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鲍昆 Bao Kun is (according to billsdue) a renowned photographer in China, who joined the Chinese Photography Association in 1983 and also taught at the University of Science & Technology Beijing.

His photoblog has some great work, including a post (full of photos) about New Cities New Citizens:

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Continue readingVeteran photographer: 鲍昆 Bao Kun

Fun finding of the day — a recipe-diagram for cooking chicken with beer! (Rough translations given in maroon.)

Go to original post (currently down) or photo on Yupoo.

Via Global Voices Online’s Memedia translation (an old issue). Thank you tian for fixing my translation.

The title says it all. It’s a bit slow for my taste and doesn’t give me the traditional variants that I want, but check it out — it’s pretty handy and may be right for you.

Link: Firefox add-on link
Link: Author’s homepage

Happy Chinese New Year!

P.S. I really like this set of characters from 张小盒 (Boxy Zhang), but…

They do resemble these guys from Japan alot…

From the Environmental News Network:

“…the world’s largest cow-dung methane power plant started operation on January 21 in China’s Inner Mongolia region. With an investment of 45 million RMB (roughly $US5.7 million) from the country’s largest milk producer, Mengniu Dairy, the plant is able to supply 10 million kilowatt-hours of electricity to the national power
grid.”

The article…

Continue readingCow gas helps power Inner Mongolia

Apple has disclosed that their first store in China will be in Beijing, scheduled to open in time for the 2008 Olympics.

It will be located on the to-be-renovated Qianmen Street, which, according to TUAW, will be “the city’s second pedestrian-only shopping street and it’s reported
that Apple will be forgoing it’s well-established storefront in favor
of a…

Continue readingChina’s first Apple store in time for the Olympics

From a post on billdsue:
“According to this article, UUpark intends to make Leon the next Hello Kitty, and Sequoia and SIG invested $1.5M into the company in late 2006.”

And so I went to check out some clips (not bad, not great) and then found some comic diaries, like …

Continue readingChina’s Hello Kitty talks about the internet

Kaiser Kuo has posted an online version of his recent column for local magazine That’s Beijing. The article is called: Provincial Poetry and delineates the various regional stereotypes within China in poetry.

Excerpts about the two regions most frequently cited:

“The Shanghainese are philistines, and this they’ll gladly own:
Commercial instincts permeate them to the…

Continue readingPoem about modern regional stereotypes

Some of you may have heard that China is going through a very, very cold spell right now and that the army has been mobilized to help out the citizens.

I found some photos today on awflasher that I’d like to share.

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Continue readingThe cold in China

Found a neat site recently,
the Dark Visitor: “Tracking the history, organization, exploits and government affiliation of Chinese hackers.”

Posts include:

• Mysterious Chinese Hacker Slide Show. A sample slide is shown below.
• Chinese Hackers and the 高考 (National College Entrance Exam)“Chinese hackers…

Continue readingA glimpse “inside the world of Chinese hackers”