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I hadn’t noticed that the human flesh search phenomenon (moarality-driven smart mobs in China) had spawned its own search engine + news site. See above.

Interesting to see that the phenomenon has persisted for so long — I’d love to see where it goes in a few more years.

Via China Observer.

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From Techcrunch’s coverage of the 3G Industry Summit in Kunshan:

LEG3s is an award-winning mobile job hunting service specifically targeted at China’s 200 million migrant workers. The service informs those people about open positions, salary levels, the current situation in the job market etc. in over 100 cities in China. LEG3s has so far attracted 3…

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Quote from Christopher Knight’s LA Times review of the Beijing painter Song Kun:

Nowhere is it more engaged than in the triptych, where three panels show different views of a rock band playing on a club’s stage, fronted by a young female singer. In the lower left quadrant of each view, illuminated by stage lights that variously blare into…

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CNNGo, CNN’s Asia travel guide, recently published top “people to watch” lists for Asia, Shanghai and Hong Kong. The lists include an interesting mix of artists, entrepreneurs and corporate heavyweights, which gives a good albeit skewed flavor of what is going on at the fringes of (the well-polished side of) society.

So go now, to CNNGo’s…

• 39 hot people…

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I recently caught wind of the recent explosion of popularity of QQ’s Happy Farm  farming game:

Happy Farm is a farm management game — you grow crops, trade with others and steal from your neighbors. It’s so popular that QQ has had to cap the number of new players to 2 million per day.

People are addicted —…

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Excerpts from NeochaEDGE: first Matt Niederhauser’s photo of the Chinese indie music scene:

And second Win’s Hiromura Masaaki-inspired art:

“NeochaEDGE is a daily-curated, bilingual website and discovery engine dedicated to showcasing leading-edge creative content and emerging youth culture in China.” …

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Though pearl milk tea (or bubble tea) has been waning in Hong Kong for a while, it’s apparently still able to draw a crowd — particularly when it caarges only 12$ HK for a big cup.

Above: Come Buy, a Taiwanese chain in Mong Kok.

Source: Casey’s Fist of Fun.

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Someone has delightfully made a machinima* clip of the final, climactic match from the famous Slam Dunk manga using NBA 2K9 (videogame). It intersperses panels from the manga with sequences from NBA 2K9. It’s intricate and quite well done.

The clip is originally from Tudou, the manga dialogue is in Chinese, and the author is…

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Artist Dave McKean illustrates and writes the story about the ambiguous and corrupt deals made in a village in China. The story was originally from an anonymous Chinese reporter.

See original Twitpics here and here. (Via @zumaques.)

Above: 16-minute anti-war animation, visually rich, especially for a one-man team.

Backstory: Man works at ad agency. Man quits, returns home to live with mom, lives off of mom’s 1000 yuan/month retirement benefit, three years and half years later, the above animation was born.

Intended message: The Chinese animation industry is lousy and…

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