A group blog about Chinese tech, media and design
This early excerpt from Open All the Buddha Boxes chronicles the rise of two seminal Beijing bands, Hang On The Box and Chui Wan, as they carve out a space for themselves in and outside of China. We follow members of the two bands as they develop their sounds, identities and…
Continue readingAn illustrated love letter to the Beijing underground music scene
Editor’s note: Below is a selection of our favorite Instagram posts that Christina published during her 2016 trip to Beijing, Chengdu & Shanghai to research technology, youth culture and trends.
There are VR kiosks in almost every mid-high end mall I’ve been into in Beijing and Shanghai, as well…
Continue readingVR malls, mobile payments and tuhao-themed parties (#cxinchina 2016 edition)
China’s major cities are seeing fierce competition for drivers to join ridehailing platforms like Uber and China’s homegrown leader, Didi Kuadi. I just spent a few weeks in China using the “People’s Uber” service, the cheapest Uber service that uses private cars, and interviewed 10-12 Uber…
Continue readingUber in China: A Driver’s View
From a Quartz article by Gwynn Guilford:
IBM plans to improve the quality of data by installing its latest generation of optical sensors, incorporating meteorological satellite data and running that through its artificial-intelligence computing system (a.k.a. Watson, that computer that trounced humans on Jeopardy). The visual maps it generates will identify the source and dispersal pattern…
Continue readingIBM teams up with the Beijing government to tackle its pollution problem
From the Atlantic blog, by Dan Chinoy:
This suburban expansion has taken place so quickly that in some places, it has created what are known in Chinese as 城中村 or chengzhongcun, which translates roughly to village-in-a-city: older mud and brick houses and abandoned fields surrounded by brand new apartment complexes. Often,…
Continue readingVillage-in-a-city, 城中村