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Arts news round up

leifeng — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 18:41:00 -0600

State media warn artists face a tough time in the financial crisis here.

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Xinhua waxes on about a show at NAMOC in Beijing of young artists. For those in Shanghai, Weihai Road 696 is currently hosting a similar [...]

Fancy a graduate ayi?

shanghaiist — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 12:00:00 -0600

The Philippines have been exporting college graduates to work as domestic helpers / maids in other countries for many years now, but now, their Chinese counterparts are looking to do the same domestically:

DESPERATE Chinese graduates, facing grim job prospects amid slowing economic growth, are clamouring to find posts as nannies and domestic helpers for the rich in one southern province, state media reported on Wednesday.

Tudou being sued for copyright infringement

shanghaiist — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 10:02:00 -0600

China Tech News reports that about 80 copyright holders will be ganging up on Tudou for copyright infringement.
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Jue Festival guide

leifeng — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 09:11:00 -0600

Here’s a detailed guide to the Jue art and music festival Shanghai leg

Flyer from Pekin arts

leifeng — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 21:20:00 -0600

Zhang O’s new book

Starbucks getting a roasting in Shanghai

leifeng — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 21:09:00 -0600

H/T to Fons. According to this report, Starbucks are being aggressively squeezed in their key China market city, by local chains offering coffee for RMB 8, as opposed to their RMB 27, say, for an Americano.
shanghai Eye can confirm this, one of those new chains has opened opposite the main gate of Weihai Rd 696. [...]

Chinese art and the credit crunch

leifeng — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 20:35:00 -0600

This piece was written for the Art Newspaper.
As the financial crisis hits home in China people on the street have a pragmatic attitude towards the situation, 2008 was the year of the Rat, and a particularly inauspicious one because it fell on a leap year, and there was no full moon during the Spring festival, [...]

Weird times, weird people

shanghaiist — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 17:30:00 -0600

Yes, people are crazy and times are strange. Two days ago, a fashionably dressed young woman ate a RMB280 lunch at a Japanese restaurant somewhere near Nanjing Xi Lu and Chengdu Bei Lu. When it was time to get the bill, she told the wait staff that she had no money on her and needed to withdraw some cash.

Q+A: China on cusp of 3G and billions in spending

joelbackaler — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 08:24:00 -0600

Reuters/January 5, 2008
China last week approved long-awaited licenses for next generation (3G) mobile networks, whetting investor appetites with the promise of major new orders for equipment makers and revenue for network operators.
The new licenses will see dominant player China Mobile (0941.HK) forced to build and operate a 3G network based on a home-grown experimental technology, [...]
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Work in progress report, January

leifeng — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 06:15:00 -0600

Here are the latest work in progress shots (WIPs)
A narrative on constructionism