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Held on the 3rd floor of a Beijing bookstore Disanji, we bring you a glimpse of some DIY craft by college students:

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China IT community Donews has an opinion piece by blogger Guo Yanjing called "If Myspace wants to succeed, it shouldn’t act like an outsider", that I quite like.  It gives you a sense of what some of the debates are in the Chinese online world regarding Myspace in China.  It also reveals some of what makes it so…

Continue readingon MySpace “localization”

Found this on Youtube: a clip from Sky TV from the Internet addiction clinic in Beijing.  It’s based in a military hospital and is run military-style–the kids even wear camouflage.  I’ve tried to get an interview and a visit at the place but haven’t been able to yet. The part where they set them up with real-life shooting games instead of virtual…

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Yesterday I came across a Tianya BBS forum called Tianya Myself 天涯真我 (Roland Soong of ESWN translated it as True Self Community Forum…I’m just using the Chinglish version from the website itself). It’s the place where February Girl first posted her photos, and I guess what I’m writing about here is just the latest version of that: pretty girls…

Continue readingBBS girls: mainstream voyeurism

This week, a parody on Doraemon, a Japanese comic/cartoon popular in East Asia (see Wikipedia entry here). Found on a blog as part of a longer comic, which use shock value for humor.

As always, translations in maroon.

See full post here at the 3stupidman blog.

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Continue readingSunday Strip: Doraemon Parody

(Image dissection: shadow puppet head, woodcut clouds, modern-art paint splatting, Chinese red)

(Image dissection:  “For Rent” post-it’s and phone numbers common on unkempt walls mixed with sharp, modern dragon figure)

(Image dissection: bamboo scaffolding + construction + drippy paint)

Beautiful artwork on a (sadly) user-unfriendly site. Not sure if he…

Continue readingFeatured Artist: 乔西 (QiaoXi)

No filters for the word “underground 地下,” apparently, in virtual China.  A Baidu search for “underground films” 地下电影, for instance, reveals Chinese language pages such as Underground Film Forum, a partial list of Chinese underground films from Xici Hutong (which includes Zhang Yimou’s “To Live”, strangely), a review of selected underground Chinese films, and a Baidu Knows question:…

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I see from Danwei that CNNIC has released its 19th China Internet report with data to the end of 2006.  Chinese copies available here.   It seems that the rate of Internet growth is increasing rather than leveling off this year.  They have some good new stats on mobile Internet–now I wish they’d gather IPTV statistics as well.

Main…

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Title: Uncle Sam Beats the Drums of War
Published: January 21, 2007. Guangzhou Daily
Artist: Zhang Bin

orange type (sound of the drumbeat): fight or not, fight or not
thought bubble: Iran!

ChinaTechNews reports that Tencent has partnered with Chinese electronics manufacturer TCL to develop an Internet-enabled,
interactive TV with QQ-branded applications such as IM and games. It’s
called iTQQ. IPTV (Internet Protocol Television) is moving ahead relatively quickly in Japan, South Korea, and especially in Hong Kong. It is already available to some Chinese…

Continue readingQQ’s ipTV: a road to virtual China