A group blog about Chinese tech, media and design
Peijin Chan is a photojournalist based in Shanghai. (This below is NOT him.)
Chinese New Year:
Temporary housing for earthquake victims:
See Peijin’s Flickr here. Found courtesy of Micah Sittig.
A Chinese artist made Alex Ross’ Ten Best Classical-Music Performances list in the New Yorker.
A description of the artist and the performance from an earlier piece in the New Yorker:
The pride of Beijing’s underground—No Beijing, Yan Jun calls it—is a twenty-two-year-old indie-rock wunderkind named Zhang Shouwang, who also goes…
Continue readingD22 makes the New Yorker’s classical music list
Empty fake pancake shop next to real pancake shop, during the day.
Projection of pancake shop next to real pancake shop, during the night.
By artist Wang Gongxin, hosted by the Arrow Factory, about Beijing-classic hutong pancake shops.
Goto Arrow Factory’s webpage, or the exhibition’s facebook page.…
Continue readingArt in Beijing: Pancake neighbors
From Danwei:
The Black-Voda-Pod, also known as the Voda-Pod-Berry, encapsulates the dreams and realities of China’s average mobile phone user: It is a fake BlackBerry device, sporting a fake Vodafone logo, and running a fake iPhone operating system, including a fake Opera web browser. And it works too.
The owner, a local soldier, did…
Continue readingWhat an average Chinese mobile user wants
Photo of Shanghai schoolchildren by alokemon on Flickr.
On his blog, Micah Sittig discusses choosing between international, local-Chinese and in-between schools for your children. The post focuses on Shanghai. Highlights include:
Continue readingChoosing a school for your kid…
