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VIDEO: A news report from the scene of the now infamous Shijingshan Amusement Park, where an amazing change had taken place. After foreign media coverage of the amusement park’s blantant unauthorized use of Disney characters, the park was taking action.

Despite the striking similarities to foreign characters, Yin insisted the Beijing park’s are all locally designed.

“Take our Cinderella as an example. The face of Disney’s Cinderella face is European, but ours is a Chinese. She looks like a young Chinese country girl,” he said.

China’s richest man has disappeared. Chinese media say Huang Guangyu is under police investigation for alleged share trading violations. His company says they have not heard from the tycoon in days.

Here is a definitive list of the top ten knock offs 'made in China' and bought/sold in China.

The Magic Gourd, a story about a boy who is granted wishes by a ... magic gourd, will be released this summer. The movie represents the first in a series of Chinese-language releases from Disney and China's state-owned China Film Group.

The story makes a bold and rather misleading statement: "Disney has moved away from its usual strategy of promoting its mainstay stories and characters in China, because mainland audiences are somewhat unfamiliar with Mickey Mouse, Minnie and Donald Duck."

Wang Qishan, Vice Premier of the State Council, wrote an editorial for the WSJ entitled, “No More Chinese Knock-Offs”. It followed pretty closely after the State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO) released its 5 year IPR protection plan. This is really big talk. Is it actually going to happen?

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.

just another video clip to amuse

Well, Sharon Stone, looking the part of a Prozac popper, has done her part in showing the world that you don't have to be smart to be popular. As the headline states - she essentially calls the death of 70,000+ Chinese "karma" for how China has treated Tibet.

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Meg over at Violet Eclipse gives us this recent photo-post that shows the eerie side of the off-season in Chinese amusement parks. Funny stuff.