Photo from Time magazine online

Observe: Han Han (韩寒). He’s a race car mini champion, author of China’s bestselling book of the last 20 years (a novel about student high school life in Shanghai) and one of the most read bloggers in China. What’s he blog about? Anything from his latest fling with the press to sarcastic social…

Continue readingThe Han Han craze

I tweeted about this several weeks ago, but it seems to be making rounds on the internet today, so in case you missed it:

Modern architect in Hong Kong turns a 330 square foot apartment into a den of luxury by using movable, modular furniture units: Incredible.

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Continue readingHong Kong’s Transformers apartment

There’s already a QQ HD app for the iPad, even though the device has not been officially released outside of the US yet.

ESWN basically got it all down, so I’m just going to quote this one:

The Marriage Interviews For A Leftbehind Girl:
(originally at Southern Metropolis Daily)

The population in China is known to have more males than females.  That should theoretically made females more in demand as many males cannot find marriage partners.  Nevertheless,…

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Reporting from the Tudou film festival awards, Frank  Yu tweets about the winner: A 64-minute, World of Warcraft machinima that satirizes internet addiction, internet censorship and the recent governmental-commercial spat over the WoW license renewal.

In other words, it’s a mild form of protest.

To see the video with English subs, go…

Continue readingWoW machinima as a form of satirical protest!?

Excerpts from the blog of Artefact, a Seattle-based design:

1. China consists of many markets and many unique customer segments…
2. The Chinese have got their minds on their money, and their money on their minds…
3. Chinese society can be partially understood in terms of social identity theory and notions…

Continue readingTips about R&D for China

I have visited a few hutong houses. While some of my former Microsoft expatriates like the exotic feelings and the bragging rights of living in the hutong houses, I would not want to live there. These hutong houses usually have no private bath room, no heating and no insulation. The temperature of Beijing can drop to as low as -10 C in the winter.…

Continue readingA different point of view on the last of the hutongs…

Stunning photographs from Craig Mod of his semi-recent trip to Tibet, including monks eating French fries…

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Banco Santander is planning a $400 million+ joint venture with China Construction Bank to develop rural China. One possible perk, China South America points out, is that they may be able to bypass the 20% ownership limit for foreign ownership of urban banks.

See China South America for more details.

Retro 80s:

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