Can’t get enough of that ass-kickingly intense UFC action? Lucky for us, the Ultimate Fighting Championship has teamed up with Sohu to offer live streaming Pay-Per-View of their events: as most of the UFC is Mixed Martial Arts, it’s about time they bring it to China, the so called “cradle of martial arts.” The kick [...]
It’s practically impossible to enforce intellectual property rights in China, which holds the heavyweight title for the world’s best pirates (of goods, not actual pirating), and that’s espeically true on the ‘net. It’s even harder to enforce copyrights when even the courts won’t admit that rights are even being infringed: a [...]
Talk about preemptive cloning! While the world is swooning over Apple’s announcement (that was, granted, completely expected) about it’s new toy – the iPad, Chinese copycatters have already come out with their shanzhai versions… three months ago.
This 10.2″ silver-bezeled, black framed computing device is the P88 from Shenzhen Great Long [...]
While China may have been all about itself at the Beijing Olympics, it heads to the Vancouver Winter Olympics with its head in its hoodie, downplaying expectations of how well it would do. [LA Times]
You know what would be the thing to calm Xinjiang down? Investment, thinks China. [Reuters]
Speaking of which, [...]
Despite hopes of many to turn the area around the soon-to-be-begun Shanghai Disneyland into a resort-like area for China’s burgeoning population of rich people, it seems like the Shanghai government’s got another idea: budget housing. Mayor Han Zheng said yesterday that he’s trying to negotiate for the allocation of some land around the site for [...]
Just a few days after Google first threatened to leave China, this lil’ shanzhai site popped up. The title, Goojje is a pun. The jje part of it sounds like “jie jie (姐姐)” or sister, which mirrors how Google’s last syllables sound like “ge ge (哥哥)” or brother. Goojje is also a [...]
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Prolific blogger and tongue-in-cheek foreigner “hater” Hung Huang talks about how she agrees with the phrase “One Zhang Ziyi [is] more effective than ten thousand Confuciuses” and why China should focus on its “soft power.” [CN Reviews]
You know why China produces so many clever people but so few geniuses? Because… This. Is. SPARTA!! [...]
So much for the petite Chinese woman. This monstrous madam oversees customers shopping in the Yintai Center. According to an English translation on a nearby plaque, her name is Lili, she is from the future, and, “Maybe she is predicting the end of humanity.” So, hurry and get that LVMH bag!
And I know this has [...]