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From Tainan…

KLC: A family chain (of one), selling fried chicken and burgers:

From Beijing…

Yonghe Dawang: a nationwide chain first launched in Beijing, serving Chinese-style fast food:

KFC Ripoff Contest results:
Beijing 1, Tainan 0.

Photo credits:
Anonymous medical student…

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From Sam Flemming, over at the China IWOM Blog:

1. …Anyone interested in participating in the group purchase can join the QQ group and continue discussing the details of the purchase.
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2. …The group leader plays a very important role in the group purchase process. On one side, he communicates with group members and…

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A listen-to-this meme has been passed around the China Twittersphere today, so I thought I’d share it with you: Seeded by Adam Schokora over at 56minus1, it states,

all music people out there, Chinese indie folk music, please listen and share your thoughts: http://tinyurl.com/chqtpf

I like the first song quite a bit, and I’ve stolen it here…

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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…

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From Paul Denlinger’s Twitter:

每次看到人写China is a collectivist society就心里想这个人根本不懂中国

Translation: Every time I see someone write China is a collectivist society, I think to myself, this guy seriously doesn’t understand China.

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.…

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A positive sign from a report recently released by the Climate Group:

Investment in renewable energy in China – almost USD $12 billion in 2007 – is almost level with world leader Germany as a percentage of GDP. Stronger policies from the Chinese government are creating increased demand for low carbon investment and China will require a further USD $398 billion (USD…

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Sold at the Chinese New Year Festival/Market in Victoria Park, Hong Kong:

Via Casey’s Fist of Fun.

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…

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