The Long-list King of China Bloggers Returns

Posted on by Jason Li

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When I first started blogging about China, Roland Soong’s EastSouthWestNorth was an essential destination for any China watchers at the time. This was back in 2005. A former media analyst, and now heir to some formidable Chinese-literary estates, Soong would translate page-long excerpts from multiple newspapers and magazines about the same “suddenly breaking incident.” Then he would throw in a few terse…

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Typography Design

Chinese etymology meets modern graphic design

Posted on by Jason Li

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Entrepreneur ShaoLan Hsueh has teamed up with designer-illustrator Noma Bar to breathe new life into the age old practice of teaching kids Chinese characters using its pictorial etymology. And they need your support for their Kickstarter campaign.

Even though the campaign over sells itself (with prosaic catchphrases like “The real agenda behind…

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WeChat: Buying their way to the top of the world?

Posted on by Jason Li

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I saw a version of this (adorable) ad on local Hong Kong TV a few weeks ago – it surprised me that WeChat had gone to new lengths to advertise its service. Before this, WeChat had been buying up traditional ad space on the tops of skyscrapers and in subway stations in Hong Kong (in the case of the latter, the ads…

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Book Review

Book Review: Understanding China through Comics, Volume 3: The Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms

Posted on by Jason Li

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The third volume of “Understanding China through Comics” continues Liu’s epic quest to chronicle all of ancient Chinese history in comic form. As with the first two volumes, the book zips through Chinese history, in this case 907 to 1368 AD, with text and illustrations.

Liu spends more of the third volume explaining Chinese cultural ideology and geopolitical context than…

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Example of a cultural mis-understanding forming a misleading business insight

Posted on by Tricia Wang

Reposted from Cultural Bytes.

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I love that The Atlantic has covered Red Associates’s work in ethnography and insights. They have brilliant ethnographers and I would recommend them as an awesome and insightful supplier.

Although the article contained a minor point that I believe is misleading.

These…

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