This just in: a new blog produced by the good folks at Ethical Corporation, who have a great website, magazine, and set of reports and conferences already available, focusing on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in China and elsewhere. Much of their online material is subscription only after a two-week trial, though one can sign up for a free weekly newsletter,…

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I simply couldn’t resist and had to return to Molive.cn’s citizen photojournalism site again today.  It’s pure China Daily odd news heaven, produced by who knows what kind of people, the kind who like to report on strange things for the rest of us to read. The kind who are photoblogging, because that’s another name for what this is.  Aggregated photoblogging. Top photoblog on Molive…

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Molive.cn is a Chinese citizen news site that’s photo-heavy and makes wonderful browsing.  According to this Christian Science Monitor article (written already a few weeks ago, so the numbers are surely bigger by now):

Eric Zhang, a former staffer at the China Daily news organization based in Beijing, has launched
www.molive.cn, a
site…

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If you haven’t visited it yet, or recently, you’ve got to see the menu (sorry) at eatingchinese.org, a glorious site that brings together everything to do with chinese food that can be done online, including:

chinese crepes on YouTube–what a great idea to expand upon for all of us living and traveling…

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老动画 offers cartoons from the Chinese person’s childhood (streaming video). There are separate sections for foreign (most Japanese, a few American) works and local works. Incredible resource for anyone who wants a peek at the influences of the new generation.

Via PostShow.

So says a Chinese professor when discussing the educational experiences of Chinese youth in Internet cafes.  A recent controversy surrounding the strict regulation of Internet cafes, played out over the past 6 months in the small town of Fangshan in Shanxi province, reveals the very real concerns of parents, educators, businesspeople, and bureaucrats about what the Internet is for, who should be able to access…

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Stardict is a translation engine that allows you to select multiple dictionary sources at a time, to get different interpretations of the same word. You can choose anything from the Oxford Chinese-English Dictionary to the Soothill-Hodous Dictionary of Chinese Buddhist Terms.

The caveat: You have to pay to select more than five search…

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PERK 破壳 is the duo of You Zao 由早 and Wowo 窝窝, a Shanghai design studio set up in 2004.

Check out their fantastic illustrations and stickers, among other goodies:

(via 早 blog)

EGao (恶搞) + Friendlies: caricatured celebrity heads (I recognize at least three from HK) on the 2008 doll bodies.

More at CaoBin. Via PostShow.

See previous posts about them here and here.

Kudos to 造谣社.