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Supporting creativity wins on Chinese crowd-sourcing platform Demohour

Posted on by Lyn Jeffery

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…

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88 Bar Receives Runner Up in Danwei’s Model Worker Award 2012!

Posted on by Tricia Wang

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…

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Featured design: Navel

Posted on by Jason Li


Text reads:

  • Down the left: “Give me one too!”
  • On the right: “Navel is a kid who can’t grow up. He takes his studies, play, love and work seriously and lives seriously around us. He has the heart of someone who can’t grow up, he is every one of us…”

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How Diverse is China’s Social Media? Three Sites Give a Peek

Posted on by An Xiao Mina

Chinese memes.  They’re not all serious.  I’m drawn to the way memes are used to effect political and social change, but with over 500 million Chinese online, the majority of Sina Weibo is fun, fun, fun.  Indeed, as Tricia and I discuss in our recent op-ed in Wired, the danger of real name registration extends beyond those making…

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The Gem of all the Linsanity Articles: Adam Minter’s article shares views from Weibo Users

Posted on by Tricia Wang

Linsanity has calmed down and everyone should be  finished reading through their bookmarked articles on Jeremy Lin. The one article that stands out and pretty much summarizes what Chinese people think of Jeremy Lin, is Adam Minter‘s Bloomberg piece. Adam gives us a view from Weibo, then contexualizes it within Chinese politics and media, and then ends addresses race…

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