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"At first, the experience was “awkward, my face and ears turned red and my heart skipped a..."

Tue, 14 May 2013 08:36:09 -0400

“At first, the experience was “awkward, my face and ears turned red and my heart skipped...

Luna Lee - Voodoo Chile Gayageum Version

Sun, 05 May 2013 06:36:53 -0400

Luna Lee - Voodoo Chile Gayageum Version

“Chinese consumers spend the least time with traditional...

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 07:35:32 -0400

“Chinese consumers spend the least time with traditional media, which accounts for just 35% of their media time. Games consoles, online PC and online mobile account for the rest of the 9.43 media hours they consume each day”

Daily Media Consumption – Traditional vs. Digital

"Everyone knows that, compared with when Bakhtin and Benjamin were still alive, the current..."

Sat, 16 Mar 2013 22:43:24 -0400

“Everyone knows that, compared with when Bakhtin and Benjamin were still alive, the current...

theartofchina: Yi Fan | 祎璠 A typical night market with street...

Fri, 08 Mar 2013 23:16:22 -0500

theartofchina:

Yi Fan | 祎璠

A typical night market with street vendors offering vegetables, meats, or little gadgets.

"The sexual revolution in China goes largely unnoticed and is rarely talked about, yet it’s in full..."

Fri, 08 Mar 2013 22:59:36 -0500

“The sexual revolution in China goes largely unnoticed and is rarely talked about, yet it’s in...

"But it is also true that the United States allowed China to rise because it was so supremely..."

Thu, 28 Feb 2013 03:39:07 -0500

“But it is also true that the United States allowed China to rise because it was so supremely...

theartofchina: © Rony | 莫安琦（前达也） Neighbors & chatters,...

Sun, 24 Feb 2013 00:13:30 -0500

theartofchina:

© Rony | 莫安琦（前达也）

Neighbors & chatters, Shanghai 2012.

stressfm-feed: Harlem Shake explodes in China

Tue, 19 Feb 2013 06:06:23 -0500

stressfm-feed:

Harlem Shake explodes in China

二号线 Line 2

Sat, 16 Feb 2013 23:20:12 -0500

Gif portraits from beijing metro

Photo

Tue, 12 Feb 2013 05:47:41 -0500

stressfm-feed: Shenzhen, a cidade vazia Estima-se que mais de...

Mon, 11 Feb 2013 22:53:46 -0500

stressfm-feed:

Shenzhen, a cidade vazia

Estima-se que mais de dois terços dos 10 milhões de habitantes de Shenzhen tenham regressado à sua terra natal durante o período de férias do ano novo, proporcionando imagens como estas do centro de uma das cidades mais dinâmicas do mundo.

pritheworld: A view of the CCTV and TVCC towers on the...

Wed, 16 Jan 2013 07:40:30 -0500

pritheworld:

A view of the CCTV and TVCC towers on the afternoon of January 12, the afternoon of January 13 and one week before the Opening Ceremony of the Olympics in 2008. Beijing saw previously unheard of levels of pollution over the weekend with air pollution being so bad it was “off scale,” according to the air pollution monitor at the U.S. Embassy.

Beijing was wrapped in a suffocating blanket of smog over the weekend.

Pollution, according to air monitors at the U.S. Embassy, was so bad the index used to measure such things doesn’t even go as high as the monitoring equipment recorded. But people who were outside didn’t need fancy equipment to know that the air was bad, they merely had to look up - or out. They were lucky to see the top of buildings, or even a couple blocks down the streets.

For those commenting on smog blur in the pic, pollution only 357 on air quality index then, compared w/ 775 sat night! twitpic.com/bv7c9h

January 14, 2013

@angshah Here you go. yfrog.com/oe3jwpinj

January 14, 2013

@angshah 3.45pm, Sanlitun area. That’s facing east. No filter, and I opened the screen on the window to take this.

January 14, 2013

With air toxic even by Chinese standards, Weibo weighs in: 33.5 million posts on “pollution,” 26m on “fog”, 4.7m on “PM 2.5.” And counting.

January 14, 2013

01-14-2013 03:00; PM2.5; 523.0; 515; Beyond Index

January 13, 2013

PRI’s The World’s Mary Kay Magistad has lived in Beijing for 14 years and says that this is the worst air quality she can recall. In past years, the government has denied the problem of air pollution, but more recently began releasing more air quality data and expanding programs to reduce emissions.

Of course, China isn’t the first country to deal with bad pollution.

In an interview this spring with Yale Environment 360, the environmentalist Ma Jun connected his cause in Beijing to past efforts in London and Los Angeles:

Many Western cities have gone through a very polluted stage. London used to suffer very badly from “London fog,” which was really smog. At first, people didn’t know the major source of air pollution was burning coal; then they realized it was a big problem, and London gradually phased out coal-fired power plants within city limits. That greatly reduced the discharge of sulfur dioxide, starting in the 1950s. Los Angeles faced a different type of air pollution — it was less about coal and more about car emissions. The way that L.A. addressed air-quality problems was by increasing mileage standards and fuel quality, and also by improving the emissions-control devices installed on cars.

“The Great Smog of 1952” in London led to Britain’s Clean Air Act. Recently, California also enacted a cap and trade program that will require about 350 companies to pay for their carbon dioxide emissions.

Chinese officials are pointing to a phenomenon known as a temperature inversion as the cause for this record-breaking pollution. That too has a historical precedent in the western world. In Donora, Pa., in 1948, some 20 people died and hundreds were hospitalized when a temperature inversion trapped pollution in the small city. The situation was so bad, night practically turned to day; environmentalists trace the aftermath of Donora to the creation of the U.S. Clean Air Act.

And while there are no figures available about whether this weekend’s incident led to any direct deaths, a Greenpeace study found more than 8,000 premature deaths each year can be traced to bad air in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Xi’an.

omgthatartifact: Mongol with Camel and Horse Copy after Li...

Wed, 16 Jan 2013 07:23:45 -0500

omgthatartifact:

Mongol with Camel and Horse

Copy after Li Gonglin, China, Yuan Dynasty

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

theartofchina: Du Yingnan (杜英男), Chinese Kids (中国小孩). 24,200...

Wed, 16 Jan 2013 07:16:29 -0500

theartofchina:

Du Yingnan (杜英男), Chinese Kids (中国小孩). 24,200 CNY.

The red scarf (红领巾) is an essential element of school uniforms worn by Chinese kids beginning in grade one. The scarf is an emblem of the Young Pioneers of China (中国少年先锋队), a youth organization that falls under the Communist Party. Children are told at a young age that the red scarves are made of blood by the courageous soldiers that sacrificed their own lives for an independent China.

Rádio Shaoxing 17

Wed, 16 Jan 2013 02:35:24 -0500

Esta semana o programa é dedicado ao Nanfang Zhoumo (南方周末), um jornal de Cantão considerado um...

Documentário da CCTV sobre o Guqin

Wed, 16 Jan 2013 00:44:00 -0500

stressfm-feed: joeylikesthings: knowledgeequalsblackpower: rea...

Tue, 15 Jan 2013 22:14:24 -0500

stressfm-feed:

joeylikesthings:

knowledgeequalsblackpower:

really-shit:

The REAL Toy Story | Michael Wolf

庄周梦蝶 - Zhuangzi sonha com a borboleta (ou talvez seja a...

Tue, 15 Jan 2013 09:19:14 -0500

庄周梦蝶 - Zhuangzi sonha com a borboleta (ou talvez seja a borboleta que sonha com Zhuangzi)

orientallyyours: Sioma Lifshitz, or Sam Sanzetti as he was...

Tue, 15 Jan 2013 09:06:13 -0500

orientallyyours:

Sioma Lifshitz, or Sam Sanzetti as he was later known as, arrived in Shanghai on a freighter from Vladivostock in 1922. The 20 years old energetic Russian Jew had no money but soon started to work in a photography studio. He opened his own studio in 1927, becoming one of the most famous photographer in Shanghai. Sanzetti left Shanghai in 1957 to immigrate to Israel leaving a Chinese wife and a stepdaughter behind. His Shanghai portraits were rediscovered by his stepson after his death in 1986. With the help of Prof. Pan Guang at Shanghai Acadmey of Social Sciences and the Israeli Consulate in Shanghai, 200 of these pictures have been selected for an exhibition held in Shanghai in 2012. As very little information was available on the people photographed, the Israeli Consulate in Shanghai posted photos on Weibo in a public appeal and after months of research, more than 10 people have been identified (see the following for more info: Livingsu.com, Chinadaily.com, Ecns.cn)

Sources: Consulate General of Israel in Shanghai, 360军事网- 1, 2, 3, 4, Shanghailander.net