How Smart Are China’s Kids?
As I struggled through day after day of greeting people in Mandarin (of which I know only a handful of words), I was constantly surprised by the number of kids who could speak with me in English. Some...
View ArticleGoing to China
I am off to Shanghai next week, and greet it, as I greet any overseas trip … with a mixture of excitement and trepidation. One of my favourite writers, Helene Cixous, explains that she "shivers" every...
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It Just Keeps Getting Better
Some time ago I saw a live performance show by a troupe called "The Happy Sideshow". Their motto is "it just keeps getting better" — often said as a hand or arm is placed into a dingo or bear trap (or...
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The Challenge of Translation
I remember meeting a translator at university. At the time he was working on a fairly heavy translation (to English) of a contemporary French philosopher’s work (it was one of Gilles Deleuze’s works)...
View ArticleChinesePod
China has been in my blood since childhood. A family friend tried (in vain) to teach me some of the Chinese language when I was about 10 years old — it was not that I was not interested — it was that I...
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Number of Chinese Bloggers Exceeds Population of Australia
When I was last in China, I spent quite a lot of time with kids like the ones in this photo. I was attending an exhibition in the holiday resort of Hangzhou (which also happens to be one of the...
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FanFou — It’s Chinese for Twitter
For many who work with social media, Twitter has become an indispensible tool. It allows us to keep in passive contact with our connected friends no matter where we or they may be located. And while...
View ArticleYouth Mobile Trends in China 2010
When I worked in a marketing agency, I spent a lot of time working on youth brands in China and across Asia-Pacific. I remember standing in Shanghai and being amazed at what was slapping me in the face...
View ArticleAsian Connections: Embracing the Digital Trajectory
Fifty four percent of the world’s population lives in Asia. That’s 3.7 billion people. And according to We Are Social, Singapore’s recent report, Asia is home to over 1 billion internet users – 80% of...
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The Shift from Mobile First to Mobile Only
Every year the mobile marketing industry boldly announces that THIS will be the “year of mobile”. In 2005, Sony Ericsson, O2 and Samsung added new features and capabilities to their mobile handsets,...
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