The New York Times has a wonderful interactive map on pollution in China.

Link: Mapping the Impact

Reporting from Shanghai.

This is Karl. Karl is an actor, model, MC and runs his own entertainment consulting business. He blogs about all this as well. For example:

“In my experience, and (I seem to say this often) especially in China, that schedules are often floating…

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An ad for Shanghai General Motors.

The site I got this said “we didn’t quite get this either,” so I’ll give a stab at it.

The aesthetic style of the backdrop reminded me of something I saw in a China Esquire a while back, and is, I…

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Jared Braiterman, a principal at Giant Ant, recently showed me some of their work from their on-going research on youths and technology (dubbed “Mobile China China Mobile“).

Here’s an excerpt from one of their visual reports, entitled “Chinese Students Rarely Use Their Own Photos As Avatars” (download):

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CICData has a great post on the English blog of its founder, Sam Flemming, which translates some of the nicknames and abbreviations that writers on car BBS use.  I’m guessing many of these are not limited to car enthusiasts — FB, or "fubai" (lit., corruption) is probably used offline as well, to refer to conspicuous personal consumption.  CIC’s Chinese blog has…

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People’s Daily Online, English version, announced a new feature last week:

From today, China Forum will publish a question or a topic on the forum
once a week, you are warmly welcomed to give your answers or opinions
or comments. And best messages will be edited and published on our
homepage attached with your registered name. For…

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Via One Inch Punch.

Image excerpts spliced from scans of 王曲, the official journal of Hu’s #7 military school outside Xian. These particular panels are about military training during the War of Resistance Against Japan.

I’ve translated it as best as I could given the image quality.

Taken from Frog in the Well, the China…

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This caught my eye when I was writing that Google post the other day, and I couldn’t resist:

Baidu 少儿, or Baidu Kids, is beautifully done and reflects Baidu’s understanding of the Chinese market. When I was doing fieldwork in Beijing last summer, one of the teachers we interviewed said that some Grade 1 homework assignments involved running…

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A gander at the China version of Google Labs reveals several “new” projects:

• Google’s Windows app for pinyin input:
• A Life (生活) search, which includes categories such as train tickets, food, work, and housing.
• A Navigation (导航) portal, which serves a giant page of text links. Nothing…

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