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The Chinalyst is an informal community for China related English blogging. The goals of the community are to encourage the growth and development of English content about China and to serve as a platform for finding and discussing up-to-date China related information and news. Chinalyst provides a steady stream of updates from member blogs writing about China.
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Too much music!
This article was aggregated from Round-the-World Barstool Blues
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HBH 173
This article was aggregated from Round-the-World Barstool Blues
Too many spirits,
Danger of an umbrella;
Cowboy's derision.
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More than meets the eye
This article was aggregated from SHE in China
One would think this was a serious aerobic class in full throttle. And I guess it was. But not for everyone:
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Going Green- Pedal Power in China
This article was aggregated from Understanding China, one Blog at a Time
Bikes a plenty on the street in Beijing, also look at the beautiful blue sky. 
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Google Translator: Making the World a More Baffling Place?
This article was aggregated from Paper Republic
Machine translation has been in the news lately, so I thought it might be interesting to conduct an experiment. I've chosen four different Chinese texts (excerpts from a novel, a film and two newspaper interviews), translated them into English with Google Translate, and added my English translations (three of which have appeared on Paper Republic in the past year). I'm sure most of the translators in our forum have their own machine-translation stories...hope you'll share.
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Bookstore Uncertainty
This article was aggregated from DeluxZilla
A professor recently boasted that he spent anywhere from 6,000 to 9,000 RMB — or $900 USD to $1,300 USD — in a single year for reading materials.
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Chinese Sayings- They knew the Black Crows
This article was aggregated from Understanding China, one Blog at a Time
New section: or maybe ADD moment, I call this masterpiece, “Chinese sayings”Crows everywhere are equally black.WTF, dont know what this means…are they biggots? 
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Shanghai Life and How to Print Flyers Cheap
This article was aggregated from ChinaVentureNews
© madtptLife in Shanghai is what you make it. Most big cities are like that. If you let it, a job in most cities will eat your life. If you can set clear boundaries between what's professional and what's personal you can maintain the balance in your life - do a job well and still have time for some sort of private existence. Sometimes your professional life and personal life do manage to overlap, though. And that can be okay.
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Beijing Billabong Bar Crawl: 12sqm, Ned’s, Mao Mao Chong

This article was aggregated from Beijing Boyce
So, last week DJ Chunky and I headed to 12sqm, Ned’s, and Mao Mao Chong, three bars at least partly owned by Aussies, a mere boomerang’s throw from each other, and perhaps deserving a special designation — The Beijing Billabong? The Vegemite Triangle? Other? In any case, I recommend doing this mini pub crawl.We started [...]
Knock, Knock? Who's There? China Tax Man.
This article was aggregated from China Law Blog
I had a conversation the other day with a leading journalist on how both of us are always right about our predictions. I joked that the beauty of writing is that all we need to do show how right we are is to highlight the predictions on which we were right and to let cognitive dissonance wash away all the other ones.
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How To Succeed In China Business. THE Rules.
This article was aggregated from China Law Blog
Rich Brubaker of All Roads Lead To China is out with an über-helpful post, entitled,A Few Rules for Succeeding in China, setting out the following eight rules to follow to succeed in China:
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(Suspended) Poll: Where is your favourite spot for a COCKTAIL in Beijing?
Sixth Bass: The Syndicate's Birthday Blowout
A Golden Opportunity
This article was aggregated from China Blawg
With it’s rich natural resource deposits and close proximity to both China and Russia, It comes as a surprise that Mongolia has not been tapped for its resources during the recent worldwide mining bo...
St. Patrick’s Day parties in Beijing: Guinness draft going cheap…

This article was aggregated from Beijing Boyce
The theme of St. Patrick’s Day this year seems to be who can provide Guinness draft the cheapest. Here is the info I have so far for next Wednesday, March 17, including details on a near full week of debauchery planned at Paddy O’Shea’s. Will update as I get more info…Molly Malone’s: A free pint of [...]
China’s nouveau cuisine
This article was aggregated from Eileen Eats
The popular Chinese newsweekly Sanlian Lifeweek in February ran a cover story gushing about 100 new creative dishes that are being served in five major Chinese cities. The feature ran no less than 123 pages and was accompanied by colorful photographs that were appealing to the eye, if not to the stomach.Take for example, the [...]
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Chapter 37: Forgotten Workers and Contracts
This article was aggregated from Speaking of China
What happens when your company in China forgets you?
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Managing the Increasing Price of Chinese Real Estate
This article was aggregated from China Blawg
Taking a lesson from the collapse of the American real estate market that overwhelmingly contributed to the current global financial crisis, the Chinese government has had the difficult task of reigni...
The Chinese model of contemporary art
This article was aggregated from Shanghai Eye
Oops, I missed this in the midst of the New Year’s activities- Redbox have kindly posted up some of my thoughts on Chinese art here....
China’s Export Surge
This article was aggregated from China Blawg
China experienced a nearly 50% increase in exports for February, reaching $94.5 billion US dollars. China's exports surged more than expected in February as imports continued strong growth, indicative...
Alternative Culture is Going to Take Over! JUE Opens Tonight
This article was aggregated from The Beijinger Blog

An Edinburgh Fringe in China? Sounds ambitious for a whole lot of reasons, but that’s what Split Work are hoping to do with the JUE Festival, an extended lineup of artists, performances, screenings and exhibitions in Beijing and Shanghai.
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‘Nude push ups’ artist wins honourable mention at world photo prize
This article was aggregated from Shanghai Eye
ESWN has the news hereQuote:On February 12, the results of the World Press Photo (WPP) competition (also known simply as the “Holland competition”) was announced in Amsterdram. There were 586 entries (either singles or series) from China, ...
Landslide in Shaanxi
This article was aggregated from Danwei
Beijing Morning Post, March 11, 2010 Today's Beijing Morning Post presents two images that many of the country's newspapers featured on the front page.
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Ayi manual
This article was aggregated from The diary of Jakob Knulp
A previous post show the Tokyo metro poster. I found funny images on china divide [(also take a look to the blog is interesting and has deeper writing than usual blog (as this one)]Look at others





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