Thanks to China Digital Times for the link to this rather extraordinary video, posted by someone called daughterofchina, whose producers are using the Internet and Youtube as a means of online environmental activism. It would be nice to know more about who produced it. I searched Yoqoo (which I notice is now calling itself Youku, thank god), Baidu, and Tudou…

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Our first subtitled Chinese video! It’s the story of Wang Qiang, a Sichuan barber who grew up making model planes and eventually built his own and became a self-taught pilot. This is one of the things I love about China–an ordinary guy can build his own plane and fly it, without a whole lot of interference from anyone.  Especially in rural areas.  The government appears…

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Check out Shanshui Records website, where you can find MP3s, news about shows, photos, and buy CDs in RMB, USD, CAD and AUD.  Elyse Ribbons at City Weekend calls Shanshui “the mainland’s sole refuge for geeky, mathbop electronica artists since its inception four years ago.”

One more short post on Chinese beatboxing. I think this is one of the guys who drives the bbox.cn.com site, seeing as how he spits the URL at the end of this video.  Reading the comments on Youtube is interesting as well–seeing how a young Korean Chinese in Changchun can actually reach people all over the world, via a webcam in…

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The Shanghaiist posted on this a few months ago already, but I just came across these Chinese beatboxing videos and had to explore further.   

Shanghaiist describes the clip:

So a certain Liu Feng, a multi-talented video editor from Beijing working at W+K Shanghai, traveled up to northern…

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Chinese portal Sina.com, which has one of the “good,” officially sanctioned video clip websites, is now holding a massive video blog 播客 contest which will end on July 15th.  According to the press release, actor Jacky Chan, directors Feng Xiaogang and Zhang Yuan, painter Fang Lijun, and the Asian Backstreet Boys aka the …

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Last spring we and others reported on the First Annual Cellphone Film Festival held by the Shanghai magazine Metroer.  Now you can check out the latest entries at the homepage of Metroer’s Third Annual Cellflix Festival (yes, I know, what happened to the second”? perhaps we were wrong last time!). They define cellflix as short…

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“Send your location in by SMS at any time to 106920052131”

Wozone 我族网 is a free online social networking service that can also be used on your cell phone. You SMS your location and it tells you who is nearby that you might want to meet.  It adds location to the usual online China features: chat rooms, BBS,…

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As car culture grows in China, I can’t wait to see how Chinese enthusiasts customize their cars.  Here’s a set of photos from Moobol/Molive (a photojournalism website) showing a DIY car interior complete with laptop and GPS.

As the caption says, “a this little QQ unexpectedly did has a completely modern remodel!” (I’m not familiar with…

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See Nan Yang’s extraordinary English translation of memedia’s Strawberry Weekly, issue 5, now at GVO, for a roundup of content in Chinese-language blogosphere. So much interesting content, there’s really no way to excerpt it.  It’s quite a bold publication.