Most students of cultural studies, Middle Eastern studies or the humanities in general are bound to be familiar with the concept of orientalism, the title of the late Edward Said’s watershed explication of the West’s images and discourse of the east and other non-white peoples. There is also a “mirror-image” phenomenon called occidentalism—the cultural [...]
Nabel Tiles: occidentalism in China
August 20th, 2008 · No Comments
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Adbusters: Hipsters and the dead end of western civilization
August 14th, 2008 · No Comments
Hipster: The Dead End of Western Civilization | Adbusters Culturejammer Headquarters via kwout
OK so this writer lays it on a bit thick, but I think he/she does have a very valid point. He doesn’t see any subculture with cajones, and he/she is right because there is nothing of that sort. Hipsterdom is very much connected, [...]
Overheard in Shanghai
August 3rd, 2008 · No Comments
Some (questionably) funny snippets of life in Shanghai:
1. A boy riding a bike circles around a family of three black people walking down the street.
He says “three black people! Three black people! Oh what fun! Darlie Toothpaste!”
(三个黑人,三个黑人,真好玩!黑人牙膏)
2. Taxi driver, talking to me about things getting closed down in SH because of the Olympics.
“They are closing [...]
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Sex and the Party: Is China ready for a nude island?
July 26th, 2008 · No Comments
The sexologist Pan Hai has called for one of the idyllic islands off Zhuhai–Miao Wan Island–to be turned into a nude island. The blog post, written on July 15, is titled 中国应有裸泳海滩 (China ought to have a nude beach) and lays out some of Pan’s reasons he believes it’s about time for China’s own nude [...]
Terracotta warrior lights to debut during Olympics
July 23rd, 2008 · No Comments
The original article mentions that these terracotta warrior lights feature more than just the traditional warriors—there are also pregnant women and children, done in a similar style. There are 102 of them and will be displayed at some plaza whose English name I don’t know, but in Chinese it’s 世贸天阶奥运文化广场.
Following my general trend of unflinching [...]
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Hu Yang comes out with new photo series on young people in Shanghai
July 15th, 2008 · No Comments
Hu Yang (胡杨) is the Shanghai based documentary photographer that takes shots of people living in Shanghai, in their native environments–their homes. He did a series that got a lot of publicity in the last year or so, it was called 《上海人家》 and showed Shanghainese people (or at least people who live here) from all [...]
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Photography books capture Wenchuan earthquake and aftermath
July 15th, 2008 · No Comments
I saw this book when i was in the Xingguang Photographic Equipment Center on Luban Lu, in one of the bookstores on the third floor. The book is called 震动中国(百名摄影记者震区全记录 and cost 80 rmb, but I felt cheap at the moment, so didn’t end up buying it. I think it’s a good book, but it’s [...]
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Getting rid of the sand in the Yellow River (some pictures)
June 30th, 2008 · No Comments
Original article about Yellow River here.
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Chinese people’s attitude towards the Olympics has changed (subtly)
June 19th, 2008 · No Comments
…according to an article from Xinhua, as we reach the 50 day until the start of the Olympics mark. The article cites purely anecdotal evidence to say that while everyone is still looking forward to the Olympics, the enthusiasm has been tempered by the natural disasters that have befallen China–the snows, the floods, the earthquakes. [...]
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Should the Super Voice Girls be Olympic torch-bearers
June 11th, 2008 · No Comments
I’ve had about all that i can take of torch-bearers and Olympics stuff, but this news item caught my eye: it seems that Chinese netizens have been busy debating whether or not Super Voice Girl celebs like Li Yuchun, Zhang Liangying (my personal favorite, the only cutie in the bunch) and He Jie are fit [...]
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