Roland Soong from ESWN sums up a trend that I’ve also observed over the past few years: Over the past few months, I have been seen so many major breaking stories turn out to be rumor-fueled. The small number of stories that I have written about were largely about rumors. So I have two reactions [...]
In case you missed it, Robin Peckham has a great piece over on World Wide Pop regarding the historic Guan Gong Fights the Aliens (1976) film. A Taiwanese production filmed in Hong Kong during the 1970s, the movie is part Japanese Godzilla film and part cheesy Chinese myth. Incidentally, I also ran into the film [...]
My picks from the Segbuy (赛格网), an online electronics marketplace with zero shipping fees and a seven-day buy-back guarantee. The online “trading platform” is run by the same company who own one of the famously large electronics malls in Shenzhen (the SEG Building 赛格广场). Click on the images to go to the product page with [...]
The Financial Times has a fun little round up of emerging high end men’s wear companies in Hong Kong and Singapore. Rather than summarizing the article (which mainly states that these firms are meeting a growing demand and trying to put their respective cities on the map), I’ve rounded up a representative sample of images [...]
The above is an ad for Zaker, a Chinese iPad app that resembles Flipboard with Chinese characteristics. Ignoring the whole “copycat innovation” debate, it’s interesting to note that: The video ad itself portrays a very ascetic but rich Western lifestyle (down to the cheesy piano music in the background) The “Instapaper” functionality sticks out like [...]
Source: Streetfilms.
From the WSJ by Nicholas Frisch: Mr. Sheng’s 2001 MacArthur “genius” grant propelled him into an elite circle of globally famous Chinese composers. His peers include Tan Dun, an Oscar-winner for the “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” soundtrack, also with a premiere at New York’s Metropolitan Opera to his name; Chen Qigang, a student of the [...]
I was skimming through the latest “state of the Chinese internet” report from the China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC). It’s a pretty comprehensive study by a government body that interviews 60,000 people from 31 regions/areas. One section that caught my eye was internet security. The report was boasting that only 45.8% of those polled [...]
Fascinating read from my co-blogger Lyn’s research on shanzhai as an innovation space in the future. My favorite excerpt comes from Bunnie Huang (the Chumby guy): 1) Buy low, sell high — and time counts as money. No holds barred. 2) Confucius’ silver rule, do not do unto others what you would not have them [...]
From Monday Flying. Shang Xia（上下）is literally translated to mean ‘Up and Down’ in Chinese. Figuratively, the phrase is used to describe a ‘topsy-turvy’ situation.An interesting move from Hermès, Shang Xia is a rare development from the luxury group, which tends to buy all or part of existing brands. … Product line-up includes a balance between [...]
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