If you really cared about emerging Internet practices and their social impact in China, AND if you were trying to keep up with social media, AND if you didn’t have all the time in the world to read blogs, AND if you read Chinese…you might just check out or even subscribe to Chinese venture capitalist and social entrepreneur Isaac Mao’s Twitter stream.…

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I saw this on the BBC Asia page yesterday:

“Mega-city move? Calls for Hong Kong and Shenzhen to merge into one city”

The people behind these “calls” is the Bauhinia Foundation Research Centre. Their director, Anthony Wu, is quoted as saying “If you look at the long term competitiveness of Hong
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The China Media Project, based out of the Hong Kong University, ran a recent blog article called QQ runs interactive feature page on the problem of “fake reporters” in China, which pointed out the wave of innovative news dashboards coming out of Mainland Chinese online news sites.

The screen below, taken from the …

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One. There’s a mandatory category where you state your country: you can choose between the “People’s Republic of China,” or “Other countries and places.”

Two. The speckled dots is, I believe, a sign that the image is supposed to prevent spam entries (sort of like the enter-the-code in the warped image…

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For those of you in the Arizona State University area, CaoFei and Yang FuDong is opening a show there this Friday. It’s called Business As Usual: New Video from China. See website for details:

http://asuartmuseum.asu.edu/businessasusual

Thanks to John Spiak for the link.

While IDEO and Frog have studios in Shanghai, Lunar in Hong Kong, and various other companies have done work in China, none of them market themselves with as much flair as the:

The Red Network consists of Kaizor Innovation, …

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An email arrived this morning from IFTF’s Jason Tester with the subject header: “What if France is making a backup copy of itself in China?”

The email contained a link to a post on Super Colossal titled: “China: USB External HD to the French.”

The scenario, laid out by Super Colossal…

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KFC boxes + 好丽友 cookie boxes + moon cake boxes + glue + scissors + metal snaps = movable home-made Bumble Bee (Transformer) model. Made by 阿呸 from Beijing.

And he built it as he went along, from sketches and pictures, without a plan/blueprint.

Then there’s the beautiful Photoshopped product:

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Go to his/her blog: E E E E E E E E.

From CDT, this repost of a useful article from China Youth Daily, in English on china.org.cn.  Article is titled, "My Kid is an Internet Addict", and it challenges the popular Chinese view that juvenile internet addiction is rampant in China, and that internet addiction is a particularly adolescent experience.   It also calls for more room for teenage voices to describe their own…

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