Featured Artist: henrysum73 赵夏
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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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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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Ephemeral Nature of Chinese Webpage
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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
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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)].
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?
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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
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You Think I Have It Easy?
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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:
tracy commented: These flashes reflected the real thinking of chinese youth, especially
boys,…
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Bloggers’ group photo… of sorts
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A mug shots gallery, to promote the face of Chinese bloggers and blogging:
Note: gender breakdown – many male, few female.
Source: PostShow
LoveTown.cn
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New Chinese dating website: LoveTown.cn.
Notice that they have two white people making out on the front page:
It’s interesting to compare the profile pics here with, say, ones in Friendster.
Source: PostShow
Taiwanese Import: Poop
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