Featured illustration + fiction

September 4, 2012 by Jason Li

A short story called Raising Whales by Xiang Zuotie. Excerpt clipped from a post on Prospect Magazine.

At dusk one evening, as cooking smoke started rising from the roofs of the houses, the head of our village came back from market with baby whales for everybody. We were going to develop the local whale-farming industry,…

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Reinvigorating an old art form: Shadow puppets

February 14, 2012 by Jason Li

Neocha is currently profiling the illustration & graphic design work of a Xiamen-based artist, Lin Xiaozuo. Featured: an interesting play on traditional Chinese shadow puppets.

First though, the original art form looks like this (photo source):

And Lin’s work:

For more samples, head over to NeochaEDGE…

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Illustrated introduction to the four tones of Mandarin Chinese

July 24, 2011 by Jason Li

(Disclaimer: This is a repost of a blog post I wrote at my day job, which I think 88 Bar readers will also find interesting. Apologies for the plug.)

We’ve started playing with the newly released ShowMe app, which lets you create Khan Academy-style video tutorials. So far it’s been pretty great. Below, we’ve included the first…

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Featured illustration + fiction

Reinvigorating an old art form: Shadow puppets

Illustrated introduction to the four tones of Mandarin Chinese