In China, the arrival of the tubaozi, the much-ridiculed “potato buns” from the countryside who got rich without ever living in a sophisticated first-tier city… Via the Chinese Economic Review, in an article about the evolution of luxury consumers in China.
Above: 10AM Communication’s ad for Capitaland showing off its philanthropic efforts. The setup is that many schools were destroyed by the Wenchuan earthquake in 2008, and that Capitaland has helped re-build 15 schools across China. The video features their star project, the first “green hope” (whatever they mean by that) school in China. The Singapore-based [...]
(Disclaimer: This is a repost of a blog post I wrote at my day job, which I think 88 Bar readers will also find interesting. Apologies for the plug.) We’ve started playing with the newly released ShowMe app, which lets you create Khan Academy-style video tutorials. So far it’s been pretty great. Below, we’ve included the first [...]
From Outside’s Kinda Long March: I CALL A HALT and set the video to capture the scene. After three days of clear weather, broken curtains of low clouds chase across the wooded slopes of Thunderhead Mountain in the distance. The rising wind brings a damp chill, and our team begins unpacking rain gear. No one [...]
Follow Tricia in her adventures to put herself in the shoes of migrant workers in Wuhan and to understand youth at the borders (economically and geographically) are using technology in China. First stop: Room, board and internet in an underground tunnel: I’ve been touring underground tunnels looking for a short-term rental. This is the room [...]
Debuted at the Techyizu Demo Day a week ago, the Rudy Bike. Via 新车间, the hackerspace in Shanghai.
VANKE Tulou Housing Guangzhou – Affordable housing complex By URBANUS Architects Historic Tulou Housing in Yongding – China More from Iwan Baan on his website. (Via Solid Gap.)
Just read two recent articles on the Financial Times on Hong Kong’s sham competitiveness, especially within its own boundaries: Hong Kong’s land system that time forgot — about how the government still profits from a colonial custom of land sales, and how this not-so-competitive system has created the most expensive property prices in the world. [...]
While videogame hackers and fans have been translating Japanese games into English for decades, there hasn’t been much attention paid to translating and popularizing games in other languages. Part of the reason is that games that aren’t from the US or Japan are not very well-known, and part of the reason is that a fan-made [...]
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