A group blog about Chinese tech, media and design
Full disclosure: I worked on the design for this project.
Online petition platforms have taken off in the English speaking world, but what about a Chinese petition platform? In the US and UK, the government both run official petition platforms (remember the Death Star petition to the White House?) and there are a whole…
Continue readingHong Kong’s First Online Petitions Platform
Spurred by this article on MOOCs taken hold in Hong Kong, I decided to do a survey on MOOC adoption by Chinese institutions. I did not, as you can see, survey any Chinese MOOC platforms (are there any?), so it’s a bit of a biased selection.
From the Atlantic, In Hong Kong, a Sanctuary for Banned Books:
Later that year we began to get mainland visitors from cities like Beijing and Tianjin who were traveling on their own. Our sign said “People’s Commune” in Chinese, and our logo was Mao Zedong’s face, so maybe that caught their eye. Sometimes, customers would ask…
Continue readingHow a bookstore evolved into becoming a banned books center in Hong Kong
According to this report from Apple Daily HK, there’s a real-life troll that’s been going around on the subway in Hong Kong defacing various strangers’ luxury handbags with a ball point pen.
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…
Continue readingStats on the commerce of film in Hong Kong & China
Like pretty much anyone else paying attention to the story, I was stunned to see the images of protests in Hong Kong, with people of all ages donning black to rail against Beijing’s plan to enact national education. Hong Kongers deemed it brainwashing, a paternalistic move from Beijing to inculcate the special territory into its ways. The sheer scale of…
Continue readingHong Kong Citizens’ Online, Memetic Protest
The following are the excerpts of an informal email conversation I had with Marco Sparmberg, a trans-media filmmaker & content developer based in Hong Kong.
Q: What brought you to Hong Kong?
A: I grew up with the 80s and 90s HK films running at the midnight slots of German…
Continue readingInterview with Marco Sparmberg, Hong Kong-based trans-media filmmaker