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"War of Internet Addiction": A Must-See Movie

February 11, 2010
By C. Custer

I apologize for stepping on Max R.’s most recent translation, which is here and which everyone should read. But I would be remiss if I didn’t point you in the direction of this post on Youku Buzz, and this machinima film, called War of Internet Addiction. That link goes to Youku, but viewers outside...
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…Brother is Only Legend

January 29, 2010
By C. Custer

Perhaps you’ve already seen this. Still, we’re going to add to the madness because it’s fun, and because sometimes even very serious China watchers like us enjoy watching videos about crazy men with knives wearing underwear and threatening their bosses. First, the video (h/t to Ryan of Lost Laowai, click the link if the...
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Ai Weiwei: "F*ck Your Mother, Motherland"

October 8, 2009
By C. Custer

WARNING: This post contains vulgar curses in Chinese. Ai Weiwei is never one to shy away from controversy, and his most recent short film (thanks to commenter Wahaha for the tip) is no exception. It’s called, “Grass Mud Horse, Motherland.” Grass Mud Horse shares similar pronunciation to the common and vulgar curse, “f*ck your...
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Super Baozi Man

August 4, 2009
By C. Custer

Finally we get around to the real reason people come to ChinaGeeks: video of baozi fighting with nunchuks. And also rocking. There’s been some discussion lately about animation in China and whether or not it stands up to other asian competitors, so we thought this video of Super Baozi fighting Sushi Man (presumably, representing...
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Art, Dammit: "Water Brain"

July 28, 2009
By C. Custer

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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Video Time: Tibetans on Tibet and the Olympics

July 20, 2009
By C. Custer

Remember near the end of the year in grade school when your teachers got sick of teaching and showed vaguely educational movies? That’s sort of what this is like. We’re too busy to post something real at the moment, so we pass along this thirty-minute video we got from Woeser’s site. It’s not particularly...
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Recommended Reading

February 2, 2009
By C. Custer

As anyone reading this blog is probably aware, there are a ton of valuable China related sites out there. Here’s a list of the ones we read regularly, or at least, most of them. This page will be edited regularly to add new blogs as we find them. General China Blogs Danwei.org - Chinese...
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