Play Tetris, not with the usual blocks, but this time with the divisions of China.
Read more »Play Tetris, not with the usual blocks, but this time with the divisions of China.
Read more »Forklift truck lifting is not an Olympic sport. Equally a forklift cannot compete because... it's a forklift. Lastly, this is not in Beijing but a sleepy backstreet in Dalian, China.
Read more »Inside the 15th century Id Kah Mosque (Kashgar, Xinjiang, China) during salah, one of five compulsory daily prayers recited by Muslims to entreat Allah.
As seen in Tom Carter's CHINA: Portrait of a People, the most comprehensive book of photography on modern China ever published by a single author. Available now from Blacksmith Books.
Read more »Windows only: PPstream is a peer-to-peer (P2P, or if you must, PP) video client that allows for live streaming and sharing of television and movies from China. Catch favorites such as CCTV (中国中央电视台) channels 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, and 17, movies of questionable legality and plenty of Olympics. The PP streams offer a golden opportunity to soak up a deluge of TV from China.
Read more »Well done video of the growing jazz scene in Shanghai featuring local and foreign jazz musicians.
Read more »An innovative approach to education for this Chinese Academy of Fine Arts in Shandong Province where the female school uniforms consists of white shirt, miniskirt and black stockings.
Read more »A fantastic article about Hu Jie, a Chinese documentary filmmaker, and his quest to bring to light the story of Lin Zhao - a defiant woman who was arrested and eventually executed during Mao's Anti-Rightest Campaign of the late 50s, and who used her own blood to continue writing her critical analysis of the times from prison. In Hu's own words - the story shows how far China has come.
Read more »Forbes releases their 25 most powerful Mainland Chinese celebrities list. Perhaps unsurprisingly Yao Ming was top of the list - followed by fellow athlete Liu Xiang in the number 2 spot and action star Jet Li in third. (h/t to Hotpoter)
Read more »Here's an interview I recently did with Neocha SEO Sean Leow. Sean gives us the low-down on the changing Chinese creative landscape as well as talking about his company, Neocha - a social network of creative Chinese who upload everything from pictures to music.
Also in the article are links to Neocha's cool NEXT player, which streams non-stop independent Chinese music free for all to listen to. Let it never be said again that China doesn't have any "good" music.
Read more »"grumpy, hostile, apathetic", Chinese teenagers reach the twentieth century.
Read more »The Shanghaiist's James Creegan spends an afternoon of Chinese net celeb "Red Laowai/红老外" - shopping for Chinese communist memorabilia while talking about the now (in)famous videos that show him singing Chinese nationalist anthems.
Read more »Movie action man Jackie Chan is planning to make a film about last week’s devastating Chinese earthquake, which left almost 60,000 dead and more than five million homeless.
The 7.9-magnitude quake stunned the world and now Chan wants to do everything he can to help the shellshocked survivors - and that involves making a film about their plight.
A Q&A with acclaimed documentarian Tan Siok Siok about her new film Boomtown Beijing - a film that captures the Chinese capital the summer before the Olympics. Be sure to also check out the film's trailer and links.
Read more »Danwei has a first-hand account of Bjork's show in Shanghai, which she closed with a stirring rendition of her song "Declare Independence", at the end of which she clearly spoke "Tibet, Tibet" just before walking off stage.
The article also contains a few related comment "gems" from the Chinese discussion boards.
Read more »A small writeup of the Sexgate for people who missed out on it so far.
Read more »Paramount has become the newest movie studio to make efforts to compete with pirates by offering low-cost, legitimate DVDs in China. New movie titles will go on sale some two months after their theater debut in the US, and for only $3. Paramount will also be joining forces with an unlikely partner in order to combat piracy: competitor Warner Bros., which already has outlets set up in China to sell DVDs.
Read more »Fresh out of college, American Dana Burton arrived in China to bring hip-hop to the Middle Kingdom. Now, eight years later, he’s become the godfather of hip-hop in the most populous country in the world. FP talks to the 32-year-old impresario about his unlikely journey from the streets of Detroit to the nightclubs of Shanghai.
Read more »Some fact about Bruce Lee that you may have known already, plus a few that you surely didn't.
Read more »Interview with the men behind new podcast 'Pissing On The Bamboo Curtain'. A monthly attempt to make sense of, and highlight, the buzzing Beijing underground live alternative music scene.
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