You may have heard of Sa Dingding before. Shanghaiist wrote about her a long time ago, and fans of “world music” will have known about her for quite some time. As I understand it, she’s only recently been catching on in China in a big... ...full story at Sinosplice
from Sinosplice on Tue, Sep 15 2009
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| 24 Apr 08 |
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Sa Dingding - Chinas Popstar singt auf Tibetisch »
YouTube video Sorry, poor audio/Leider schlechte Tonqualität.
Sa Dingding ist eine mongolische Nomadin. In ihrer Heimat China ist sie ein Superstar - und das, obwohl, vielleicht aber auch, weil sie einige ihrer Lieder auf Tibetisch singt. Auch ihre Videoclips spiele... |
| 21 Nov 09 |
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Catching that Pepsi Spirit…. » Granite Studio “Catching that Pepsi Spirit” was posted this time last year on the China Beat (back when that site was still blocked), but it’s worth reading if you missed it. Anybody who wants to understand the twisted intersection of attitude... |
| 05 Jan 09 |
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NYT Reminds Us Westerners Not Much Better Than Chinese » CN Reviews Richard @ The Peking Duck, one of my long-time RSS subscriptions, recently linked to a New York Times’ piece titled “The End of the Financial World as We Know It” written by Michael Lewis, blessing it as “the single best... |
| 22 Jun 08 |
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My God » Sinosplice It’s Euro Cup time, and as soccer fans, the Chinese are loving it. This punny headline caught my eye: “欧，MY GOD！” 欧 is a character most often used to mean “Europe,” but it sounds like the English inte... |
| 23 Apr 07 |
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The Uber-Artiste » Black China Hand “I don’t accept the ways of Chinese cartoonists — most of them spend 10 or 20 years just drawing and drawing,” he said. “That’s not what I want to do. I write novels, I sing music.” A cartoon for China’s n... |
| 04 Dec 08 |
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Scrapped - at the Atlantic » Shanghai Scrap The Atlantic has just posted “Scrapped,” a brief dispatch I wrote from an interesting, emergency pow-wow between China’s biggest scrap importers, and the world’s largest scrap exporters, back in November. It also includes a slide... |
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