A group blog about Chinese tech, media and design
First up, a modern rendition of the Zhangye Danxia (a classic landscape found only in China) by Rebecca Mok.
(Via Rebecca Mok Illustrates.)
Then, a classic Chinese landscape style rendering by Zao Lu…
(Via Co.Design.)
…except that Zao’s “paintings” are actually photoshopped pictures of trash…
Continue readingClassic & Modern Chinese Landscape Paintings: Which is which?
Excerpted from Bytes of China:
A few weeks ago, a conversation about the popularity of WeChat emerged on a tech mailing lists. Someone posted several reasons why they thought WeChat was more usable than Skype. They listed several technical reasons, such as ease of use, great mobile interface, and more efficient…
Continue readingSome initial thoughts about the popularity of QQ’s WeChat (aka Weixin)
From the Atlantic, In Hong Kong, a Sanctuary for Banned Books:
Later that year we began to get mainland visitors from cities like Beijing and Tianjin who were traveling on their own. Our sign said “People’s Commune” in Chinese, and our logo was Mao Zedong’s face, so maybe that caught their eye. Sometimes, customers would ask…
Continue readingHow a bookstore evolved into becoming a banned books center in Hong Kong
Editor’s note: Below are excerpts from Tricia’s article on Makeshift, Pleasure Hacking:
Lao Bing is doing what most males at the Internet cafe are doing, have done, or will be doing later on that night—searching for porn. Users across the world are drawn to this…
Continue readingHacking for Pleasure, not Politics
Photos by Windell H. Oksay, from an Evil Mad Scientist post in 2009. From the hours I spent there last year, it hasn’t changed since then. Note the heavy advertising expenditure from Samsung, who were out there back in 2009 already.
The electronics markets around Huaqiangbei Road (华强北路) in Shenzhen…
Continue readingThe Hardware Fairyland of Huaqiangbei Road, Shenzhen
China is now the largest car market. But many Western companies are discovering that simply transferring cars designed for Western users do not always appeal to Asian users. Point in case GM’s Cadillac, a car built for…
Continue readingInspiration for the future of cars from resource-constrained vendors in China