Category Archives: Trends and Buzz

How much would you pay to donate blood?

Changchun University of Technology asks all students to donate 50 yuan to a blood drive to that students who donate blood can get award money.

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Jack Ma: Vision, and fears of a bubble

The elf that roared Last week your correspondent was a panelist at a huge conference in Shanghai about interactive and search engine marketing called Ad:tech. The keynote speaker was Jack Ma (马云), the elfin and charismatic founder and CEO of … Continue reading →

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Guo Jingming’s new magazine and charity

Guo Jingming (郭敬明) and the new Top Novel (最小说) fiction magazine.

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Hu Ge’s new spoof: Action movie dodgy drug infomercial

Hu Ge has a new parody film out.

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Beijing boots and brands

The mercury has dropped in Beijing and winter is on the way. To mark the changing of the weather, Danwei did a spot survey of seven young women and eight young men in the shopping districts of Xidan and Wangfujing, … Continue reading →

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Beijing Shorts: Carrefour, IKEA, and the Baidu Economy

Carrefour models its latest promotional logo on the World Cup emblem; Ikea has worms in its mushrooms; Baidu MP3 search allows local shops to do business in music downloads.

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Models for the 2-jiao RMB note

The Korean and Tujia models for the profiles on the 2-jiao note. Also, why Mao is on all of the latest money.

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China Businesscast: Chinese Word of Mouth with Sam Flemming

Flemming talks of net stars and other commercial trends in the Chinese web How do you sort through the massive noise of millions of messages posted daily on Chinese web forums, aka BBS sites? Sam Flemming, CEO of CIC Data, … Continue reading →

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The guqin and earth’s greatest hits
by Peter Micic

Peter Micic writes about guqin music.

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China 1972 on Youtube

The Youtube video below, titled China 1972 — a Visual Memoir, was uploaded by Kevin Murphy who accompanied his father as part of the Canadian Government’s first trade exposition in Beijing, held in the second two weeks of August 1972. … Continue reading →

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