Category Archives: Trends and Buzz

Katrina vs Asian Tsunami

Posted on 2005-09-04 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Death toll from Asian tsunami December 26, 2004: 170,000 to 250,000 people; Death toll from hurricane Katrina: Estimates range from a few hundred to 20,000. Links and Sources Wikipedia: 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake Wikipedia: Hurricane Katrina USA Today: New Orleans … Continue reading →

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If Super Girls were on CCTV…

Posted on 2005-09-03 by Joel Martinsen

Parody of CCTV-style variety shows.

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Secret lesbian clubs to go public in Beijing

Posted on 2005-09-03 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Shaking up “China’s conservative moral arena” Beijing Today (nicknamed 北京土豆 by its staff) is an English language weekly newspaper published by Beijing Media Corporation, whose editorial operations are owned by the state, although the newspaper group’s advertising division is listed … Continue reading →

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Google Purge: Chinese bloggers fooled by Onion hoax

Posted on 2005-09-03 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Donews gets hoaxed by The Onion’s story on Google.

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Google Local for China

Posted on 2005-09-02 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Google’s location-based search service now has a Mainland China version that supports Chinese language searches. It’s at bendi.google.com. The service allows you to search for businesses and services in specific places, such as wireless Internet café in Chaoyang District, Beijing … Continue reading →

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Angry professor sues Deloitte for calling Taiwan a country

Posted on 2005-08-31 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Xie Baisan was traumatized when Deloitte’s website listed Taiwan as a country Accounting giant Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu recently launched a Mainland website. Xie Baisan, a professor of management studies at Shanghai’s prestigious Fudan university went to the website and found … Continue reading →

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Crying ‘corn’ and angry ‘bean jelly’

Posted on 2005-08-31 by Tsingsong

Super Girl fan culture.

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The final week of TV sensation Super Voice Girls

Posted on 2005-08-24 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Before the big finale, A complete run-down of Season II of the Super Girls: competitors, fans, and vocabulary.

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Is Beijing’s dialect dying?

Posted on 2005-08-24 by Mauro Marescialli

“Waa! I can’t speak Beijinghua!” On August 12, the Legal Mirror published an article reporting the introduction of Shanghai dialect expressions into a new Chinese grammar book. The news started a reaction among righteous Beijingers, who stormed the newspaper with … Continue reading →

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Cure to unhealthy queues found!

Posted on 2005-08-24 by Mauro Marescialli

An unnamed bright mind from Hubei province invented a ‘queuing machine’ that he says will prevent people from “stealing PIN numbers at bank counters”, according to yesterday’s Legal Mirror. The machine (pictured), which looks like a medieval torture device, is … Continue reading →

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