Alibaba ads spotted at the Hong Kong International Airport.
I’m back in Hong Kong for a few weeks, so if anyone here is interested in picking my brain (or chatting) over a cup of tea/coffee, drop me a line.
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Previously blogged, China’s Internet Police, and now back with new animated, region-customized imagery. They float on-screen, on the bottom left, to show they’re watching. They also sometimes get in the way of the text (which I don’t quite understand).
Click on them will bring you to the their BBS, like this (please bear with my rough translation) Chongqing Urban Safety Public Annoucements Internet Saftey BBS. There netizens can ask them questions, and, at least in this case, they respond assuming the form of a slick, well-spoken avatar.
Here he is, dispensing advice about stolen QQ numbers and property:
This looks like a very cool undertaking. Collabor8 (C8) is an 8 week project that will run from the 28th of April to the 20th of June, bringing together Chinese and Australian designers in a series of online courses and discussions. It’s being put on by the Omnium Research group at the College of Fine Arts. It’s completely free for participants, who should be studying graphic arts in China or Australia. From the website:
Design students from Australia and China will join forces for eight weeks, with project convenors, teachers and special guests worldwide, to work collaboratively within a fully online learning environment.
The aims of C8 include:
• providing design students in Australia and China with the opportunity to work collaboratively on a graphic design problem thereby emulating new trends toward global team-based networks within industry.
• stimulating new ways for designers to work collaboratively across cultural boundaries.
• the development of environmentally friendly and sustainable graphic design for ceramics, textiles, product and environment design.
Twifan.com is a Chinese mashup that searches posts and users on two of China’s microblogging sites, Jiwai.de and Fanfou. Someone there also had a great idea — a comparison of the top 100 most-followed users of Twitter, Jiwai.de, and Fanfou.
As an independently operated webpage, we do not have any direct connection with FanFou and Jiwai.de, so this ranking might be more objective. We have use the public timeline news from Fanfou and Jiwai.de, put them in a database and analyze them. If your name does not appear on the list you may not have updated your posts recently, so we don’t have your material at the current time. Please make some posts and then check back to find your name on the rankings, at which time you might well see it come up.
Unfortunately, Twifan’s great idea doesn’t seem to be operating at the moment. Davetroy is reported as the most popular Twitter user with 11, 758 followers but in fact he currently lists 12, 761 followers. Wanhuai is the current Fanfou user with the most followers: 1493. And the “top users” on Jiwai.de all stopped posting last fall, or are listed as having no followers at all. Hmmm. Maybe someone at Jiwai didn’t like the comparison.
It WAS a nice idea, however. I’m all in favor of more mashups that bring English language and Chinese language data together in real time.
Presenting Hong Kong’s most famous graffiti artist and typographer…
And it’s true — I do see his work around town, when I am home. Unfortunately, he passed away in July.
See the Chinese Wikipedia entry about him for more details.
Photo taken by Frank Chan. Kudos to bad taste but smell good for reminding me about him.
Though to be fair, someone’s also done this in the US (in San Mateo):
Found at Paul Saffo’s journal.
In the wake of the clamor over Tibet… BBC News has been unblocked.
Image from BBC News:
I wonder if this move has anything with do with the anti-CNN sentiment* floating around the interweb.
*In case you haven’t been reading up: CNN has been blamed for their coverage of the recent incidents in Tibet because they a) cropped photos to suit their story, and b) used photos of Nepalese police arrests for their China stories. See ESWN for more details.
I’m happy to announce that Virtual China has been completely and successfully ported over to the Wordpress blogging platform!
You may need to update your RSS feeds to http://www.virtual-china.org/feed — though I’ve set up a forward in place that should do that automatically. Please let me know if you see anything wrong!
Thanks go to IFTF’s Chris Sumner for his help.
A recent photo montage on Tianya, called Smiles of the Past 50 Years. You won’t be able to link to it without registering at Tianya, so I’ll post some more below the jump.
Early spring1957, Hubei province, Macheng County, Xujia Village, 549 Production Brigade: soldier Yang Zhiyi shows off on the bar.
Spring 1975, Hubei Province, Macheng County, Zhongyi Commune, Wangjiyi Production Brigade: practicing high jumping.
Spring 1976, Jiangsu, Hai’an County, Beiling Commune, Fengda Brigade member. Using the natural elements of the rivers, banks, and ditches in the landscape, the brigade holds rope-climbing and other kinds of activities.
July 1978, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous District, Du’an Yao Autonomous County, Gaoling Commune, 5 Bamboo Production Brigade: foot-race.
January 1960, Heilongjiang Province, Longjiang County, Baishan People’s Commune: In the space of one short month the entire commune got together to build 9 ice rinks where over 4000 people participated in ice sport activities. This is a group heading to the rinks with their home-made ice skates and blades.
Summer of 1958, Liaoning Province, Beipiao County, Under Elms Village, Longtan Farming Commune, taking a break from work and “leap-horsing” in the fields.
Another good source for information on Tibet and other areas in China is the Lonely Planet’s Thorntree Forum, the North-east Asia section. Seems to have regular postings such as this one:
Tuesday morning update from sources in Lhasa.
Things are quietening down significantly. Many streets are now open
again and cars and taxis are out and about…even in the old quarter.
There is still a very heavy military presence but restaurants, teashops
and even the Summit cafe with the good coffee is open. A major clean up
operation is underway.
There is a surprising number of people on the streets including many
Chinese tourists who have surfaced from the west end and are going down
to the old quarter so see what all the fuss was about.
All foreigners have not been kicked out of Lhasa…these reports are
false. There seems to be a number of tourists still in town although a
very small number.
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