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Ending today. Hong Kong’s annual art fair featuring works from galleries from all over (with Asian galleries dominating). Well attended by locals passing by, visitors flying in and from early reports, also by prominent buyers and sellers.
Above: A local favorite that blends traditional Chinese landscape painting with modern Hong Kong skyscrapers. I wonder if people unfamiliar with…
The story goes that Wang Momo (王卯卯), an undergraduate at the Communication University of China, was doodling on her blog one day and came up with a peculiar yet distinct rabbit-like creature. Built with Snoopy proportions, it also had no mouth and only had slits for eyes. Its name was Tuzki (兔斯基). Three months later, Wang made an animated emoticon of it.…
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.
From a strip entitled 悠嘻猴 (Laid Back Ape).
As always, translations in maroon:
Link to original comic on Sina, link to creator website.
Title: The first locomotive that runs through the heart of Peking. A train station opens in Chienmên on November 1, 1901. From “Photographic Journal,” a collection of photographs taken in cities including Beijing and
Shanghai by Alfons von Mumm. Mumm left in Genova July 1900, and arrived
in Beijing in October of the…
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The Lonyin Review is a Hong Kong based magazine about Chinese-language advertising. They’ve opened up a search engine dedicated to Chinese-language advertising content that’s appeared in their magazines.
Example 1: hilarious Nike television commercial.
Example 2: Hong Kong print ad.
Go now to the …
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From a strip entitled 啊吉先生 (Mr. Lucky).
As always, translations in maroon:
Link to original strip on Sina.
From a strip entitled 混沌村 (HunDunCun = primitive village).
As always, translations in maroon:
Link to original comic on sina.
Why is it that one of China’s “classic” games of the past 4 years is still virtually invisible on the English language web? I Googled it, I Google Blog searched it, I tried to Technorati it but couldn’t get through on this particular Chinese server, I Google News’d it, I Terra Nova’d it, I Pacific Epoch’d it (and I Donews’d it for…
Continue readingMoli Baobei/Crossgate 魔力宝贝 BBS