Every now and then we try to lighten the mood around here with a little feature we like to call Art, Dammit. Today’s piece comes to us via ChinaSMACK, it’s a beautiful short animated film supposedly made domestically (although its high quality has made some netizens suspicious). Watch the film before reading our comments...
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There is nowhere on earth we can learn about or read about without bias, but even given the assumption that bias exists everywhere, China might be the worst country in the world to attempt to study if you're trying to assess the veracity of anything remotely controversial.
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The changing of "skeletons to corpses, bones to flesh" in The Burning Crusade has been a revision that goes against what many players wish -- this was not one of the revisions originally requested by the evaluation expert, The9 took the initiative in demanding this revision. a personal opinion: everyone...
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This story has been a bit buried by other things, but it bears mentioning even amidst the sterling satire of The Onion: there are now 338,000,000 Chinese internet users. To start with, let’s get a handle on just how large a number that is. If every single person in the United States used the...
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…kind of. Apparently, the game itself isn’t quite ready, but the official site and registration are already online, and not a moment too soon for the game’s Chinese publisher NetEase, who was apparently losing 4.22 million RMB every day the game was offline. Soon, Chinese gamers can get their fix again, although they’ll need...
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…As to those of you talking about ‘the problem of ethnic minorities’, I have grown up with many minority friends and classmates, including Hui people, and except for their religios beliefs there is no difference between then and us Han people. They took eat, wear clothes, look for a better life, they’re not constantly...
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CLARIFICATION: TIME’s China blog story sort of implies that this is an official release, or somehow actually part of the game. It is not. As far as anyone can tell, this is just a hack/mod/re-skin created by a fan or fans in China for the purpose of making a joke. It isn’t something you...
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As many of you know, this past weekend was the gaokao (高考), China’s brutally long standardized college entrance exam. The test differs from region to region and student to student (depending on whether they have focused on sciences or the humanities), but all students are tested in Chinese, Math, and a foreign language (usually...
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Recently, things have gotten a bit serious here at ChinaGeeks, so in order to combat the crushing depression that comes from constantly writing about depressing things, we’re instituting a new series: Art, Dammit. Art, Dammit will appear unexpectedly from time to time, covering whatever we find that’s worthy of your time (or maybe isn’t)....
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More and more people worldwide are learning Chinese each year, and if the Chinese government has anything to do with it, they’ll be learning at Confucius Institutes. Confucius Institutes (孔子学院) are a Ministry of Education initiative; they are in essence Chinese language and culture schools set up in foreign countries, sometimes at universities, that...
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