs: