A group blog about Chinese tech, media and design
Check out the current issue of The Escapist, which explores Chinese gaming. Includes articles on Chinese piracy, transnational work relationships, and Chinese game design. Great stuff. I especially liked the article by Patrick Dugan on different approaches to cross-cultural textual communication in games. Excerpt:
A design I’m currently developing utilizes the Celtic…
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Google has its “zeitgeist” feature which allows you to take the pulse of most popular search terms for the week, month, or even year; Baidu has a similar feature called “list of hottest Chinese searches” 中文搜索风云榜. Neither are particularly intuitive to me, frankly, since they both divide the search terms into strange categories–e.g., Google’s “spring break” list…
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ESWN reports: A screen capture of the new Mission Impossible 3 movie has been floating around on the BBS’s recently. On it is what some call “history’s most awesome small advertisement” – a telephone number for getting “documents.” Author of ESWN, Roland Soong, decides to call up the number and ask for fake ID documents in order to…
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One of the numerous scans of China’s edition of Esquire magazine from their blog (hosted by Sina).
Via vincent’s blog.
In our continual coverage of the World Cup, we bring you a translation of a post entitled “Why Chinese People Are Not Good at Football” from the blog of a professor (李银河) at the 中国社会科学院社会学所 (Institute of Sociology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences):
“Alot of people are pained by the fact that Chinese football did not makes it…
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Have you been wondering why two of the most well-known online video clips come from greater China (Asian Backstreet Boys may be THE most well known around the world; and while Bus Uncle isn’t, it’s gotten an amazing amount of play for something that’s subtitled)? Chinese youth are armed with video cellphones, digital video cameras,…
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