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China Hangs On to a Dying Windows XP
Today is April 7th, the last day before the worldwide phaseout of Microsoft’s Windows XP operating system. While most people out West will be operating happily in either Windows 8, 7 and even, hahaha, Vista, close to 200 million people in China will still be holding onto XP. According to StatCounter close to 50 percent…
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A Miniature Version Of Yourself That’s Good Enough To Eat
Simple dough, made from flour and water is used for everything from feeding the masses to making toys in China. Highly personalised toys. Personalised toys made out of what can be cooked and eaten. Across China, a special type of sculpting has been passed down from generations to generations. It’s basically taking a lump of…
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Kotaku EastTaiwanese Cardboard Artist Makes Iron Man Suit
Cardboard is great. It can be shelter, it can be storage, it can be entertainment, it can be invisibility on the battlefield, and if taken to the extreme, it can be art. Taiwanese artist Xhong Kai-Xiang definitely takes cardboard to another level. According to a blog post on the Stan Winston School of Character Arts,…
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Tips & Guides12 Tips for When You’re Traveling To China
Oh China. The Middle Kingdom, the home of kung-fu and pandas, is one of the hottest travel and study destinations in the world right now. With over 5000 years of history, China is definitely worth a visit and here at Kotaku, we’ve compiled a few helpful tips. Keep in mind that these tips don’t include…
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Kotaku EastHow Tea-Boiled Eggs Caused Online Controversy in China
Last week, one of the hottest topics online in China was an egg. Not just any egg, but rather an egg hardboiled in tea leaves and soy sauce. A tea-boiled egg. Tea eggs became a major topic of online discussion after a professor in Taiwan claimed that many people in the Chinese mainland can’t afford…
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One Chinese Gamer Has Kept His Game Point Cards For Over 10 Years
Pre-paid charge cards for video games have been around for ages. They had them for NeoPets, they had them for Nexon games such as Gunbound, and they’re super useful—but only until the points run out. But for one Chinese gamer, his collection of old point cards may just win him a brand new smartphone. Chinese…
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Chinese Game Company Wants To Sell Raw Pork
You read that headline right. Chinese internet giant NetEase will soon be selling pork. NetEase operates Blizzard’s World of WarCraft in China. It funds and publishes its own online massively multiplayer online role-playing games, on top of running a highly trafficked internet news portal. It’s also into the business of raising organic free range pigs.…
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Kotaku EastA Look At China’s Dizzying “Rubik’s Cube” Buildings
Architecture is art. Some buildings are just cool to look at. Others are mesmerising and hypnotic, like one compound in East China’s Jiangsu province, which has been dubbed by Chinese netizens as the “magical Rubik’s compound”. Located in the Kunshan district of Suzhou in east China’s Jiangsu province, the residential compound on Kong Xiang road…
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Kotaku EastTaiwan Holds a Superhero Race
Over the weekend, the Avengers assembled in Taiwan! Well… sort of. This past weekend in Taipei, thousands of superhero fans and running enthusiasts hit the ground running in a 5k marathon. That’s right, thousands of people gathered in Taipei’s MaChangTing Memorial Park to take part in what is probably better described as a fun run…
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It’s The Snacktaku Fried Insect Special
I seriously hope you’re not eating breakfast while reading this post. In fact, if you are, I apologize. Now… On with the show! Er… article. China’s known for a myriad of things. Communism, pandas, Chinese food. On that last thing, Chinese food—it covers literally everything. With over 5000 years of history, China’s culinary culture is…
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Chinese Internet Slang May Destabilize Country, Says One Official
Internet slang for the most part is, well, meaningless but interesting slang. In China, one phrase from the giant internet lexicon that is Chinese slang has been called out as a phrase that may cause the social apocalypse, at least according to the vice-president of Guangzhou’s Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. The phrase in question,…
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Kotaku EastAngry White Guy Confuses Chinese Gamers
Recently a video appeared online across Chinese social media creating a buzz among Chinese gamers. The video, features a Caucasian speaking fluent Mandarin angrily at Chinese gamers. That’s right, an angry white man shouting at Chinese gamers in Chinese. In the video, the man opens the by swearing at C.G.P, Chinese game players. He then…
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Robots, Modern Art, Star Wars Collide in Beijing’s Glass Pyramid
By now, with all the press about China, you’ve probably have some idea in your heads that certain Chinese cities are like the real life version of the dystopian cyberpunk worlds of Blade Runner and Star Wars. Sadly, China isn’t all that advanced, but one building in Beijing definitely is. Located on the border between…
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Chinese Politicians Ordered To Stop Playing With Their Phones
It’s that time of year again. The time when the Chinese Communist Party holds its annual meeting of the nation’s big wigs. However unlike previous years, the communist party has put out a warning to the attendees: pay attention or you may lose your job. The annual meeting of the National People’s Congress of China…
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The Jackie Chan Licensed Facebook Game You Never Heard Of
Chinese action star Jackie Chan has appeared hawking a number of things in his life. He’s even had a very popular children’s cartoon show named after himself. This cartoon even spawn a video game—but today, we’re here to talk about one of the lesser known Jackie Chan titles, Jackie Chan Martial Arts Legend Chan, who…
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You Can Make $40 A Day Cosplaying in China
Cosplay is huge in China and Taiwan. It’s become an industry in itself, where young men and women get paid to dress up. However, as glorious as it is to get paid to for cosplay, one girl’s tale reveals that cosplayers in China may not be making as much money as one would think. In…
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Kotaku EastPower Rangers Make the Best Diplomats
Taiwan has had fairly good relations with Japan—that’s taking into account that Japan once occupied the island. To celebrate and to strengthen these relations, Japan’s NGO Earth non government organization recently sent a group of volunteers to the island. The volunteers were Power Rangers. As reported by various Taiwanese media, NGO Earth visited North Taiwan’s…
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Chinese Government Wants to Ban Video Game Commercials On Kids’ TV
Video games in China have long had a bad rep, so it’s no wonder that the newest revision to commercial advertising regulations in China features video games. The only problem with these new regulations: they’re targeting something that, at this time, doesn’t really exist. Posted on the State Council’s legal affairs website last week, the…
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Kotaku EastChinese Robot Will Decimate Your Flappy Bird Score
I know, I know, you’re all probably sick of Flappy Bird by now. Flappy Bird this, Flappy Bird that. I promise you that this story, despite its focus on Flappy Bird, is different. This story has a robot! Late last week, two Chinese developers, Liu Yang and Shi Xuekun, released a video of the duo…
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Beijing’s New Swanky Internet Cafe Has Insane Fees
Internet cafe’s in China are a dime a dozen. However, as China has grown more affluent with the times, so has its, well, internet cafes. One newly opened club in Beijing might be the most ridiculous one yet. Ridiculous in an expensive way. Recently opened in Beijing’s Sanlitun entertainment district, the new Cuz Club sports…
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