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One of the latest China meme circulating around on the western blogosphere: Kid’s Republic Bookstore, Beijing.
And we’ve tracked down the Chinese name (蒲蒲兰书店), their website (http://www.poplar.com.cn/) and the address (courtesy of Frame).
Via BoingBoing, originally from the Cool Hunter.
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“The people’s heroes will never fade”
Chinese UN peacekeeper Lieutenant Colonel Du Zhaoyu was killed in Lebanon by an Israeli rocket on July 25, along with three other UN peacekeepers. China was already not supportive (to say the least) of Israel’s bombing of Lebanon and Lebanese civilians, and this death only adds fire to an…
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To ensure that FuRong doesn’t disappear from the public consciousness, we have her latest offering (and yes, we kind of caught it late):
Bid, on eBay, for dinner with FuRong. She prefers a guy 8 years her junior, more than 180cm tall, with pale skin and a nice butt. (I did not make any of that up.)
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城市吧 CityBar looks like a cool Web2.0 map hack that uses photographs to show what the street would look like if you stood there, facing that direction. Unfortunately, I haven’t got the site to load properly and so I couldn’t test it out myself.
Via PostShow.
From a strip entitled 混沌村 (HunDunCun = primitive village).
As always, translations in maroon:
Link to original comic on sina.
Why is it that one of China’s “classic” games of the past 4 years is still virtually invisible on the English language web? I Googled it, I Google Blog searched it, I tried to Technorati it but couldn’t get through on this particular Chinese server, I Google News’d it, I Terra Nova’d it, I Pacific Epoch’d it (and I Donews’d it for…
Continue readingMoli Baobei/Crossgate 魔力宝贝 BBS
Check out one of the most popular musicians in northwestern China’s Xinjiang province: Murat Muhtar. Thanks to Michael Manning on his blog The Opposite End of China, who has digitized and uploaded two of Muhtar’s videos. One selection is a typical music video of two beautiful people dancing together against…
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