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Chinese animation and cartoons

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Lyn Jeffery
on June 8, 2006
in Art, Design, Film, Search and Television
. 3 Comments

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Another site one could spend hours on…searching among the cartoon images on China’s leading search engine, Baidu.  Go here for the search that yielded the image above, Sun Wukong the Monkey King in "Rebellion Against Heaven," this particular image from a book cover. 

Go here for Baidu’s cartoon animation search.  Just below the bulleted links you’ll see a pink bar, and below this the first set of links are to various Chinese cartoons, taken from book covers to film stills.  Below that are European/American cartoon images, and then of course Japanese/Korean cartoon images. The last category is of cartoon/animated characters, everyone from Tintin to Sonic. Have fun!
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trying to find the World Cup live in virtual China

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Lyn Jeffery
on May 31, 2006
in Sports, Television, Video Clips and Virtual China
. 7 Comments

Click_here_2Update 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.

Mysee_2It 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 blue button.  I can’t download it since I have an Apple computer and it’s only available for PCs.  So it’s up to you…but give it a try and let us know if it works! 

[original post, 5/31] As tech-savvy football/soccer fans from around the world know, you can find some sporting events broadcast online via downloadable P2P apps (previously blogged here).  Here’s a first attempt to figure out how this will work for the 2006 World Cup.  Will official Chinese sites show video highlights only?  Will others be watching real-time live feeds broadcast peer to peer? For their part, FIFA and Yahoo are offering free online video highlights
available within the hour following the final whistle of each game
(NOTE: except Asia and Middle East, where a 24-hour delay is in place).  There will clearly be a demand during that 24 delay, and it will clearly be met.

Sohu.com and SMGBB.cn, a subsidiary of Shanghai Media Group, have
partnered to provide the online 2006 FIFA World Cup for tens of
millions of Chinese viewers, if not more. Sohu is also the exclusive online media provider of the Beijing 2008
Olympics (talk about a good place to be), and the 2006 World Cup can be
seen as an early dry-run.

Sohu has its so-called "direct feed"  schedule here.  Probably available here, on Sohu’s 2006 World Cup homepage. Meanwhile, SMGBB.cn has its own World Cup page, where you can clearly see the "Live Channel" screen where streams/highlights might be coming. It requires the latest Internet Explorer upgrade.  SMGBB also has this page which seems even more promising but which also requires you to register.  I’m still trying…

By the way, as a measure of how important the World Cup broadcast is in China, 7 out of 10 Chinese report plans to watch it, and it has even been the site of a major, if bizarre, political protest. During the last 2002 World Cup TV broadcasts in China, the SINOSAT satellite feed was hijacked on and off for ten different stations across China over a period of a week. It sounds like something off of Lost–screens flickering, blurry images of Falun Gong literature appearing…Read more here.

From Sohu’s site, this press release:

http://2006.sohu.com/smgbb [will deliver] real-time video highlights
and tournament photos directly to football fans in China. The channel
will feature exclusive World Cup 2006 content including event
highlights, select clips, behind the scene footage in all the 64
tournaments and comprehensive reports - all readily available online
through rich media formats.

online DIY TV from Beijing expats

Published
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Lyn Jeffery
on April 29, 2006
in Blogs, Television, Translation and Video Clips
. 1 Comment

Danwei

For those who haven’t seen it yet, Danwei TV now has its own website here. Danwei TV is the brainchild of the authors of the excellent Chinese media blog, Danwei, and features smart, well-produced, fast moving video clips.  The clip that’s up now is well worth watching: it’s on Mu Zimei, the famous, sexually outspoken blogger who brought blogs to the Chinese mainstream consciousness just a few years ago.  Jeremy Goldkorn interviews Mu Zimei (real name, Li Li) in her apartment, and I guess it shouldn’t be surprising that she’s very outspoken about her sex life even when she’s not blogging!  Great stuff (though I could do without the snarky (?) shots of Mu Zimei’s house slippers). 

It would really be something if this format caught on so we could also watch clips produced by Chinese DIY reporters–but it might be considered too risky. 

CSDN Live: programmer TV

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Jason Li
on April 23, 2006
in Television
. 1 Comment

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PostShow points us over to CSDN Live’s video section: a programmer’s online television channel. (I assume CSDN stands for Computer Science Developer’s Network and is probably a wordplay on MSDN, the Microsoft Developer Network.)

TinyFool gives it a thumbs up. The current first episode is entitled "Programmers Who Blog" and the next episode is called "What is Social Searching?"

Via PostShow via TinyFool@DoNews.

top-down regulation and bottom-up sharing

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Lyn Jeffery
on April 18, 2006
in Blogs, Film, Television and Virtual China
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Evan Osnos of the Chicago Tribune has a nice article on the paradox of today’s Chinese media ecology.  You’ve got heavyhanded regulation on one hand, and rampant p2p damn-the-copyright file sharing on the other.  Some things off limits, most things not.  Osnos notes:

…as blogs grow unchecked, they are creating a generation of Chinese who
never read the state-run People’s Daily newspaper but routinely use a
file-sharing protocol to download films or television programs that
their government officially rejects. It is a generation raised to
expect a censored world and an uncensored one…

link
(via China Digital Times)

Chinese online sports feeds: a meeting place of sorts

Published
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Lyn Jeffery
on April 2, 2006
in Sports, Television and Virtual China
. 1 Comment

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I wonder how many non-Chinese speaking sports fans around the world are watching Chinese TV broadcasts of sporting events (especially soccer) online?  One way to watch soccer on the Internet:

Some smart Chinese people have worked out how to use P2P to stream a
live TV signal - and the most watched shows are the Chinese coverage of
live Premiership games. It’s regularly mentioned in most football
mailing lists or forums and there are a few websites promoting it. (link)

PPStream is one application for downloading Chinese TV feeds or watching live on your screen.  Learn how to do it here.

A brief Google search for live online sports feeds reveals a bunch of Chinese TV station websites (CCTV-5, Shanghai Media Group’s gsports, Guangdong TV).  Would love to know more about how these work, if anyone you know uses them.