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A short story called Raising Whales by Xiang Zuotie. Excerpt clipped from a post on Prospect Magazine.
At dusk one evening, as cooking smoke started rising from the roofs of the houses, the head of our village came back from market with baby whales for everybody. We were going to develop the local whale-farming industry,…
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This is a collaborative post between Lyn Jeffery and Jason Li. Lyn begins by writing…
Crowdsourcing has been around for awhile (this 2006 Wired article nicely lays out the concept). Over the last three years, crowdsourcing has been applied to fundraising with stunning results on Kickstarter and Indiegogo (“Go fund yourself”), and…
Continue readingSupporting creativity wins on Chinese crowd-sourcing platform Demohour
Above: An excerpt from a six-page comic about Cheng I Sao.
Below: Excerpts from a CNN mental floss article about her:
The most successful pirate of all time controlled a fleet of more than 1,500 ships and upwards of 80,000 sailors — and she did it all without the help of facial hair.…
Continue readingCheng I Sao: the biggest pirate in history was Chinese and female!
Blogs on China have come and gone over the last decade. Then twitter came and everyone stopped blogging in 2006. Long form analysis was shrunken to 140 characters. But then something magical happened, a resurgence of blogs on China bursted onto the internet over the last few years!
One of the longest standing and most important blogs, Danwei, is…
Continue reading88 Bar Receives Runner Up in Danwei’s Model Worker Award 2012!
Mr. Sea Monster (海怪先生), a cafe in Gulangyu (鼓浪屿), Xiamen.
Exact address: 鼓浪屿乌埭路2号
Via Samantha Culp. Photo sources: 1, 2.
From the Atlantic blog, by Dan Chinoy:
This suburban expansion has taken place so quickly that in some places, it has created what are known in Chinese as 城中村 or chengzhongcun, which translates roughly to village-in-a-city: older mud and brick houses and abandoned fields surrounded by brand new apartment complexes. Often,…
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The following are the excerpts of an informal email conversation I had with Marco Sparmberg, a trans-media filmmaker & content developer based in Hong Kong.
Q: What brought you to Hong Kong?
A: I grew up with the 80s and 90s HK films running at the midnight slots of German…
Continue readingInterview with Marco Sparmberg, Hong Kong-based trans-media filmmaker
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Continue readingFeatured design: Navel
