A group blog about Chinese tech, media and design
Despite dramatic measures taken to stem the tide, the coronavirus is still spreading across China and the rest of the world. Confined to their homes, independent cartoonists in China continue expressing their views around the epidemic through their works. Some creators have…
Continue readingAs The Coronavirus Rages On, Cartoonists Lash Out With Irony, Quiet And Candor
Internet memes about social issues have a spotty history on China’s internet, where netizens have had to evade, obfuscate and mask their posts in an evolving game of censorship cat…
Continue readingAcceptable Protest: The 2019 workplace meme that’s thriving on China’s internet
A few years ago, I observed a curious addition to the emoji set on Sina Weibo: a Grass Mud Horse. It was a little confusing to…
Continue readingHas the Grass Mud Horse been defanged?
Much has been stated about Xiaomi as the rising star in China that’s making premium-but-affordable phones with its own UI for Android. But it seems like they’re also a formidable force on social media.
The tweets below come from their official account:
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Continue readingPhone maker Xiaomi’s incredibly charismatic (and trilingual) Twitter account
From the Atlantic, In Hong Kong, a Sanctuary for Banned Books:
Later that year we began to get mainland visitors from cities like Beijing and Tianjin who were traveling on their own. Our sign said “People’s Commune” in Chinese, and our logo was Mao Zedong’s face, so maybe that caught their eye. Sometimes, customers would ask…
Continue readingHow a bookstore evolved into becoming a banned books center in Hong Kong
Editor’s note: Below are excerpts from Tricia’s article on Makeshift, Pleasure Hacking:
Lao Bing is doing what most males at the Internet cafe are doing, have done, or will be doing later on that night—searching for porn. Users across the world are drawn to this…
Continue readingHacking for Pleasure, not Politics
Editor’s note: This is an op-ed that our very own Tricia Wang wrote, which also appeared on Al Jazeera.
In the last week, thousands of people have signed a petition on Whitehouse.gov titled, “People who…
Continue readingThe myopia of excluding censors: A self-defeating White House petition
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My talk at the Personal Democracy Forum at NYU’s Kimmel Center
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My talk at ROFLCon III at MIT
Political memes have been on my mind as of late. It started with ROFLCon at MIT and moved on to more discussions, Skype chats and journal…
Continue readingIn Defense of Memes Defending Themselves