Kaiser Kuo has posted an online version of his recent column for local magazine That’s Beijing. The article is called: Provincial Poetry and delineates the various regional stereotypes within China in poetry.

Excerpts about the two regions most frequently cited:

“The Shanghainese are philistines, and this they’ll gladly own:
Commercial instincts permeate them to the…

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Some of you may have heard that China is going through a very, very cold spell right now and that the army has been mobilized to help out the citizens.

I found some photos today on awflasher that I’d like to share.

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Found a neat site recently,
the Dark Visitor: “Tracking the history, organization, exploits and government affiliation of Chinese hackers.”

Posts include:

• Mysterious Chinese Hacker Slide Show. A sample slide is shown below.
• Chinese Hackers and the 高考 (National College Entrance Exam)“Chinese hackers…

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Unicycle + hockey + Hong Kong. (Also note that the field/rink is nestled betweed roaring buses and major roads.)

Thanks to Rachel Kalmar for the link.

I came across a BBS on Sina tonight, images from an exhibition of photos of Chinese inmates in asylums, period unknown, location unknown.  They looked uncannily like someone taking photos through a security camera…but then Jason figured out they were photos of photos hanging on a wall.

For non-Chinese readers, go to…

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I recently received an email from a young Chinese friend who mentioned being inspired by amateur Welsh opera singer Paul Potts, who won a British idol singing contest last summer.   I’d never heard of Potts, but a quick Baidu search turned up a wealth of Paul Potts videos on Baidu video and…

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LiLei and Han MeiMei were the two main characters from a series of middle-school English textbooks used by Mainland Chinese students in the early 80s. I’ve unearthed a small wave of nostalgia about them online, including speculations on their love triangle with Englishman Jim Green and an annotated cast of characters.

Then …

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James Fallows has a wonderful little post up on the Atlantic entitled, “Workshop of the world, fine arts division.” Mostly his post has some great photos (like the one below) of his trip to Dafen, a fine art reproduction village outside of Shenzhen.

An artist and his “works.”

For…

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In the past decade, the pollution in Hong Kong has been getting more and more serious, and most of it is attributable to the winds that bring the haze from factories in the Mainland.

But sometimes, it’s our own fault, or, if you prefer, the fault of the big corporations in Hong Kong, as was the case a few days ago:

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Featured art!

Mayming (= Semay Wu and Seaming To, two British-born Chinese musicians) collaborated with Michael England (who did the visuals) on “a short movie to a virtual film festival presented by Toshiba in Second Life”:

Michael describes these as stills from an improvisational audio piece: “…I treated it as
a game almost, with each…

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