Lu Xun is revered in China as the father of modern Chinese
literature, and was similar to Mark Twain in his ability to skewer the
morals and politics of the day (early 20th century China) through devilishly drawn characters, satire, and
brilliant language.  A few of those characters, Ah Q in particular, have endured through the last 70 years of change and…

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This just in: a new blog produced by the good folks at Ethical Corporation, who have a great website, magazine, and set of reports and conferences already available, focusing on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in China and elsewhere. Much of their online material is subscription only after a two-week trial, though one can sign up for a free weekly newsletter,…

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I simply couldn’t resist and had to return to Molive.cn’s citizen photojournalism site again today.  It’s pure China Daily odd news heaven, produced by who knows what kind of people, the kind who like to report on strange things for the rest of us to read. The kind who are photoblogging, because that’s another name for what this is.  Aggregated photoblogging. Top photoblog on Molive…

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Molive.cn is a Chinese citizen news site that’s photo-heavy and makes wonderful browsing.  According to this Christian Science Monitor article (written already a few weeks ago, so the numbers are surely bigger by now):

Eric Zhang, a former staffer at the China Daily news organization based in Beijing, has launched
www.molive.cn, a
site…

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If you haven’t visited it yet, or recently, you’ve got to see the menu (sorry) at eatingchinese.org, a glorious site that brings together everything to do with chinese food that can be done online, including:

chinese crepes on YouTube–what a great idea to expand upon for all of us living and traveling…

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So says a Chinese professor when discussing the educational experiences of Chinese youth in Internet cafes.  A recent controversy surrounding the strict regulation of Internet cafes, played out over the past 6 months in the small town of Fangshan in Shanxi province, reveals the very real concerns of parents, educators, businesspeople, and bureaucrats about what the Internet is for, who should be able to access…

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PERK 破壳 is the duo of You Zao 由早 and Wowo 窝窝, a Shanghai design studio set up in 2004.

Check out their fantastic illustrations and stickers, among other goodies:

(via 早 blog)

There are lots of sites that aggregate other sites online, whether it be blog aggregators or news aggregators, but this one is worth browsing.  You’ll learn something.  You’ll find something new.

It’s the MCLC Resource Center, "maintained by Kirk A. Denton at the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, The Ohio State University, in…

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Andrew Lih has an excellent post reminding us what’s important about the news that Wikipedia has suddenly, and unevenly, been "unblocked" in China: 

It’s important to know there is no monolithically operating Great Firewall of China, even though it is a cute and useful moniker.

The “GFW system” depends on a distributed system of…

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Jason dubbed him the Chinese Star Wars Kid due to his ubiquity on the PhotoShop spoofing scene in China, but I’m glad to see that the child wasn’t scarred in the way that the original Star Wars Kid was.  Indeed, he’s set up his own website.  Reader Fergus points us to “Little Fatty…

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