Google’s new digs in Beijing

September 11, 2006 by Lyn Jeffery

Want to know what Google looks like in China? The company moved into their own building in the Qinghua Science Park in northwest Beijing last week, as documented on Flickr by Hong Bo, or Keso, founder and editor of China’s wellknown IT community Donews; and by blogger and cultural commentator Flypig. The photos kind of…

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Chinese-language advertising search engine

August 22, 2006 by Jason Li

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.
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Example 2: Hong Kong print ad.

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Go now to the …

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The Americanization of Cyworld Avatars?

August 19, 2006 by Jason Li

Ladies and gentlemen,

On your left, China. And on your right, USA. They are the default male avatars from Cyworld China and Cyworld US respectively.

(The original Cyworld is one of South Korean’s most popular portals/social networks; they now have branches in China, Japan, Taiwan and America.)

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I assume the Chinese avatar…

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Belated Sunday Strip: 西米小屋

August 15, 2006 by Jason Li

A selection from a children’s illustrator’s blog: 西米小屋, which has comic blog posts.

As always, translations in maroon.

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Via PostShow.

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trying to understand 恶搞文化 spoofing culture in Virtual China

July 27, 2006 by Lyn Jeffery

Traveling in China brings me into closer contact with the English-language edition of China Daily, which published an interesting opinion piece last week titled “Parody Can Help People Ease Work Pressure”. It describes the emerging “spoofing culture” 恶搞文化 of contemporary Chinese Internet creativity. “Egao” 恶搞 is a neologism that the Chinese media is spending some time trying to dissect and…

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Featured Artist: choc_orange

July 23, 2006 by Jason Li

Obviously, I like this guy alot.

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See his blog!

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Spiderman Saves The Day!

July 19, 2006 by Jason Li

Reporting from Beijing. A CNC street ad, featuring their tech support:

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Shanda’s MMORPG and casual games

July 9, 2006 by Lyn Jeffery

China’s massive gaming company, Shanda Interactive Entertainment, gives a synopsis of all of its MMORPGs and casual games, with screenshots–and all in English. Their site provides a flavor of what Chinese gamers like. Shanda has done best commercially with games like Legend of Mir2, imported from South Korea, and its in-house Mir game, …

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Shirts for Sale!

June 29, 2006 by Jason Li

We’ve blogged about this set of designs before, but who knew they were going to make them into shirts?

For purchase details (168RMB), see Choc_Orange’s webpage.

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MSN Spaces + Google = BaiduSpace 百度空间

June 27, 2006 by Lyn Jeffery

Imagine ~~MySpace pages~~ MSN Spaces with the search functionality of Google and all its features, and you’ll see what Baidu is trying to create: BaiduSpace 百度空间, now in beta in China. Blogger Xiong Jiezeng has an analysis (in Chinese) of what works and what doesn’t, which should be of great help to the feature’s developers.

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Tag: design

Google’s new digs in Beijing

Chinese-language advertising search engine

The Americanization of Cyworld Avatars?

Belated Sunday Strip: 西米小屋

trying to understand 恶搞文化 spoofing culture in Virtual China

Featured Artist: choc_orange

Spiderman Saves The Day!

Shanda’s MMORPG and casual games

Shirts for Sale!

MSN Spaces + Google = BaiduSpace 百度空间