The First Wankathon in China: First Masturbation Contest for World’s Aid Day in China

January 11, 2013 by Tricia Wang

Walkathons are boring, wankathons are not. Who wants to watch people walk when you can watch people masturbate? The first Masturbation Contest for World’s Aid Day took place in Shenzhen. The Shanghaiist has a set of wonderful pictures of men without pants, floppy dildos, dolls with orfices to stick fingers or penises into, and personal cum buckets. (Shanghaiist’s removed the…

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Stats on the commerce of film in Hong Kong & China

November 14, 2012 by Jason Li

Haexagon Concepts has just released their industry report on the film industries in Hong Kong & China. It’s a snappy, well-researched report, and tackles subjects ranging from advertising methods to the emergence of transmedia storytelling in these two regions.

An excerpt about Hong Kong’s advertising quagmire:

“A major problem in HongKong is that there aren’t…

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Decoding the ‘voice of China’ through media reports

September 5, 2012 by Graham Webster

As U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton wraps up meetings today in Beijing, it’s hard to say how her most recent Asia-Pacific trip has gone. And that’s partly because interpreting media reports from the Chinese side is more art than science.

When Clinton was in the Cook Islands, Voice of America captured media consensus with the headline “U.S. And China Soften…

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88 Bar Receives Runner Up in Danwei’s Model Worker Award 2012!

July 25, 2012 by Tricia Wang

Blogs on China have come and gone over the last decade. Then twitter came and everyone stopped blogging in 2006. Long form analysis was shrunken to 140 characters. But then something magical happened, a resurgence of blogs on China bursted onto the internet over the last few years!

One of the longest standing and most important blogs, Danwei, is…

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Book Review

Book review: Understanding China through Comics (Vol 2)

June 4, 2012 by Jason Li

This is a follow up of our review of Volume 1.

Understanding China through Comics, Volume 2 picks up where its predecessor left of – on a hyperspeed journey through Chinese history starting with the Three Kingdoms era. As before, Liu employs illustrations and diagrams to explain events and lighten the…

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China Meme Report

Real Name Registration One Month Later

April 23, 2012 by An Xiao Mina

Translation: (left) Real name registration (right) Weibo

Real name registration has come and gone. The article Tricia and I penned for Wired noted some of the dangers behind the requirements to register one’s real name (it’s quite rigorous – you have to include your identification card):

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Is China a Telecom Bridge to North Korea?

January 9, 2012 by An Xiao Mina

Image courtesy Scallop Holden on a Creative Commons License.

With the world’s eyes on North Korea right now, it’s important to remember the role of China in this story. As the North’s primary ally, China will be playing a critical role in the coming months and years as the leadership transition plays out.

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Gossip from the trenches of China’s telecommunications market: changes to keep an eye on in 2012

December 20, 2011 by Tricia Wang

China telecommunications expert, Marc Laperrouza, tips us off to an unconfirmed bit a of juicy news about the Chinese telecommunication market: China Telecom is being investigated for anti-monopoly infringement! You don’t hear of state-owned enterprises the stature of China Telecom being investigated for monopoly infringement very often so this is pretty big news. Mark explains the charges:

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Angry Birds the next big cartoon character in China?

October 31, 2011 by Jason Li

In my recent trips to China, I’ve spotted various instances of Angry Birds merch and kids from all over playing the game on their PCs. According to their CEO, they’ve been downloaded (through official channels) 50 million times in China already. It seems that the phenomenon has not gone unnoticed at the head office. From TNW…

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The death of citizen journalism in China?

October 17, 2011 by Jason Li

Roland Soong from ESWN sums up a trend that I’ve also observed over the past few years:

Over the past few months, I have been seen so many major breaking stories turn out to be rumor-fueled. The small number of stories that I have written about were largely about rumors. So I have two reactions on this debate.

My first…

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