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Upcoming science fiction conference featuring Chinese + Western authors & filmmakers

Posted on by Jason Li

Coming to Hong Kong April 19-20: Melon HK, a science fiction conference featuring writers, filmmakers, publishers and producers from China and the West.

Prominent speakers include a founder editor of io9, a (former) director of Penguin Random House, the first PhD graduate in author of the first PhD dissertation on…

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Stats on the commerce of film in Hong Kong & China

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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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L33tspeak coming to theaters near you

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Danwei reports that the Chinese dubbed version of Garfield 2 has gained popularity by using “netspeak.”

In the movie, Garfield has a twin: “One cat speaks more formally, while the other is dubbed using elements of netspeak (like 顶 and 东东) and lines reminiscent of popular quotes from movies and commercials. The result is a completely inculturated Garfield.”

So…

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trying to understand 恶搞文化 spoofing culture in Virtual China

Posted on 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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Baidu’s “zeitgeist” rankings

Posted on by Lyn Jeffery

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Google has its “zeitgeist” feature which allows you to take the pulse of most popular search terms for the week, month, or even year; Baidu has a similar feature called “list of hottest Chinese searches” 中文搜索风云榜.  Neither are particularly intuitive to me, frankly, since they both divide the search terms into strange categories–e.g., Google’s “spring break” list…

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Chinese vlogging contest: source of the next Asian Backstreet Boys or Bus Uncle?

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Have you been wondering why two of the most well-known online video clips come from greater China (Asian Backstreet Boys may be THE most well known around the world; and while Bus Uncle isn’t, it’s gotten an amazing amount of play for something that’s subtitled)?  Chinese youth are armed with video cellphones, digital video cameras,…

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Song Zude’s 宋祖德 nasty gossip blog: big on Sohu

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While we are busy writing about Xu Jinglei’s blog knocking BoingBoing off the top spot at Technorati, bloghoo.Sohu.com puts Xu well below China’s really popular blogs–at least on Sohu, one of China’s top portals. Nydia Chen, who’s working with us at Virtual China this summer, will be doing a comparison of the top portals’ blogging ranks, so watch…

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top-down regulation and bottom-up sharing

Posted on by Lyn Jeffery

Evan Osnos of the Chicago Tribune has a nice article on the paradox of today’s Chinese media ecology.  You’ve got heavyhanded regulation on one hand, and rampant p2p damn-the-copyright file sharing on the other.  Some things off limits, most things not.  Osnos notes:

…as blogs grow unchecked, they are creating a generation of Chinese who
never read the state-run People’s Daily…

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