There are few things I love more than photography, Photoshop and good Chinese controversy. Imagine my delight then when I stumbled across a WSJ article, “China Eats Crow Over Faked Photo Of Rare Antelope“, that melds the three.
In what has become this month’s journalistic black-eye (in a LONG line of similar cuts and bruises) for China, it’s been discovered that a photo of the rare Tibetan antelope (or Chiru) casually cavorting along the Tibetan plateau as the new Qinghai-Xizang high-speed train bullets by was completely fake.
The image, photographed manufactured by …
Think Baidu’s just a Google copy? Think again. The Chinese search engine that dominates domestic searches may have a lot in common with the “do no evil” American search giant, but it is in itself a whole other animal.
On March 10th my good friend and business partner, Professor Lonnie Hodge, will be joining Grace Zhou, manager of Baidu’s international office, to present the Baidu Basics webinar. They’ll be joined by Sam Flemming, CEO and Founder of CIC, an innovative IWOM research and consulting firm out of Shanghai.
Moderating the event, in between filming new video podcasts …
Xinhuanet is dead right about one thing, it may be three weeks ago now, but I really am only just getting over my “gasp” at Zhang Ziyi’s dress on the phenomenon that is CCTV’s annual Spring Festival gala, they were just wrong about the reason. Bowled over by the fairy-pinkness of it yes, but the skirt was 3 bloody metres in diameter, hardly practical for such “ordinary girls” as me who need to get on buses and stuff. It’s wider than my bathroom for God’s sake!
Talking of the gala, I’d better get to my lead-in…did anyone see Chinese girl band SHE perform, or more importantly, actually listen? Well, …
Finally. Finally a journalist has sat down and hashed out a detailed, sourced explanation of how China’s Internet censorship works. May I just say, thank you Mr. Fallows.
James Fallows is The Atlantic’s “man in China”, and his article “The Connection Has Been Reset” is the first article I’ve seen that has given an extensive rundown of the technologies and policies the Chinese government employs in its battle with keeping the Internet a sanitary and “harmonized” place.
Fallows explains the censorship breaks down into four levels: 1. the DNS block, 2. the “Connect” Phase, 3. the …
For all those Chinese parents looking to get their kids into Harvard or Yale, they should take their noses out of those how-to-books writen by parents of successful students and instead read the biography of one of their countrymen. Yung Wing’s My Life in China and America (China Economic Review Publishing) is the biography of China’s first graduate from Yale — way back in 1854.
But Yung isn’t a guy to just rest on the merits of his college degree. This is a guy who was at the center of many of the major events in China in the 19th century — both through contacts and luck. …
With a U.S. ailing spy satellite being put out of its misery two days ago (Feb. 20th, 07:26 PST) by the U.S. Navy, comes a new source of confrontation between the U.S. and China, just a matter of a few days since Steven Spielberg resigned as an artistic director of the Beijing Olympics in protest at China’s multi-faceted involvement in Sudan.
The U.S. has claimed that it shot down its own satellite with its own missile - at a cost of just over $30 million - to protect earth-dwellers from an out-of-control piece of space junk loaded with “toxic fuel” potentially burning through the atmosphere and slamming into a remote village in rural Peru, or somesuch place.
It might also be down …
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I’ve long been a fan of ChinesePod.com
, a site that offers free mp3 podcasts for learning Mandarin. Having used various aspects of the site for nearly the entire time I’ve been in China, it was with a lot of interest that I read the company being mentioned in the New York frigin Times!
In my line of work, I tend to see a LOT of Internet start-ups with grand ambitions quickly fade into nothing, so to me it’s cool to see a business that’s not only flourishing, but being recognized for what it is - a leader in melding technology with cutting-edge learning practices.
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I was just chatting with a friend in Canada and she suggested a check out the new Foo Fighters single - The Pretender. Being the suavy Chinese Internet surfer I am, I jumped over to Baidu’s handy mp3 search and immediately brought it up.
Impressed with my slick mp3 finding prowess, my friend asked how I found it so fast. I copy and pasted the search results link for her and nothing but confusion insued.
After finally figuring out she wasn’t getting any search results on her end, I decided to do a little reverse proxy trickary - correctly figuring if I can use a US-based proxy to get around the Great Firewall, perhaps I can also use it to synthesize …
For months, scratch that, for years I’ve been thinking that China’s vision of the 2008 Olympics in Beijing is just completely out of whack with the reality of the event.
Seeing large city squares be constructed, buildings erected, national pride stoked, all in preparation for Er Ling Ling Ba - the year of China’s Olympics - misled me into thinking that the folks at Zhongnanhai were putting far too much weight and importance on what essentially amounts to a couple weeks of sports meets.
I was wrong.
Additionally, I have long held the belief that September 2008 will go down in history as the month that a full 1/5 of the world suffered from mass disillusionment all at once as the realization …
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