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With her permission, we decided it would be fun to give a roundup of Tricia’s ethnographic adventures during the spring & summer of this year.
Hanging out at a bar, the ever evolving third space, “After a rock band performed, the stage became a tattoo station.”
Talking to a female massage worker in Changsha…
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The confluence of girls and blogs, a kind of Chinese Idol/blogger beauty pageant, took place April 13- May 13th in Beijing. Sponsored by China’s largest blogsite, Bokee 博客网, the girls were judged on number of votes they received online, the quality (creativity, originality) of their blog posts, blog traffic and blog comments. Sounds reasonable. The top 20…
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Today on the Netease BBS: The 8th annual Shanghai Spring Real Estate Market, held last week at the Shanghai Exhibition Center, one-upped the booth babes of other trade shows with a real estate girl. As the BBS poster says (rough translation):
This is something that hasn’t been seen before in real…
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MM/mm stands for meimei (妹妹, literally, “little sister”) stands for girls, chicks, hotties, or whatever term you choose. Mainstream sites in virtual China are rife with sexualized pictures and videos of women. It would be like having Playboy cover shots and links to porn videos on AOL, MSN, or Yahoo.
The photo above comes from the #4 most…
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