shanzhai

www.marc.cn — Marc van der Chijs, Shanghai expat best known as being co-founder of Tudou, received quite the surprise a short time ago when his wife discovered a very familiar little girl on the packaging of a Halloween costume in Carrefour.

www.engadget.com — When you've gone and built yourself an imitation MacBook Pro, a Magic Mouse-equipped pseudo-iMac, and an upcoming iPad-esque tablet, there's little reason left to be shy with your website. That must be the thinking behind the design of Dragonfly's web portal, which seems to have taken plenty of inspiration from Apple's home on the internet.

www.chinahush.com — Recently, a shanzhai (fake) ATM appeared on the street of Xuanwu district, Beijing. Customers who used this “ATM” soon found that all their money in the bank account disappeared without a trace. Sina Reporter was told by the Beijing Police that the suspect Huang who set up the fake ATM was already arrested on the charge of credit card fraud. This is the first fake ATM case ever cracked in Beijing.

www.chinatravel.net — We've seen knock off Levis, Ipads, Marlboros and even Ferraris on Shanghai streets, but would you believe they would use a Shanzhai'd song to sing China's pride to the world?

www.chinahush.com — A Shanzhai version of Google.com has just been created and launched in China, introducing www.goojje.com. It is not a joke, this website is to compete with the world’s number one search engine, it is also said to be a gesture to press Google to stay in China. The appearance of the website is almost identical to Google.com. “Google” is turned into Goojje, and in Chinese, 谷歌 became 谷姐.