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Chunjie aka Spring Festival aka Chinese New Year is here! It was my first month in China last year, and I had just moved to Beijing. I vividly remember dropping off my roommate at Beijing airport for her own participating in Chunyun–the elegant word-pairing that sums up…
Continue readingThe Last Train Home: Following One Migrant Family’s Struggles
From Quora, response written by Dashan (Mark Rowswell), the Canadian man that appears in all sorts of Chinese advertisements and TV shows with a mouthful of fluent Mandarin.
The original question:
Why do so many Chinese learners seem to hate Dashan (Mark Rowswell)?
He seems like a nice guy. Does he…
Continue readingUncanny confessions by Dashan, the white face who speaks Mandarin on China TV
Image courtesy Scallop Holden on a Creative Commons License.
With the world’s eyes on North Korea right now, it’s important to remember the role of China in this story. As the North’s primary ally, China will be playing a critical role in the coming months and years as the leadership transition plays out.
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Continue readingIs China a Telecom Bridge to North Korea?
There’s an interesting article in Penn Olson recently about Twitter’s new redesign and just how much it resembles Sina Weibo. It’s been circulating around a few tech circles I follow:
Twitter’s slick new redesign has brought it – visually and practically – closer to…
Continue readingIs Twitter Catching Up To Weibo?: Multimedia and Emoji in Western Social Media
China telecommunications expert, Marc Laperrouza, tips us off to an unconfirmed bit a of juicy news about the Chinese telecommunication market: China Telecom is being investigated for anti-monopoly infringement! You don’t hear of state-owned enterprises the stature of China Telecom being investigated for monopoly infringement very often so this is pretty big news. Mark explains the charges:
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Is investigative journalism a crime against the Chinese people? Is free speech a Western Conspiracy? The nationalists in China seem to think so. On Oct. 18, a group of men in Hebei Province performed a public ceremony in the name of patriotism, in which they burned newspapers and magazines of the Southern Media Group (Nanfang, 南方传媒), which is known for its investigative…
Continue readingBook burning? Nationalists accuse Southern Media of treason by burning their paper
I came across this article recently on hackaday.com, talking up the possibility of new hackerspaces in China:
Government leadership in Shanghai wants to build 100 community hackerspaces funded by the Chinese government. Each space will be at least 100 square meters, open 200 days a year, and come equipped with wood and…
Continue readingShanghai Government to Sponsor Hacking Spaces?