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MaryAnn O’Donnell continues her clear-eyed thinking about the land and people of Shenzhen and Guangdong province, at her blog Shenzhen Fieldnotes.

If you want to know how Chinese addresses work and how to parse China’s various administrative naming practices–if you want to know more about the kinds of places that drive the southern China manufacturing miracle–read her post “emplacements…

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Scans of a pamphlet dated 1965, titled 怎样打飞机 (“How to Shoot an Airplane”).

Link to original post on 白板报, with scans of instruction manual. Via PostShow.

Link. It’s a great collection.  Most of the photos speak for themselves, but a few riff on Chinese political or religious images, or college student experiences such as mandatory military camp (see third photo below).

The IT news site cnbeta has this clip on it today, from China Daily: “Purifying National Culture: Iran Shuts Down Popular Websites”. The Guardian reports on the story here: Iranian government has blocked access to a wide range of sites, from the New York Times to Amazon, Youtube to Wikipedia and the BBC’s Farsi service.  The China Daily…

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From a strip entitled 豌豆笑傳 (The Peaboy Chronicles).

As always, translations in maroon:

Link to original strip on Sina, link to comic’s website.

What are Chinese video viewers watching?  “Her First Time”
她第一次做鸡 can currently be found on Youtube-esque sites across Virtual China.  Since being posted on Nov. 12 it’s been viewed over 444,444 times on Mofile, one of the top sites, for instance. 

It opens with a young couple and a voice-over in a high-pitched…

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Lyn pointed me to a BusinessWeek interview of Anshe Chung. (She’s based in Germany.) Here’s an excerpt I found particularly interesting:

“What do you do on a typical day?
I usually get up very early in morning, then get in touch with the sales team to finish transactions they prepared. After this is done and information…

Continue readingA Day in the Life of a Second Life Millinonaire & MORE!

ESWN links to the Red Herring’s article on “Second Life’s First Millionaire.” Bullet-point summary:

• Anshe Chung has declared herself a “virtual millionaire,” which I assume means she’s made a million US dollars on Second Life.
• Anshe Chung, real name Ailin Graef runs Anshe Chung Studios with her husband.
• Anshe…

Continue readingSecond Life’s First Millionaire based in Wuhan?

大众点评网 (“The Masses Rates Web”) allows viewers to vote on their favorite restaurants.

For example, pictured above is Hong Kong’s 许留山. It got 25 points for its food, 12 for environment, 15 for service and is priced at ￥32. You can bookmark requests, send them to friends, or rate them. And of course, you can add…

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Drawing Chinese surnames as “totems.”

Via PostShow, original post on 18摸 here.