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Always Together: The Documentary
‘From the first Mento record ever recorded on the island to the continuing popularity of performers like Black Chiney today, Chinese-Jamaicans have played a tremendous but little-recognized role in the development and spread of Jamaican music.’
music  jamaica  china  reggae 
16 days ago by threedaymonk
Blocked on Weibo
‘What's not allowed on China's version of Twitter’.
china  chinese  censorship  internet 
11 weeks ago by threedaymonk
Chan Koonchung's dystopian vision of China in 2013
books  china 
august 2011 by threedaymonk
Chinese Military Shovel WJQ-308
I want one of these. It’ll be handy when the zombie plague arrives.
china  military  tools 
january 2011 by threedaymonk
The end of the American era?
‘Contrary to the claims of right-wing critics, opponents of US power have not been motivated by anti-Americanism, but rather by anti-imperialism. Will it be any step forward for the world to be subjected to Chinese imperialism rather than US imperialism?’
us  china  imperialism  politics 
january 2011 by threedaymonk
King’s Cross to Beijing in two days on new high-speed rail network
And all ‘within the next ten years’, apparently. I really hope this happens.
railway  trains  transport  travel  china 
march 2010 by threedaymonk
A Little Primer of Xinjiang Proper Nouns
How to pronounce Uyghur etc.
xinjiang  china  uyghur  linguistics  turkic 
august 2009 by threedaymonk
Freak Beijing storm turns day into night
With amazing photo evidence.
weather  climate  weird  china  beijing  photography 
june 2009 by threedaymonk
China Brushes Out Distinctive Hues of Names
Imagine being told to change your name because the computer can't write it.
china  chinese  name  bureaucracy  unicode 
april 2009 by threedaymonk
Shanghainese vs. Mandarin
china  shanghai  chinese  shanghainese  languages  commented 
april 2009 by threedaymonk
Chinese fight internet censors with "Grass Mud Horse" cuddly toy
china  censorship  humour 
march 2009 by threedaymonk
Tech Trend: Shanzhai
The growing creativeness of Chinese manufacturers.
china  shanzhai  technology  manufacturing 
february 2009 by threedaymonk
Beijing Mean Value Theorem
Our bridges are usually covered in graffiti if anything. One bridge in Beijing has a slightly more edifying decoration.
china  beijing  architecture  mathematics  education 
february 2009 by threedaymonk
Be Nice to the Countries That Lend You Money
Interview with Gao Xiqing, president of the China Investment Corporation.
us  china  politics  economy  finance 
december 2008 by threedaymonk
Chinese Breakfast Crepe(Jian bing guo zi)
How to make jiān bĭng, a delicious and cheap Chinese street snack.
cooking  china  snack 
october 2008 by threedaymonk
Xinhua Runs Spacewalk Story Before Astronauts Leave Earth
Propaganda fail.
china  propaganda  xinhua  space  news  schadenfreude 
september 2008 by threedaymonk
'Ethnic minority' children at Olympics ceremony were fake: report
Based on what I know of China, I had actually assumed that this was the case from the outset.
china  olympics  fake 
august 2008 by threedaymonk
E-Z steps to make your own Beijing air at home
Hilarious.
china  beijing  humour  pollution 
august 2008 by threedaymonk
Chinese Internet censorship: An inside look
censorship  china  internet 
may 2008 by threedaymonk
Self-portraiture and emerging artistic consciousness in Dafen
Chinese painters of fakes paint themselves.
art  china 
april 2008 by threedaymonk
Don’t Know Much About Tibetan History
Summary: The claims of both the Tibetan separatists and the Chinese government are wrong, the Chinese side somewhat more so.
china  tibet  history  politics 
april 2008 by threedaymonk
We Just Want the Truth! Anti-CNN.com,Anti-BBC.com,Anti-VOA.com
A Chinese view of western coverage of Tibet.
media  politics  tibet  china  uk  us  germany 
march 2008 by threedaymonk
At war with the utopia of modernity
A better insight into the reasons behind recent Tibetan unrest than the common ‘commies are bad’ explanation.
china  tibet  culture  politics 
march 2008 by threedaymonk
Map of Beijing
Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft don't cover the city.
china  beijing  maps 
march 2008 by threedaymonk
Chinese characters, literacy, and the Japanese model
‘[Japanese] public school graduates […] retain a recognition knowledge of the 1,945 kanji but soon forget how to write all but 500 or so.’
japan  china  japanese  chinese  kanji  hanzi  literacy 
may 2007 by threedaymonk
China's food fears Zhou Qing
Mmm, pesticides!
china  food 
may 2007 by threedaymonk
Historical Maps of East Asia
English, Scottish, American, Italian, and German maps of China, Japan and Korea.
maps  history  japan  korea  china  asia 
july 2006 by threedaymonk
Ha Ha Ha America
Excellent satirical short film comparing China against the US. ‘Only thing China not make is job for American worker.’
humour  politics  us  china  video  satire 
july 2006 by threedaymonk
Egg Piracy in China
Clever, but baffling—and potentially dangerous to the diner!
weird  china  food 
april 2006 by threedaymonk
Happiness: The Chinese zombie ships of West Africa
Amazing.
china  photos  fishing  africa 
march 2006 by threedaymonk
Shanghainese Introduction
‘This site aims to fill the void created by the lack of formal education in and on Shanghainese.’
languages  shanghainese  shanghai  china 
february 2006 by threedaymonk
All Look Same
Can you distinguish Chinese, Japanese, and Korean people by face alone?
japan  korea  china  games 
december 2005 by threedaymonk
Affiches de propagande chinoises
Scanned Chinese propaganda posters.
china  design  propaganda 
august 2005 by threedaymonk
Stefan Landsberger's Chinese Propaganda Poster Pages
A comprehensive collection of posters from the early days of the PRC to the present day.
china  design  propaganda 
august 2005 by threedaymonk
Uniting China to Speak Mandarin
China: one country, two systems, and hundreds of languages!
china  languages  chinese 
july 2005 by threedaymonk
Violence rises as the Chinese rage at Japan
An in-depth look at the anti-Japanese riots in China and the situation surrounding them.
japan  china 
april 2005 by threedaymonk
The row over Japan's past and future
Note to Japan: it would be a good idea to own up to wartime atrocities. Denial antagonises the Chinese and Koreans, and convinces no one.
japan  china  korea 
april 2005 by threedaymonk

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