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If you know what Threadless is, think of this as a China version without the designer flair.

If you don’t, MyTshirt.cn is a website to submit, share, purchase T-shirt designs.

(The above design is by ibuzzo, and is a combination of two Chinese characters. You can purchase it here. Or you…

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A small shack, primitively built, on the corner of a road in Shanghai, surrounded by high-rise development. Owned by a strong old woman, patronized by night-time drivers.

update: ding zi hu (lit. “nail house”): person or household who refuses to move and bargains for unreasonably high compensation when the land is requisitioned for a construction project.

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语录中国, Quotable China (or to be precise,Recording the Quotes of China), is a website that collects interesting quotes by various peoples, including 鲁迅 LuXun, keso, and 老白 (random old guy). Here’s what 老白 (random old guy) had to say about GFW:

“‘The future is unknown.’ Technorati’s death, Google’s ‘continuous resets’, all reveal to me the confidence of…

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Spring Festival is a month away, but apparently the whole issue of getting home for the festival is a big one for QQ readers–and lots of students are traveling home soon.  QQ BBS editors put out a request about a week ago asking people to send in their Spring Festival travel (Chunyun) 春运 stories from now until 1/25–and…

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A Molive/Moobol story (which, incidentally, was in the top 3 photo-sharing sites in 2006 in China–I prefer it to Tudou and Yoqoo, actually).  Even as poor people (mostly from the countryside) are discriminated against in the cities, as the gap between rich and poor widens to an extent not seen since before the Chinese Communist Party took power in 1949, there is a…

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Tuangou teambuying website China NetCrowd 中国网众 has a special “NetCrowd Oscars” page, which allows users to vote (of course…everything does today, doesn’t it?) on the best tuangou experiences of 2006, that were organized by NetCrowd. If you are interested in getting a sense of what a tuangou …

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Looks like the big news is that Sohu is no longer in the top 3 portals in China, but has been knocked out by Tencent.  55% of Chinese Internet users used Sina last year; 51% hit Netease; 48% used Tencent, according to the Internet Guide 2007 China Internet Survey Report (in Chinese), put out by the Data Center of the Chinese Internet…

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Check out Baidu Zhidao/Baidu Knows Knowledge’s 2006 top ten questions list.  They’ve divided it into four different kinds of questions and provided access to the most commonly asked questions as well as their answers.  If you care to browse in Chinese, all the answers are rated by readers and commented upon.  Here is a very rough translation of the top…

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Big news from the Chinese hardware developer community: the release of several hundred Loongson boxes, Fulong mini-PCs produced by the Chinese company Lemote Technology Corporation, which are powered by the Chinese-developed Loongson 2E processor.  The Loongson boxes are now in the hands of several hundred die-hard programmers in Guiyang, Chengdu, Shanghai, and other big cities, according to an article…

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Wikipedia introduces, “Huang Shan (黄山; literally Yellow Mountain) is a mountain range in southern Anhui province in eastern China. The area is very famous for its scenic beauty…”

First up, on the outskirts of the 古村 （Old/Ancient Village)，宏村 (HongCun)：

Inside: computers and desks and kids. The usual.

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