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Category Archives: Trends and Buzz
Is personal safety another argument for Chinese romanization?
A warning to people named 单, 覃, and 解. Having an odd name may be hazardous to your health. The Beijing Times reports that a tourist booked plane tickets with a travel agency only to find that the phoneticization of … Continue reading
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Wife swapping in southern China
Not your daddy’s tea party From Asian Sex Gazette: It began somewhat awkwardly. Cold weather and plumbing problems had the pool and hot tub out of commission and the swingers, dressed mostly as if they’d just arrived from their various … Continue reading
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The Economist City Guide and Beijing Taxi Fares
The Economist magazine publishes a collection of monthly newsletters with stories and recommended activities in selected cities across the globe. Beijing is the latest member to join the exclusive list, following her allegedly cooler sisters Shanghai and Hong Kong. This … Continue reading
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Chinese rock podcasts and Midi music festival
No cops, music, pogo, dye your hair, be yourself. Chaile.org is a blog about “underground music from China” written by Adam, an American who used to live in Beijing. He has started podcasting. There are two episodes so far, including … Continue reading
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Bilingual brands: Google China’s GuGe yarn continues
Google, the world’s largest media company, doesn’t seem draw much comfort from its activities in China. Earlier this year, Google copped some flak over the launch of Google.cn, a local version of its search engine that saves people the trouble of clicking through links that are inaccessible from China. A recent Keynote survey declared Google to be China’s “best search engine” as far as user experience goes, but the American giant is still trailing behind local rival Baidu, which controls roughly 50% of the local market.
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China’s talent shortage
The International Herlad Tribune published an interesting piece about the recruitment struggles of foreign companies in China. Selected quotes: …A recent McKinsey report, titled “Addressing China’s Looming Talent Shortage,” said surveys had shown that fewer than 10 percent of Chinese … Continue reading
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I Want My ‘Super Girl Card’!
A Super Girl credit card?
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CPPCC: Exterminate the Super Girls
CPPCC member Liu Zhongde talks about the harm being done to the Chinese public by the talent show Super Girls.
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Sexuality in China: Let’s Get It On!
Your place or mine? According to an article published in the print edition of today’s Legal Mirror, a recent series of official surveys performed on a sample of unmarried people in Beijing and Shanghai revealed that a large portion of … Continue reading
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