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From Engadget:

China just passed the US and the world with the reveal of the world’s fastest supercomputer. The fully operational Tianhe-1A, located at the National Supercomputer Center in Tianjin, scored 2.507 petaflops as measured by the LINPACK benchmark. That moves it past Cray’s 2.3 petaflops Jaguar located at Oak Ridge National Lab in Tennessee. Tianhe-1A achieved…

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Excerpts from ITworld article:

Youku, China’s largest video hosting site, has partnered with Disney to begin streaming the studio’s TV shows, said the company’s CEO Victor Koo.

Last month, one of Youku’s competitors, Ku6 Media, signed a content deal with Sony Pictures Television and Warner Bros. to provide the broadcasting rights for several hundred films…

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A fashion line from Shanghai-based indie fashion label “JL.”

From the adverts below, the choices of haircut, posture and backdrop are the most interesting parts.

Via NeoChaEDGE.

Appealing? I think not.

What’s missing?

For example…

Action:

The Chinese premier, Wen Jinbao, did not deign to attend the meetings personally, instead sending a second-tier official in the country’s foreign ministry to sit opposite Obama himself. The diplomatic snub was obvious and brutal, as was the practical implication: several times during the session, the world’s most powerful heads of state were forced to wait around…

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The Economic Observer has put together a great collection of reactions to the Gates & Buffett charity banquet, which gives us a great look on what Chinese people think about American philanthropy. I’ve quoted my favorite below:

The Economic Observer’s Editorial Board discussed the structural and legal barriers to charity:

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Niurenku produces and publishes videos of parkour, skate, snow and surf in China.

For example, the Best of Skate Shanghai 2010:

Featured today: A bilingual language learning cartoon aired in Xinjiang.

Details from a post on the autonomous region blog:

[A] weekly children TV program called Bille Ögüneyli (“let’s learn together”; in Chinese, it’s Shuangyu genwoxue, “learn the bilingual with me”), broadcast on the Youth Channel (XJTV-12) of the state owned Xinjiang Television…

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Frog in a Well China has an interesting and exhaustive post about the history and culture of crying in ancient China. The article starts off with:

A while back I was wondering why people in classical Chinese texts seemed to cry so much. Was being able to shed tears on demand something that people were supposed to be…

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Pangbianr 旁边儿 has soft launched pangbianr radio, a series of podcasts on art & culture in China. The first episode is “On Building Electronic Devices During The Cultural Revolution,” an interview with a woman who dabbled in making radios during that technology-starved era.

Highlights include an account of how she was the only woman at the…

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