The Water Consciousness Bag raises awareness of water shortages in Northwest China.

Shanghai graffiti writers paint live at the Search for Creative City (寻城记) series.

Sun Haipeng is one of the most talked-about computer graphics (CG) animators in China at the moment. His 3D animations Dragon Fist and Super Baozi vs. Sushi Man caught our eye early on and over the past couple of months have received a tremendous response from the Chinese netizentry.

“Guangzhou Supports You!” is a new crowdsourced, hyper-local online photography activity in Guangzhou, China.

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China’s Central South University has set up a new facility to help students deal with emotional stress.

In an online review of a clone of the HTC Diamond 2 phone in China, a local tech blog argues that the fake could be better than the original.

The Happy Farm game on Chinese social networking sites is one of the most popular and particularly among white-collar workers. Some Happy Farm enthusiasts enjoy virtual farming so much that they have decided to try out the real thing. One Shanghai farm is planning to jump on the trend and put up 100 cabins for city farmers to use during extended holidays.

Chinese girls are buying ‘homes’ at iPartment, a social networking/gaming site that lets users interact with their ‘love apartment’ via pets, diaries, gardens, and games all while looking for someone to share it with.

Located near the former city wall of Beijing, Steven Holl’s “Linked Hybrid” complex is completely self-contained, and features one of the largest geothermal heating and cooling systems in the world.

In a fascinating illustration of crowdsourcing (and piracy) in China, Yeeyan, a collaborative translation website, has posted the prologue and first two chapters of The Lost Symbol.

Walking through the Shanghai subway recently, we noticed a rack of “Coqui” (小青蛙) shoes which looked incredibly similar to Crocs, which have been popular in Shanghai for the past few years.

Jan Chipchase shows us this image he took in China of red pasted ‘duilian’ either side of a new ATM. The Nokia enthnographer says that the duilian helps bless every transaction that passes through the machine – If you’re a believer, of course.
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We’ve been following the shared workspace trend globally for a few years now and have been noticing a uptick in the number of co-working spaces in China lately. We’ve been particularly impressed by the efforts of the newly-opened Xindanwei (新单位) in downtown Shanghai, who joins a few other shared workspaces sprinkled throughout the city.

Anybody who visits IKEA on a weekend in China will be sure to find the familiar scene of customers napping on the couches and beds. And if you stop by the popular IKEA cafeteria, you almost certainly will have to wait around before a table opens up. Following up on our previous coverage, we now take a deeper look at Chinese consumers reaction to IKEA.
Opening their first store ten years ago, IKEA has become a popular place for the rising middle class to spend their freetime, but they are not necessarily buying the furniture. In our experience, Chinese customers are [...]