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August 2009
Marc Laperrouza » Blog Archive » A positive carbon city
The good news is that the eco-friendly trend seems to be growing. Chinese factories produce a third of the world’s solar cells and China will soon lead the world in wind turbines.
Megalopolis Shanghai by Horst and Daniel Zielske | Daily Icon
In this series of pictures, the two photographers - father and son - present Shanghai between fiction and reality as the ‘city of tomorrow’. The focal point of their photographic work is the architecture of the city’s streets, a critical investigation and analysis encompassing the subject of urban landscape. In a long-term project begun in November 2002, they have been documenting the metropolis Shanghai as an urban composition, a man-made architectural living space and enviroment of unprecedented and unimaginably gigantic dimensions. The resulting images are of immense visual beauty.
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July 2009
Damn Cool Pics: Tianzi Hotel - Weirdest Hotel in China
Located in Hebei province, China, the Tianzi Hotel was built sometime in the 2000-2001 period. It is a ten-story high representation of Fu Lu Shou (good fortune, prosperity and longevity) that apparently holds the Guinness World Record for the “biggest image building” whatever that means.
June 2009
May 2009
osaka to shanghai
BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | China builds first sex theme park
The park will also offer sex technique workshops and safe-sex methods.
Haut perché: Zhong Biao
Quelques oeuvres de l'artiste chinois contemporain Zhong Biao.
February 2009
Ningbo Historic Museum / Wang Shu, Amateur Architecture Studio | Arch Daily
the Ningbo Historic Museum designed by Wang Shu, Amateur Architecture Studio.
JLM Pacific Epoch - Google China: '08 Mobile Stats, '09 Strategy, SafeSearch Chinese Version
Google (Nasdaq:GOOG) China's mobile search traffic increased four-fold in 2008, making China Google's third largest mobile search market behind Japan and the U.S., reports qq.com quoting Lin Bin, vice director of Google China's engineering institute. Google China's mobile map usage climbed seven-fold in 2008 to come in second after the U.S. According to an unnamed source, the company plans to use its cloud computing technology to improve mobile, MP3 and map search services in 2009. Google China's map products have begun generating revenue and the company may consider increasing revenue via advertising, said Google China technology director Li Yi. Google China's MP3 search service (www.google.cn/music) was launched through a partnership with music site Top100.cn in early August.
CCCB :: Exhibition In the Chinese city. Perspectives on the transmutations of an Empire - Ciutat i espai públic : Espai públic : Espai urbà : Transformació urbana, Cultura : Transformació cultural
For a decade now, China has been immersed in major processes of construction and destruction that have greatly modified its landscape. The exhibition will situate these changes in the country's historical and cultural continuum. It aims to present the reality of the city past and present in four of its dimensions: town planning, architecture, landscape and infrastructure. It will also be an opportunity to compare these realities with the Chinese and Western imaginaries, and with mechanisms of information or propaganda.
Wall Vinyl - GOING UP at the New Museum | Urban China at the New Museum
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presents conversation, ideas, and criticism in support of the New Museum exhibition Urban China: Informal Cities, a physical manifestation of the magazine Urban China which will explore notions of the informal (or vernacular) as they apply to the current urban situation in China and the United States. On view at the New Museum from February 11 through March 29, 2009.
Futures of Learning
Photo-shopping images and circulating them on the Internet is most closely associated with “Little Fatty” (Xiao Pang), a Shanghai teenager (real name Qian Zhijun) whose photo was snapped by someone during a training at a gas station and then uploaded to the Internet in 2003. His round face with his slightly hesitant sideways glance somehow captured the imagination of a slew of photo-shoppers, and his image was soon replacing the visage of everyone from the Mona Lisa to Jackie Chan to Johnny Depp
Catherine perdue en Chine: 1 journée dans la vie de Shanghai
1 seconde de film égale 15 minutes en temps réel.
January 2009
December 2008
China breaks out - Los Angeles Times
The Atlantic Online | December 2008 | “Be Nice to the Countries That Lend You Money” | James Fallows
Pour être acceptable, il faut que l'on ressemble aux valeurs occidentales… racisme à l'envers pour créer du respect. Débile.Two very large, very thin desktop monitors read out financial data from around the world. As we spoke, Western classical music played softly from a good sound system.
RFI - La Chine actuelle à travers une trentaine d’artistes contemporains
Cui Xiuwen, l’une des rares femmes présentes (elles sont deux) pour l’exposition China Gold qui se tient actuellement et jusqu’au 13 octobre au musée Maillol à Paris.
ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES - Film Detail
(via)In FENGMING, Wang Bing, whose majestic, nine-hour epic, WEST OF THE TRACKS, screened at Anthol-ogy last year, presents her unforgettable story, from her repeated persecution under the two reformatory campaigns in China during the 1950s through her rehabilitation in 1974.
Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
(via)Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks (simplified Chinese: 铁西区; traditional Chinese: 鐵西區; pinyin: Tiěxī Qū) is a Chinese documentary film by Wang Bing. Over 9 hours long, the film consists of three parts, "Rust," "Remnants" and "Rails."
Jiong: Chinese Internet is so 囧 these days
A popular Chinese character/pictogram often used on the Chinese-language internet to express being shocked, amused, or stupefied. Possibly originated from Taiwan, and similar to “Orz” which looks like a person kneeling/bowing.
Paris-Beijing Photo Gallery
During the 1960’s, faced with an unstable foreign policy as well as a high demand for resources, the People’s Republic of China was forced to delocalise most of its heavy industry and armament factories. Originally situated on China’s coasts and in the North East close to the Russian border, these factories were obliged to relocate in the countries heartlands, hidden away and better protected...
