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Event Announcement — Accurately Voicing the Mandarin Dialect — Hints and Tips — in New Haven, CT 15 Nov 2011 | 08:27 am
For those in the New Haven, CT area interested in Mandarin, I’ll be giving a short presentation on helpful techniques to accurately voice the dialect at the next Pechakucha Night this Wednesday (11/16...
AsiaBizBlog — Soon to Come: A Change of Direction 26 Oct 2011 | 01:28 am
Here’s the takeaway: AsiaBizBlog will continue, but with a somewhat modified approach. Over the past decade, I’ve focused AsiaBizBlog on Chinese business and law, thus contributing, I think, in a sma...
Entire Kunming （昆明） Apple Store: Fake (With Photos) 22 Jul 2011 | 03:18 am
From the WSJ China Real-Time Report: A blogger in Kunming posted photos on Wednesday of a local store which, from a distance, looked just like one of the consumer electronics giants’ iconic full-serv...
Entire Kunming （昆明） Apple Store: Fake (With Photos) 21 Jul 2011 | 11:18 pm
From the WSJ China Real-Time Report: A blogger in Kunming posted photos on Wednesday of a local store which, from a distance, looked just like one of the consumer electronics giants’ iconic full-servi...
EVENT: Shanghai Premiere of Departures: North Korea 8 Jul 2011 | 07:23 am
Here’s the scoop from Simon Cockerell’s firm, Koryo Tours: Koryo Tours is pleased to present the Shanghai premiere of the Canadian Travel Documentary Departures: North Korea. Broadcast in 2010 on the...
Video: Car Mounts Pedestrian Bridge to Avoid…Oh, Gee, You’ve Got to See It 6 Jul 2011 | 03:25 am
The TV anchor describes the extraordinary (but not so for China) actions of a driver during rush hour: driving over a traffic jam on a pedestrian overpass! A man holding a baby attempts a blocking man...
Video: The Earthquake and Urban Illumination of Tokyo 4 Jul 2011 | 04:27 am
This time-lapse video demonstrates the effect of the earthquake upon electricity consumption in Tokyo: A tip of the hat to Pink Tentacle, one of my all-time favorite blogs.
Video: China Star Restaurant, American TV Ad — LOCO Awards 1 Jul 2011 | 11:36 pm
Netizens have voted this local American TV ad a favorite in the LoCo Award contest — “honoring the best in local commercials.” I post it here as a demonstration of the current state of Sino-American c...
Secretary Daley Tells Angry American Manufacturers That Things Aren’t That Bad 18 Jun 2011 | 02:32 am
American manufacturers tell him point-blank that this administration has done very little in aid of domestic manufacturing and Mr. Daley still manages to say: “You can’t sound Pollyannaish,” Daley to...
Video: Bob Lutz, Ex-GM, on the Failure of Feely-Dooly Bureaucracy 16 Jun 2011 | 01:12 am
Bob Lutz, formerly Vice-Chairman of GM: “We’re not tough enough in the way we run our businesses.” Business has become the expression of failed social experiment. He mentions China (once), but the val...
