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Ai Weiwei’s “Circle of Animals / Zodiac Heads” 16 May 2011 | 07:00 am
Ai Weiwei, the Chinese dissent artist who has been detained for over two months now, premiered a new public exhibition at the Pulitzer Fountain outside the Plaza Hotel in Manhattan. The Circle of Anim...
Painting with Vegetables 27 Feb 2011 | 03:02 pm
Check out 用蔬菜作画的中国超级牛人: 桔多淇 (JuDuoqi) – (Chinese vegetable paintings) which uses some chinese cabbages and tons of other vegetables to recreate famous paintings and art, such as this Marilyn Monroe as...
NYC’s Chinatown Fair: Video Games Arcade 22 Feb 2011 | 09:44 am
I suggest checking out this great post The Last Arcade in Chinatown from Scouting NY. It tells the story of the last arcade still operating in New York’s Chinatown district: 004 from Flickr user nycs...
2011 Chinese 1oz Silver Panda Coins 5 Feb 2011 | 03:12 pm
The People’s Bank of China (中国人民银行) has released their 2011 1oz .999 fine silver coins at a whopping issuance of 3,000,000 units, due to high demand. The coins have a face value of 10RMB (~$1) and fea...
Sina Twitter Blocking “Egypt” Searches 31 Jan 2011 | 11:53 am
My sister wasn’t sure that China was blocking searches for Egypt and news on the ongoing revolution, so I quickly headed over to Sina’s twitter clone to verify. A quick search for tag term Egypt (埃及) ...
Singapore Airline’s new Singapore Girl campaign 29 Jan 2011 | 06:06 pm
Some preview videos have gone online for Singapore Airlines new campaign, and they’re beautiful! SingaporeAirlines11 describes them as: Join us as we go behind the scenes to trace the romantic journe...
Fortune Cookie Meme 28 Dec 2010 | 01:41 pm
This fortune cookie encourages you to get more fortune cookies: It’s a funny, nearly recursive, fortune cookie meme!
Create your own 豆瓣 RSS feed for Google Reader! 6 Dec 2010 | 09:21 am
Douban (豆瓣) is a popular Chinese user-submitted review community site. Unfortunately, most of the content is locked up to browsing, as only a few feeds are supported. If you want the latest comments, ...
China Hacked Google & Gmail 29 Nov 2010 | 10:10 am
With the latest Wikileaks release, the New York Times reports in Cables Obtained by WikiLeaks Shine Light Into Secret Diplomatic Channels that the Chinese goverment was behind the Google hacks which j...
Tibet Photos from Harper’s Bazaar Indonesia 7 Nov 2010 | 09:35 am
Photos from Harper’s Bazaar Indonesia: Seven Days in Tibet with model Zhang Fan. Tibet is a beautiful and strange place, far exotic compared to American pastures. There are a few comments on the orig...
