A group blog about Chinese tech, media and design
A few weeks ago I was interviewed along with citizen reporter, Tufu Wugan aka “The Butcher”, in Jessi Levine’s What a “Human Flesh Search” Is, And How It’s Changing China.
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According to this report from Apple Daily HK, there’s a real-life troll that’s been going around on the subway in Hong Kong defacing various strangers’ luxury handbags with a ball point pen.
Haexagon Concepts has just released their industry report on the film industries in Hong Kong & China. It’s a snappy, well-researched report, and tackles subjects ranging from advertising methods to the emergence of transmedia storytelling in these two regions.
An excerpt about Hong Kong’s advertising quagmire:
“A major problem in HongKong is that there aren’t…
Continue readingStats on the commerce of film in Hong Kong & China
Until recently, I hadn’t seen Ai Weiwei’s Gangnam Style remix, but I definitely heard about it. Everyone on my social media feeds has been talking about, and people have emailed it to me. I’ve seen hilarious-looking pictures and read the commentary. But I’ve just not been able to sit down and watch it.
Why…
Continue readingFour Thoughts on Ai Weiwei’s Gangnam Style: Meme-ing as Activism
These days, I spend a lot of time at Peking University, and I’ve noticed a few interesting things around campus. There are a ton of things you might expect to see at any big university: ads for part time jobs, for print shops, and for student groups and events.
A few, however, caught my eye. Today, here are…
Continue readingHuawei Ads and Test Prep: The Writing on the Wall at Peking University
88 Bar writer An Xiao Mina is living and working in Uganda this fall and researching the technology community and growing Chinese population in East Africa.
I was craving kimchi the other night, as did some of my colleagues. So we headed out to Arirang, a Chinese-owned Korean…
Continue readingKimchi and G-Nuts, or, a Taste of the Kampala Roll
Sole Collector has an exclusive interview up about NBA superstar Dwyane Wade starting his own line of basketball sneakers with Li-Ning.
Aside from discussing Wade’s plans with his own brand, harkening back to almost two years ago when he commissioned a designer to create a logo for his name, it also talks a little bit about his views…
Continue readingChina’s Nike, Li-Ning, signs Dwyane Wade
With her permission, we decided it would be fun to give a roundup of Tricia’s ethnographic adventures during the spring & summer of this year.
Hanging out at a bar, the ever evolving third space, “After a rock band performed, the stage became a tattoo station.”
Talking to a female massage worker in Changsha…
Continue readingTricia’s ethnographic adventures roundup