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From the blog of mainland Chinese blogger Flypig, this September 1 post and its comments describe some of the context around an instance of downloading pirated music — in this case, the anticipated “Still Fantasy” 《依然范特西》from Jay Chou 周杰伦, one of Asia’s most popular singers. The album was released three days earlier than scheduled after…
Continue readingsupporting Jay Chou: fans and leaks
Check out one of the most popular musicians in northwestern China’s Xinjiang province: Murat Muhtar. Thanks to Michael Manning on his blog The Opposite End of China, who has digitized and uploaded two of Muhtar’s videos. One selection is a typical music video of two beautiful people dancing together against…
Continue readingUighur dance party video
Headline reads:
“SHUANG-A!
The most shuang* video recomendations every day.
Ensuring that after a hard day’s work, you will still have a beautiful smile.”
* shuang = happy, cheerful; refreshing
And today’s recommendation, a MTV trailer from the newly acclaimed (Mainland) Chinese film, 疯狂的石头!
Link to ShuangA.…
Our Taiwanese contributor Nydia Chen points out that the famous “Asian Backstreet Boys,” aka the “Backdorm Boys” 后舍男生, have a lot going on these days. They’ve become celebrities in China with many videos beyond the original “As Long As I Love You.”
They have their own blog, with all of their…
Continue readingAsian Backdorm Boys 后舍男生 update
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,…
Continue readingChinese vlogging contest: source of the next Asian Backstreet Boys or Bus Uncle?
If you haven’t seen them yet, do check out the two-part video documentary, “Broadband for Barefoot Bankers: Zuoquan County” on YouTube, from the European Commission and PlaNetFinance’s “Broadband for Barefoot Bankers” program. The videos document a process undertaken with poor farming families in Shanxi province wherein already existing local microfinance loan officers are set up with a computer/Internet system to…
Continue readingmicrofinance + computers and internet for Chinese farmers
Update 6/11: try this. Go to SMGBB’s World Cup Live site and click on the yellow button that looks like this, which is found in the middle of the Live Channel screen.
It will provide you with a link to the software that will allow you to see the games live, which is provided by Mysee. Click on the…
Continue readingtrying to find the World Cup live in virtual China
China Web2.0 Review points to recent statistics (originally translated by cwr, edited by me) from Jack Gu’s blog (Gu Shaofeng), founder of Chinese podcast aggregator Podlook. Gu notes that, despite the numbers below, he and other Chinese experts are seeing a plateau in terms of quality of content and number of listeners. “On…
Continue readingChina’s podcasting: a bite of current stats
Another excellent Pacific Epoch interview, this one with Buddy Ye, the co-founder and CEO of Wangyou Media, a company that provides a platform for users to share audio, video, and photo content, with mobile services as well. They call themselves a cross between Myspace and Youtube, and you can see elements of both in the interface. The…
Continue readingChinese Youtube/Myspace wanna-be, plus mainstream media