I was looking for something else on Flickr, when I came across a bunch of photos posted by someone named “missing person net” 寻人网.  Since April 21, 2005, “missing person net” has been posting photos of missing mainland Chinese people on Flickr.

The most recent was posted on May 28, 2007:

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Paper Scenes: Appreciating Engraved Paper Creations was posted May 31 07 at the design show forum at Yesky.com, a  popular Chinese IT portal.  The photos came from a Netease BBS, apparently, but a quick Baidu search didn’t turn up anything more, and there’s no artist attribution. I don’t even know…

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Ethical Corporation is a publisher and conference organizer on corporate ethics–broadly defined.  Their material is fresh and thorough.  You can sign up for a newsletter, and they have short podcasts as well.

Listen to this podcast with Toby Webb, EC’s Editor, and Paul French, their Asia-Pacific Editor (who is also publishing and marketing director at Access Asia…

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Found this interesting account today, titled: This is how North Korean quality restaurants entertain foreign guests!  It’s a series of photos and commentary on what really matters–what’s the food like in North Korea?  Rough translation:

North Korea is the same as we were before the 1980s; the standards for receiving foreign and domestic guests are completely different.  All…

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Thanks to China Digital Times for the link to this rather extraordinary video, posted by someone called daughterofchina, whose producers are using the Internet and Youtube as a means of online environmental activism. It would be nice to know more about who produced it. I searched Yoqoo (which I notice is now calling itself Youku, thank god), Baidu, and Tudou…

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Our first subtitled Chinese video! It’s the story of Wang Qiang, a Sichuan barber who grew up making model planes and eventually built his own and became a self-taught pilot. This is one of the things I love about China–an ordinary guy can build his own plane and fly it, without a whole lot of interference from anyone.  Especially in rural areas.  The government appears…

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Check out Shanshui Records website, where you can find MP3s, news about shows, photos, and buy CDs in RMB, USD, CAD and AUD.  Elyse Ribbons at City Weekend calls Shanshui “the mainland’s sole refuge for geeky, mathbop electronica artists since its inception four years ago.”

One more short post on Chinese beatboxing. I think this is one of the guys who drives the bbox.cn.com site, seeing as how he spits the URL at the end of this video.  Reading the comments on Youtube is interesting as well–seeing how a young Korean Chinese in Changchun can actually reach people all over the world, via a webcam in…

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The Shanghaiist posted on this a few months ago already, but I just came across these Chinese beatboxing videos and had to explore further.   

Shanghaiist describes the clip:

So a certain Liu Feng, a multi-talented video editor from Beijing working at W+K Shanghai, traveled up to northern China over…

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Bo Shao, founder/CEO of EachNet, which was later sold off and incorporated into eBay has opened a new blog.

I found it interesting how much more informal, yet actually informative Bo Shao’s bio was in Chinese than in English.

I don’t know if this discrepancy is standard in Chinese versus English bio’s,…

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