Google and Kingsoft launched today a free Chinese-English-Chinese dictionary.
Now go and read the Chinese bbs yourself to really find out what’s going on in China.
If you install it on a non-Chinese operating system you probably see a lot of weird symbols (not Chinese but more machine language like), on the first page of the […]
Update
Mystery solved, it was a typo and it has been corrected, see comment by ESWN.
While getting updated on the latest in China I visited the always very informative EastSouthWestNorth blog to read the translated essay by Huangfu Ping.
Suffering slightly from professional deformation I didn’t start reading the text of the article right away but looked […]
No matter how much I like Starbucks for their 12 rmb coffee of the day, how many people do they expect to type in this URL.
Source: ad in Cityweekend (Shanghai expat mag)
One of my favorite advertising methods in Shanghai is the advertising boat that pollutes my view when I have a coffee in Starbucks on the Lujiazui side.
As there seems to lack of number of advertisers a whole Haibao cartoon is shown these days. Haibao as you may have heard is the mascot of the […]
I got a comment in an old post, the one about the Internet Police, about being ripped off by a Chinese online shop offering electronic goods for great prices.
I don’t know the exact details but I did a quick search to see what info is available. It seems the commenter isn’t the only […]
Autumn is coming and you need some entertainment. You have seen all the dvd’s they sell on the corner, including the ones that halfway change into being dubbed in Russian. The local channels aren’t really an option unless you want to see for the umpteenth time another historical drama and the very national CCTV […]
It seems the blogs on Wordpress.com have been unblocked again. Whether this is a nanny aberration has to be seen.
The Ya,I Yee blog has posted a hilarious though slightly sad conversation between a Chinese blogger and a staff member of the Shanghai Communication Administration.
The Chinese blogger has his blog on its own domain on a Shanghai server and the latest campaign is to close these down as apparently a blog is considered […]
Yahoo.com was unreachable here in China for more than 12 hours. It’s up again. The question is, is it accesible again because of a glitch in the Chinese firewall or is it allowed in again for good:)
The Chinese internet, never a dull moment…
Yet again an announcement to control the internet in China more.
It can be summed up with one phrase. An Internet Culture with Chinese characteristics
I guess it’s about time each and any country will start doing the same.
I like to see an Internet culture with:
French characteristics,
one with Indian characteristics,
a Fiji version and […]
Unsettling, and insistently gripping story of 3 generations of Chinese women
A must read for anyone considering doing business in China
