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Spring is here! And at Nicely Made in China (NMiC) it’s around this time of year that we get itchy feet! A trip, be it on horseback in far flung lands or a stay at auntie’s beach bungalow, needs careful preparation: tickets have to be booked and the right clothes have to be packed. We spoke to NMiC’s partner Serge Pierrard, CEO of Beijing-based Travel Stone (Asia-specialist travel agency) about the dos and don’ts for a memorable trip.
China Blog List: Blogs about Greater China
Beijing Notebook bourdieu_boy's Journal Angry Chinese Blogger Chinese Chic All Roads Lead To China
Posted on 2012-03-26 Some suggest the Wang Lijun incident and Bo Xilai’s removal are a victory for pro-reformers in China. But Chang Ping cautions that quiet within the Party could cool the engines of reform, and proponents of political reform must continue to push.
China Media Project
Public displays of affection like kissing or even holding hands between the sexes use to be taboo in China. This gradually relaxed with the opening up of China in the late eighties, though attitudes to homosexuality remain in the closet. The latest ads from Benetton would definitely be frowned upon, as they show China’s President Hu Jintao kissing America’s President Obama. While partnerships between the US and China has been improving, I wouldn’t say they were yet at the hugging stage of the relationship.
X-RAY China: — art, branding, communication, design, experience
One of the biggest challenges facing our fast-growing social media team is finding the best talent out there. We have rarely resorted to recruiters, instead preferring to use social media. My colleague in Beijing, Jeremy Webb, created this flowchart to help in his search for talent. Posted on Sina Weibo, China’s largest Twitter-like platform, he
Thomas Crampton - Social Media in China and Asia
China Youth Watch by China Youthology 青年志
By Jay Mark Caplan and Iris Bian In 2009, white- collar worker Xie Xie took a vacation in Tibet, and fell in love with an avid backpacker named CaiCai. They parted ways and returned to office jobs in Shanghai and Guangzhou, but soon after XieXie gave CaiCai a call. “Why don’t we both quit our jobs and take a gap year together?” XieXie and CaiCai’s 10-month journey to 18 countries became a viral sensation on Weibo, their most popular post forwarded over 75,000 times. ‘Gap Year’, or taking a year off to travel, is fast becoming a cultural trend among Chinese youth.
interview | a chat with blueprint, a digital creative collective
“From a deep pool of blue ink rises an image…” – this is written on Blueprint ‘s Neocha.com homepage, a digital collective that describes itself as a Chinese creative group with no artistic bounds. In an “Internet world” filled with many options for exploring different kinds of creative content, we find ourselves frequently entering Blueprint’s creative world. Their distinctive style comes from the ambient / “lowercase” electronic sound they produce as well as their visual works, which exude a subtle mysticism. The depth and breadth of content under the “Blueprint” name actually comes from members who live in many cities, including Zhengzhou, Beijing, Shanghai, Hangzhou, Chongqing, Guangzhou, Nanjing, among others. It’s important to note here that the new generation of Chinese creatives can’t be neatly divided into the usual first tier city, second tier city, etc. classifications.
Welcome to Danwei. We are now publishing on Danwei.com . if you're looking for research, analysis or monitoring of China's Internet, media and consumer culture, please see our research page . + Self-censorship: the 2,000 pound rhinoceros on the dining table (2005.04): In sum, the Chinese government's censorial authority in recent times has resembled not so much a man-eating tiger or fire-snorting dragon as a giant anaconda coiled in an overhead chandelier. Normally the great snake doesn't move. It doesn't have to. It feels no need to be clear about its prohibitions.
Chinese media, marketing, advertising, and urban life - Danwei
While I was absorbing caffeine and beta carotene at a sunny Beverly Hills espresso spigot earlier this month, I came across a superb article in the Wall Street Journal explaining how the U.S. motion picture business is starting to make films that are aimed at an international market . The phenomenon has reached such a stage, in fact, that movies ONLY likely to appeal to a domestic U.S. audience are not getting the green light, and those films deemed promising but too US centric are being given script and casting makeovers to make themselves more appealing to international audience. Darn those Foreigners Paying to See Our Movies! About time Hollywood woke up to the rest of the planet, I say, but writing in The City Journal , New York's local Neoconservative periodical, author Andrew Klavan apparently thinks otherwise .
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Singapore: One moon, one sun, thousands of wishing spheres Researchers at the University of Hawaii disclosed this week that the Earth is likely being watched over by not one silvery sentinel, but two . Those of you who have shelved your social lives to read the most anticipated book of the year, Haruki Murakami’s 930 page tome, IQ84 , may be feeling a bit on edge after learning this news.
Aimee Barnes
It’s next to impossible to imagine what it was like on the ground at Hiroshima when the atomic bomb fell on August 6, 1945. But what if the blast had been ten times more devastating than it was? Utterly inconceivable. There is no way to visualize it.
The Peking Duck
Yes, we know the Chinese government has blocked Twitter (" China's Net Nanny Blocks Twitter "), but many of these active Twitter users have found alternative ways to keep posting on the site and we hope the service will resume its normal status soon. We've also included a list of their recent tweets, all posted in English, to give you an idea of what they write about. As a group, they provide a colorful and informative picture of life and consumer behavior in Greater China.
25 China Experts You Should Follow on Twitter - AdAgeChina - Spe
April 26, Sina Weibo verified account named “Second Artillery Liu Yuanyuan” exposed herself of drunk driving on micro-blog which attracted many Chinese netizens’ attention. Claimed a member of Second Artillery Corps Art and Cultural Troupe she also “flaunted wealth” by sharing her personal photos. People’s Liberation Army Second Artillery Corps Political Department and Propaganda Department News Director Chen Shoufu made a public statement that the Second Artillery Corps did not have such person named Liu Yuanyuan. so-called “Second Artillery Art and Cultural Troupe member Liu Yuanyan” flaunting wealth, exposing drunk driving were all publicity stunts. Report on Wednesday said, the ambitious Starbucks is continuously expanding in China, but customers staying in Starbucks not leaving is a major obstacle of expanding in China – “Customers love these shops too much, they sit there for hour after hour, and sometimes without buying any coffee at all.”