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The Missing Piece Travels to China

February 17, 2006 by Jason Li

From a blog linked to from Postshow, accompanying an entry on 缘 (~fate):

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Doesn’t it remind you of:

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Also from the same site, a modernized rendition of traditional Opera characters:

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http://fengwomei.51.net/weblog/

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Artist: baisejinyao

February 17, 2006 by Jason Li

From a post on Netease’s tech forum, collected works of an artist named baisejinyao:

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Source: http://www.postshow.net

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Nice interview on Joystiq with Hoyt Ma, The9’s Senior Marketing Manager for World of Warcraft.
WoW has been a massive hit in China–Chinese gamers make up half of the game’s worldwide player base. And this despite technical [graphics and broadband requirements], financial, and visual [getting used to 3D vs. 2D Korean games] barriers for ordinary players. But…

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New phase of internet cafes

February 17, 2006 by Lyn Jeffery

China Tech News notes that Shenzhen is one of the cities officially allowed to ramp up Internet cafe development.

According to a representative from
the Shenzhen Municipal Cultural Bureau, Shenzhen has been listed as one
of the nine trial cities in China to set up Internet cafe long-term
management mechanisms and been approved to develop…

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