January 2012
allAfrica.com: Zambia: Chinese Underage Sex Scandal Sparks Emotive Debate
Zambia is home to more than 80,000 Chinese of an estimated population of 925,000 Chinese now living and working in Africa, the majority of whom are men working in various jobs in urban and rural areas.
Soft Film 軟性電影
Exploring the ephemeral past of Chinese entertainment from Hong Kong, the U.S.A., and around the world: vaudeville pioneers, flappers, aviatrices, burlesque dancers, hula hoopers, movie queens, sex bombs, jade girls, tomboys, pin-ups, sour beauties, girl jocks, swordswomen, and go-go girls.
iPhone 4S is worth buying to look fashionable but not for Siri feature -- Shanghai Daily | 上海日报 -- English Window to China New
One of the most touted features of the iPhone 4S is the web-based voice recognition assistant Siri. It's interesting and sometimes powerful, but not always in China. First, it doesn't support Mandarin and China-based map and location services, which makes it somewhat less appealing than Apple's US-based advertising would have you believe. The good news is that Apple has said it will launch a Chinese-language version of Siri this year. Second, it can't always recognize words spoken in English. I tried it 10 times, and it recognized my words only 5 times. A Canadian native speaker who also tried found it worked seven out of 10 times. Still, it will give you results sometimes if it manages to catch only keywords.
Siri, c'est la personne qui vous répondra toujours au téléphone.
December 2011
Ghetto at the Center of the World: Chungking Mansions, Hong Kong, Mathews
There is nowhere else in the world quite like Chungking Mansions, a dilapidated seventeen-story commercial and residential structure in the heart of Hong Kong’s tourist district. A remarkably motley group of people call the building home; Pakistani phone stall operators, Chinese guesthouse workers, Nepalese heroin addicts, Indonesian sex workers, and traders and asylum seekers from all over Asia and Africa live and work there—even backpacking tourists rent rooms. In short, it is possibly the most globalized spot on the planet.
November 2011
艾未粉果 Ai Wei Fans' Nudity
艾未粉果 Ai Wei Fans' Nudity —— Listen, Chinese Government: Nudity is not Pornography
October 2011
Martial Views: Cultivating Wisdom
Apple, HP and Dell among companies responsible for 'electronic sweatshops', claims report
"Left to themselves, multinational companies and Chinese manufacturers will continue to pursue business and labour practices that ultimately abuse Chinese workers," the report said, noting that the entire industry is unregulated and that Apple only pays £3.99 to manufacture a £600 iPhone, leaving factories little option but to make profits by exploiting workers.
Il est fort ce Steve, il arrivait même à les payer en livre sterling !
Marriage and the Law of Supply and Demand - NYTimes.com
An imbalance in the opposite direction characterizes the contemporary marriage market in China. The Chinese government’s one-child policy, combined with a cultural preference for sons and technologies that permit selective abortion, have helped to create a large sex-ratio imbalance among young Chinese. For every 100 women in that group, there are now more than 120 men.
Future Perfect » Bandit Translation Teams
Popular content is available in China, with Chinese subtitles within 8 hours of being broadcast almost anywhere in the world
September 2011
Languages of the World (Wide Web) - Research Blog
Chinese and Japanese also seem unusual because there are relatively few links from pages in these languages to pages in English. This is despite the fact that Japanese and Chinese sites are the most popular non-English sites for English sites to link to. However, the number of sites in a language is a strong predictor of its `introversion', or fraction of off-site links to pages in the same language. Taking this into account shows that Chinese and Japanese webs are not unusually introverted given their size. In general, language webs with more sites are more introverted, perhaps due to better availability of content.
picto
August 2011
Chinese retailers hijack the Ikea experience
July 2011
Bricoleurbanism » Demolition of Tianjin’s old city
Mass demolition of old districts is something of a “normal” thing in China, but to people who imagine that the large-scale destruction of historic city centres is a thing of the relatively distant past, the fate of Tianjin’s old chinese city serves as a sobering case.
Yahoo! poll shows Filipinos willing to boycott China-made goods
Chinese manufacturers reportedly using Apple-rejected displays for iPad clones
June 2011
Dojo Rat: The Paradox of the Yapping Master
March 2011
Yinzhou | the people | movingcities.org
Who are the people of China? Who are the people constructing, demolishing and sweeping the Chinese city? Where do they live? Soon we’ll know. At least how many people live in China’s urban areas. While the state is counting its people, we are busy taking pictures… A Ningbo’s Yinzhou District 宁波市鄞州区.-selection.
Goodfonts
February 2011
See It, Read It, Eat It
January 2011
December 2010
BrandZ Top 50 Chinese Brands
The future urban landscape.With China’s ascent to become the world’s economic powerhouse and the Chinese government’s new focus on brand building, never has it been so important for Chinese companies to focus on their brands. With this in mind, we are delighted to present the first BrandZ Top 50 Most Valuable Chinese Brands Report.
November 2010
Private photo: a seductively beautiful woman with and her cat
October 2010
Chinese Hakka Houses | Chinese Rural Dwellings
Photographer Ryan Pyle traveled to Yongding county to document these unique rural Chinese dwellings, some of which house up to 80 families and have gun holes for defense against bandits.

