Author Archives: Jason Li

Iwan Baan photography: New versus historic Tulou architecture

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.)

The netizens in the underbelly of China

From the excellent The Story of W&L: China’s Great Internet Divide: I also asked L, and only a handful of his grassroots users own a computer or have a 3G connection. So how could this happen? L smiled and said, internet cafes are not the most effective channel. Next to the factory districts there are [...]

Hong Kong is not competitive?

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. [...]

Casting call to translate Chinese videogame classics into English

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 [...]

ARTHK11

Ending today. Hong Kong’s annual art fair featuring works from galleries from all over (with Asian galleries dominating). Well attended by locals passing by, visitors flying in and from early reports, also by prominent buyers and sellers. Above: A local favorite that blends traditional Chinese landscape painting with modern Hong Kong skyscrapers. I wonder if [...]

Award-winning “Green Pedestrian Crossing” campaign

Via chinaSMACK.

Hot creative property of 2007, now in limbo

Reposted with permission from World Wide Pop. The story goes that Wang Momo (王卯卯), an undergraduate at the Communication University of China, was doodling on her blog one day and came up with a peculiar yet distinct rabbit-like creature. Built with Snoopy proportions, it also had no mouth and only had slits for eyes. Its [...]

Animated documentary about elderly in Hong Kong

Reposted with permission from World Wide Pop. The Postgal Workshop (猫室) has become the champion of homegrown animation in Hong Kong. Its recent comic book and animated shorts series, Din Dong (癲噹), went from being a local indie favorite to being aired on Japanese TV. Din Dong is a parody of the popular Japanese cartoon, [...]

If we put pandas on our plates…

Report from Adkungfu: Campaign by Ogilvy Singapore to raise awareness for the endangered blue fin tunas, which we do actually put on our plates (as opposed to pandas). Check out the c Via the Longyin Review newsletter.

Dispatches from an agricultural experiment zone outside Shanghai

Under construction. Sunday, April 17, 2011 in Taicang (太仓).