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Background

• The clip is entitled “President Attacked by Shoe, Leads to War” (总统被扔鞋引发血战) in reference to the event last year when a journalist attacked US President Bush by throwing a shoe at him.
• It was produced by 胡戈 (Hu Ge), the man behind the original egao film, the “Bloody Case That Started from a Steam Bun” (see ESWN’s coverage of…

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On May 16, BBC reported:

China is building what is billed as its first sex theme park, aimed at improving both the sex education and the sex life of its visitors.

Due to open in Chongqing in October, Love Land will include displays of giant genitalia, naked bodies and an exhibition on the history…

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IEEE has an article about the digital TV standard that China rolled out in time for the Olympics.

Here are some highlights:

Being late in this particular game is not necessarily a bad thing. It allowed China to take advantage of advances in information-coding technologies that make digital television in China—unlike that in the rest…

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From fannster‘s Twitter feed:

The highest 3G mobile users in China are migrant workers. It’s their porno device! Blimey

Source: folks from 1mp.

Caption translate to: “So cheap you would think this is true.”

Agency: Ogilvy Hong Kong
Client: 零售百货业 (PX-Mart)

Original source: Ad Kung-fu.

I recently rediscovered Po Bronson‘s essay about the expatriate myth surrounding Hong Kong entitled Trafficking in Extremes: the Adventure of Working Abroad (circa 2005).

Bronson begins with a grand overview of how Hong Kong is unique (80% housing is government-built non-market, multiple banks print bills) and then continues to look at some bigger issues. For example:

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ESWN translates an article from Southern Metropolis Daily about a real-life version of the popular BBS Xici Hutong. Specifically, the post detailed the failure to create a “Xici Street District in Nanjing to provide Internet users with a place to gather and spend money.”

The photo above is taken from the district’s apology…

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马文, a graduating student creates a self promotional video featuring a demo of his motion graphics / computer interface work, uploads the clip to Youku and the internet loves it.

The stats: 885,662 views in 26 days and nearing 3000 comments.

A collaboration between JWT Shanghai and some artists.

Via the Longyin Review.

In a recent post, 56minus1 offers a great overview of some of the ways people in China have been using video:

“Paike” (拍客) refers to content that can largely be described as “citizen journalism”… The videos themselves are often entirely netizen-shot and edited: one Sina Paike video is a classic case of a…

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