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The chance to begin again in a golden land of opportunity and adventure. New climate, recreational facilities. If you have no idea what I’m on about, go here. The apartment complexes in the second and third images are Seasons Park … Continue reading →

The ban on fireworks in many Chinese cities is both bemoaned and ignored during Spring Festival. These are propaganda posters from Beijing reminding citizens not to let off fireworks and to be careful of starting fires.

Let’s drink to a swinging Year of the Monkey. The above is a bottle of Beijing’s finest reality inhibitor, the gutrot known as Erguotou. Little bottles like the one pictured cost less than fifty US cents. Which is quite a … Continue reading →

This is the cover of the a Flemish edition of ‘The adventures of Tintin * The Blue Lotus’ by Herge. This is an extract from an article Graham Reid in the New Zealand Herald about Tintin’s 75th birthday: “Tintin – … Continue reading →

This is a photo of the inside of a printing factory in Beijing. The large red characters painted on the wall mean: “If you don’t work hard today, you’ll have to work hard looking for another job tomorrow.” Real old … Continue reading →

Chinese art publishers Timezone 8 have published a book of covering a decade of photography by Zhuang Hui, a fine art and documentary photographer who deserves to be better known. You can buy the book here. Timezone 8 are currently … Continue reading →

A friend sent me this photo and caption, but I couldn’t track down the source. Looks like a fairly typical Beijing fashion show. “Models show off fancy costumes which look like slabs of meat during a year-end party hosted by … Continue reading →

Headlines from the Chinese press JANUARY 5 NEWSPAPERS The Beijing News 新京报 American ‘Spirit’ rover landed on the Mars 美“勇气”号登陆火星

This sign is in the Propaganda category, because there is no category for funny signs. The image was sent in by Shanghai Eye who (which?) blames ‘the influence of PostKard.com‘ for the upper case ‘K’. PostKard distribute advertisements printed on … Continue reading →

These images are from the film Blade Runner: Now let’s turn to Beijing. Most of the images below come from Danda, which covers contemporary architecture and has plenty of information about some of the buildings that will attempt to dominate … Continue reading →