China’s “denied access” doll
Posted on by Lyn Jeffery
Category: Virtual China
The Bus Uncle Saga Continues…
Posted on by Jason Li
The Bus Uncle is still very much alive in the minds of the Hong Kong media. EastSouthWestNorth speaks of several incidents:
- Oriental Sunday magazine cover: “Bus Uncle Calls Whores.” [ESWN link]
- Bus Uncle gets beat up by four at a restaurant. [ESWN link]
- The …
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Chinese animation and cartoons
Posted on by Lyn Jeffery
Another site one could spend hours on…searching among the cartoon images on China’s leading search engine, Baidu. Go here for the search that yielded the image above, Sun Wukong the Monkey King in “Rebellion Against Heaven,” this particular image from a book cover.
Go here for Baidu’s cartoon animation search. Just below the bulleted links you’ll…
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BBS today: your favorite poisonous snacks
Posted on by Lyn Jeffery
more on online housing protest
Posted on by Lyn Jeffery
It will be very interesting to see where this goes. China Digital Times tagged a longer Pacific Epoch Epoch Times article here. Zou Tao, the founder of the NotBuyHouse movement, has a blog here and a general website for the NotBuyHouse Alliance here. A couple of important points. First, Zou Tao…
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Virtual China Sightings in Beijing
Posted on by Jason Li
Reporting from Beijing.
I didn’t see QQ noodles at the local supermarket, but I did see Hong Lee’s Internet Snack:
Also spotted, at a mall, was a Popkart store, selling many adorable large-size plush dolls.
Protest Against Real Estate Prices
Posted on by Jason Li
An online movement to not buy a house for three years has been started here. Its goal is to stem the recent sharp rise in real estate prices, and particularly to stop real estate agents who are only in it only to make a quick buck at the expense of others.
Via PostShow.
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Hong Kong enlists kids in p2p monitoring
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bloggers on China’s love of BBS: how come?
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the Chinese Olsen twins: Sandy and Mandy
Posted on by Lyn Jeffery
Taiwanese girls with their own website and large online fanbase on the mainland. Well known enough that the release of recent photos on China’s BBS was noted on top Chinese tech blogs Postshow and IT news site Donews. The photos are passed on, posted on blogs, sent to cellphones, and so on. Look…
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