An exploration of virtual experiences and environments in and about China.
鲍昆 Bao Kun is (according to billsdue) a renowned photographer in China, who joined the Chinese Photography Association in 1983 and also taught at the University of Science & Technology Beijing.
His photoblog has some great work, including a post (full of photos) about New Cities New Citizens:
Via billsdue.
Fun finding of the day — a recipe-diagram for cooking chicken with beer! (Rough translations given in maroon.)
Go to original post (currently down) or photo on Yupoo.
Via Global Voices Online’s Memedia translation (an old issue). Thank you tian for fixing my translation.
The title says it all. It’s a bit slow for my taste and doesn’t give me the traditional variants that I want, but check it out — it’s pretty handy and may be right for you.
Link: Firefox add-on link
Link: Author’s homepage
Happy Chinese New Year!
P.S. I really like this set of characters from 张小盒 (Boxy Zhang), but…
They do resemble these guys from Japan alot…
From the Environmental News Network:
"…the world’s largest cow-dung methane power plant started operation on January 21 in China’s Inner Mongolia region. With an investment of 45 million RMB (roughly $US5.7 million) from the country’s largest milk producer, Mengniu Dairy, the plant is able to supply 10 million kilowatt-hours of electricity to the national power
grid."
The article goes on to say that methane from cows is actually a significant contributor to greenhouse gas emissions, and:
"The practice of methane capture has
caught the attention of international carbon traders. Under the Kyoto Protocol, the international agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, companies can trade so-called “carbon credits” to help them meet their allowances of greenhouse gas emissions. China has become a major destination for European carbon buyers due to its low prices for the credits. The country also benefits from the financial resources and technologies transferred as a result of those trades."
Apple has disclosed that their first store in China will be in Beijing, scheduled to open in time for the 2008 Olympics.
It will be located on the to-be-renovated Qianmen Street, which, according to TUAW, will be "the city’s second pedestrian-only shopping street and it’s reported
that Apple will be forgoing it’s well-established storefront in favor
of a design that will blend with the Chinese architecture surrounding
it."
Photo of the planned look for Qianmen Street:
Source: The Unofficial Apple Weblog. Photo from Beijing2008 website.
From a post on billdsue:
"According to this article, UUpark intends to make Leon the next Hello Kitty, and Sequoia and SIG invested $1.5M into the company in late 2006."
And so I went to check out some clips (not bad, not great) and then found some comic diaries, like this one (translations in maroon):
Cute. See more.
Kaiser Kuo has posted an online version of his recent column for local magazine That’s Beijing. The article is called: Provincial Poetry and delineates the various regional stereotypes within China in poetry.
Excerpts about the two regions most frequently cited:
"The Shanghainese are philistines, and this they’ll gladly own:
Commercial instincts permeate them to the very bone.
Their pride in Shanghai’s petit bourgeois ethos is immense
But what they lack in culture, they make up in common sense."
"Beiingers love to gab, and though they’re lazy and they’re slow,
There’s nothing about politics that they aren’t apt to know.
They may complain a lot about the traffic and the air
But scratch beneath the cynicism and you’ll find they care."
Read about the rest of China in the full post: Provincial Poetry.
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