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Chinese Web Insights: Difficult To Understand 3G TV Ads

Chinese Web Insights: Difficult To Understand 3G TV Ads

Well-known Chinese brand strategy expert & advertising man Xu Dawei criticizes China Mobile & China Telecom’s 3G ad campaigns for not making much sense.

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High Heel Fetish Leads Boyfriend To Beat Up Girlfriend

High Heel Fetish Leads Boyfriend To Beat Up Girlfriend

A Nanjing man with a high-heels fetish forces his girlfriend to always wear them when they’re together. When one day she refuses, he beats her up.

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Chinese Bloggers On The 20th Anniversary Of June 4th

Chinese Bloggers On The 20th Anniversary Of June 4th

A collection of blog posts by mainland Chinese bloggers concerning the censorship and memories surrounding the 20th anniversary of Tiananmen Square 1989.

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Suicidal Chongqing Man Saved By Beijing Netizen’s Phone Call

Suicidal Chongqing Man Saved By Beijing Netizen’s Phone Call

A Beijing netizen saves his online friend in Chongqing by calling the police when the latter talks about committing suicide on QQ, China’s popular IM service.

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Sea Turtles: Wall Street Chinese Returnee Says America Easier

Sea Turtles: Wall Street Chinese Returnee Says America Easier

Chinese returnees who studied or worked abroad describe the difficulties of returning to work in Chinese companies, citing differences in communication & logic.

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Beijing Train Station Escalator Suddenly Reverses Direction

Beijing Train Station Escalator Suddenly Reverses Direction

In Beijing, dozens of people are hurt when an escalator suddenly reversed direction causing a chain reaction of people falling down and over each other.

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Husband & Wife Sue His Former Mistress For Money He Gave Her

Husband & Wife Sue His Former Mistress For Money He Gave Her

A man gives his mistress 330,000 RMB over the course of their 3 year affair. When it ends, he and his wife sue to get the money back. Spoiler alert, the couple wins.

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Chinese Web Insights: Taobao Is Toxic

Chinese Web Insights: Taobao Is Toxic

Keso, an influential Chinese tech blogger, criticizes a recent Alibaba campaign encouraging university students to start ecommerce businesses on Taobao.com.

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Pandas Left In Wolong, 1 Year After The Sichuan Earthquake

Pandas Left In Wolong, 1 Year After The Sichuan Earthquake

English translation of a Nanfang Daily article about the few giant pandas left behind in Sichuan’s Wolong Panda preserve park after 2008′s Sichuan Earthquake.

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Thai Anti-Communist Propaganda Pictures From The 1960s

Thai Anti-Communist Propaganda Pictures From The 1960s

Series of 6 pictures from Thailand in the 1960s depicting their differences from Communist China, including education, mobility, property, labor, & religion.

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Jackie Chan Said “Chinese Need To Be Controlled”, Or Did He?

Jackie Chan Said “Chinese Need To Be Controlled”, Or Did He?

Did Jackie Chan really say “Chinese people need to be controlled”? Let’s take a look at the Chinese and see if his comments were taken out of context and sensationalized by the Western media.

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English China Blogs Increasingly Translate Chinese Forum Content

English China Blogs Increasingly Translate Chinese Forum Content

Since chinaSMACK popped into the scene, other English China blogs have increasingly copied its formula of translating Chinese discussion forum news and content.

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Chinese Youth on Western Media: A Diversity of Opinion

Chinese Youth on Western Media: A Diversity of Opinion

Several days ago, ESWN posted a translation of a Tianya post titled “What is the reason China’s younger generation is losing confidence in the Western... 

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2008 Olympic Deals: $1 Meals and $1,131 Internet Acccess

2008 Olympic Deals: $1 Meals and $1,131 Internet Acccess

To say that the run-up to the Oympics (whee, 9 days left, rah rah) has been a stomach-churning, mind-numbing roller-coaster ride of twists and turns and ups and... 

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Yeeyan Interview: Another Bridge between East and West

Yeeyan Interview: Another Bridge between East and West

I have been following Yeeyan (译言) – a community for people to translate articles in foreign languages (mostly English) into Chinese language volunteerly,... 

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