If you read nothing else today, read this: “How Did I Break [out of] Jail?“. The incredible first-hand account of how Chinese blogger Peter Guo (Guo Baofeng), better known as Amoiist, was arrested but managed to get an SOS message out via his Twitter, which then turned into an international campaign to see him released. …Read More
Neocha, the net’s premier source of Chinese indie music, has just released the newest version of their NEXT player. We spoke to Neocha founder Sean Leow about the first version NEXT player and Neocha nearly a year ago, and have been using it rather faithfully since. Despite its awesomeness, everything evolves and NEXT 2.0 has …Read More
You may have heard that the planned Oasis shows in Beijing and Shanghai next month have been canceled. Apparently 12 years isn’t enough time to separate a musician and his ties to a certain autonomous region’s freedom concert. Though no “official” reason has been given for the cancellation, the concert’s promoters said it was due …Read More
The Mandarin Oriental Hotel, what upon opening this year would have been one of Beijing’s most exclusive and luxurious hotels, lit up like a, well, like a lantern tonight while the rest of the country celebrated Lantern Festival. Proving again the newsability of Twitter, the story broke online as it happened, with videos appearing on …Read More
China’s wildly popular IM service has “quietly” launched a new portal focused on the international market – IMQQ.com. According to a post on Mobinode: “An email sent from an insider, reveals that Tencent has just quietly launched its international portal for QQ, IMQQ.com where you can find all the English information you need to try …Read More
A quick note to wish everyone a very happy new year! With the tragedy, controversy and craziness of China’s 2008 now behind us, 2009 is bound to be tame by comparison. Somehow, however, I suspect this crazy country us laowai call home is bound to find ways to keep things interesting and you can be …Read More
Just a quick note to let everyone know that should they be unable to reach the site over the next 24 hours it’s because we’re moving to better servers. Our servers are currently located in the US, but for whatever reason the pipe to the data centre is being squeezed when it hits its last …Read More
CNReviews was good enough to share the official Chinese public holiday schedule for 2009 – the year of the Ox/Cow/Bull/Thing With Horns That (assuming appropriate gender) Giveth Milk. Check out the original post for more details, but the key dates are: New Year – Jan 1-2 Chinese New Year – Jan 25-30 Qingming Holiday – …Read More
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A rather hilarious video where Onion commentator Poyuan Wei talks about how great the [*chingov*] is, and how infallible the Chinese legal system is. h/t to Alex on Hao Hao Report.Read More
Entitled “Reflections Of A Bridge Blogger”, Roland Soong’s CNBloggercon speech wonderfully sums up the transition that’s happened, largely due to the Internet, in China over the past five years that he’s been writing EastSouthWestNorth. Unfortunately, due to a family emergency, attendees at the 2008 China Blogger Convention in Guangzhou last weekend were unable to hear …Read More
The ebb and flow of Chinese Nationalistic fervor mixed with undying “historic” hatred of the Japanese should really replace ping pong as China’s national sport. Japanese & Chinese Students Fight In Shanghai: A group of drunk Japanese foreign students making noise get into a fight with Chinese students at a university in Shanghai. Two Chinese …Read More
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