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If you haven’t visited it yet, or recently, you’ve got to see the menu (sorry) at eatingchinese.org, a glorious site that brings together everything to do with chinese food that can be done online, including:

chinese crepes on YouTube–what a great idea to expand upon for all of us living and traveling…

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老动画 offers cartoons from the Chinese person’s childhood (streaming video). There are separate sections for foreign (most Japanese, a few American) works and local works. Incredible resource for anyone who wants a peek at the influences of the new generation.

Via PostShow.

So says a Chinese professor when discussing the educational experiences of Chinese youth in Internet cafes.  A recent controversy surrounding the strict regulation of Internet cafes, played out over the past 6 months in the small town of Fangshan in Shanxi province, reveals the very real concerns of parents, educators, businesspeople, and bureaucrats about what the Internet is for, who should be able to access…

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Stardict is a translation engine that allows you to select multiple dictionary sources at a time, to get different interpretations of the same word. You can choose anything from the Oxford Chinese-English Dictionary to the Soothill-Hodous Dictionary of Chinese Buddhist Terms.

The caveat: You have to pay to select more than five search…

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PERK 破壳 is the duo of You Zao 由早 and Wowo 窝窝, a Shanghai design studio set up in 2004.

Check out their fantastic illustrations and stickers, among other goodies:

(via 早 blog)

EGao (恶搞) + Friendlies: caricatured celebrity heads (I recognize at least three from HK) on the 2008 doll bodies.

More at CaoBin. Via PostShow.

See previous posts about them here and here.

Kudos to 造谣社.

There are lots of sites that aggregate other sites online, whether it be blog aggregators or news aggregators, but this one is worth browsing.  You’ll learn something.  You’ll find something new.

It’s the MCLC Resource Center, "maintained by Kirk A. Denton at the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, The Ohio State University, in…

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Andrew Lih has an excellent post reminding us what’s important about the news that Wikipedia has suddenly, and unevenly, been "unblocked" in China: 

It’s important to know there is no monolithically operating Great Firewall of China, even though it is a cute and useful moniker.

The “GFW system” depends on a distributed system of…

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Jason dubbed him the Chinese Star Wars Kid due to his ubiquity on the PhotoShop spoofing scene in China, but I’m glad to see that the child wasn’t scarred in the way that the original Star Wars Kid was.  Indeed, he’s set up his own website.  Reader Fergus points us to “Little Fatty…

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