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Another site one could spend hours on…searching among the cartoon images on China’s leading search engine, Baidu. Go here for the search that yielded the image above, Sun Wukong the Monkey King in “Rebellion Against Heaven,” this particular image from a book cover.
Go here for Baidu’s cartoon animation search. Just below the bulleted links you’ll…
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Get a sense of the thriving art scene in Lijiang, Yunnan Province (like Dali, Lijiang is a home-away-from-home for China’s elite artists, from film-makers and painters to sculptors and writers).
Lijiang Studio provides living space, working space, and facilitation
for international, Chinese, and local artists in two locations: one
rural location,…
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In the spirit of May Day travels, a dedicated Netease poster has a treasure trove for railroad architecture enthusiasts: dozens of Chinese stations. The one above is from Kunming, the capital of southwestern Yunnan province. One of my favorites.
The post has been viewed over 670,000 times since May 1, and has over 1600 comments.
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Check out the works on Chinese 华语 CGFeel, a BBS forum for digital art that’s apparently modeled on CGTalk, the forum of the Computer Graphics Society. CGFeel has 4058 members and you just have to poke around and see what you can find. Aside from the section titled “Original Works,”…
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Via ChinaVisual.
You may have seen the article in the Wall Street Journal on 2/28/06, describing the Chinese collective buying website 51tuangou.com. 51tuangou.com is one of a new kind of Chinese online experience–finding people in your local area who want to buy the same (usually big ticket) item that you do, and approaching the merchants as a group in order to…
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