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Photo essay: China Residencies’ 2019 cross-country tour of arts spaces

Posted on by Jason Li
Montage of our photos of people and art in China

Ahead of its sixth Crystal Ruth Bell Residency program (apply now – it’s fully funded!), the team at China Residencies took a cross-country tour around China to visit art and culture spaces new and old. Below we’re featuring photo highlights from this strip, which have been culled (with permission) from their lovely Instagram account.…

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Frank’s photo nerd LAN party

Posted on by Lyn Jeffery

I don’t know about “emerging trend in an emerging market,” but I can’t resist linking to Microsoft Research Asia’s Frank Yu’s must-read post about what took place in a Beijing park on a recent sunny afternoon. Imagine a bunch of guys with fancy cameras going wild taking photos of girls they’ve invited to model for them…now imagine several of these groups together.  Now…

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history, future, cultural archaeology of Shenzhen in a blog

Posted on by Lyn Jeffery

Just spent time in Shenzhen with my old friend Maryann O’Donnell.  If you are interested in the development of Shenzhen Special Economic Zone (SEZ) in particular, or more broadly in how to read historical, political, economic and social movements in a rapidly changing urban landscape, you will want to be reading her blog, Shenzhen Fieldnotes. You can learn more about her other…

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Bilis on the BBS

Posted on by Lyn Jeffery

Tropical Storm Bilis hit southern China over the weekend, killing over 200 people, flooding major
cities, sweeping away houses and cutting railways, power and water supplies. The BBS forums are full of first person reports and comments on the effects of the storm, as well as evaluations of offical responses.  You can clearly see how the BBS is acting as a space…

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a world of Chinese photoblogs

Posted on by Lyn Jeffery

It’s not surprising that one of the easiest and most interesting ways for most non-Chinese speaking people to experience Virtual China is through images.  We’ve talked about ziboy, one of the oldest and best known Chinese photoblogs, here before.  Today I came across Photoblog China, an aggregator site with links to over 800 photoblogs.  They are all searchable (in…

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different design traditions: 1957 contraceptive billboards

Posted on by Lyn Jeffery

Have been checking out the QQ.com BBS.  QQ.com is currently the 7th most popular site in the world, according to Alexa.com.

Yesterday someone posted two extraordinary photos of billboard ads for contraception from 1957. This would have just 8 years after the founding of the PRC. From these we get a reminder that the U.S.…

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Henan student riots

Posted on by Lyn Jeffery

ESWN has translations and photos from BBS posts about student riots (and yes, they really were riots) at Shengda Economics, Trade and Management College of Zhengzhou University in Henan last week. As ESWN notes, this is another clear case of mainstream media getting their reports directly from BBS posts. It also highlights the anger that many college and university students are feeling today…

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