Jan 22 2009
Your “Shanzhai” security website
山寨
We are so going Shanzhai. A few new names for our website:
- Toasercuity
- Dachon Dachevn
- Wasteood
- Ntell Fusion
“A property developer in Nanjing, hoping to lure business and buzz, set up storefront facades with logos such as “Haagon-Bozs,” “Pizza Huh,” “Bucksstar Coffee,” “KFG” and “McDnoald’s.” Images of what became known as “Shanzhai Street” spread rapidly online.
Once a term used to suggest something cheap or inferior, shanzhai now suggests to many a certain Chinese cleverness and ingenuity. Shanzhai culture “is from the grass roots and for the grass roots,” says Han Haoyue, a media critic in Beijing, who sees it as a means of self-expression. “It gives people another choice and the possibility of resisting dominant cultural values.”
6 Responses to “Your “Shanzhai” security website”
Heh, well i get the total security, dancho danchev’s blog and the intel fusion one….
but what is number 3? wastewood?
Wasteood, is Eastwood. Just moved the E and W. He is one of the first people to join our happy little family when we had three visitors a day. Those three visits were normally myself, Jumper and Eastwood.
His blog is lisited under our blogroll.
This reminds me a little of “verlan” in French, where the ending and beginning sounds are transposed but then, its more a kind of code: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verlan
[...] all Shanzhai’s are created [...]
За статью большое спасибо, все по делу, достаточно много кто это уже использует
No problem, thank you for visiting!