Mandarin

In China, Imitation Is the Sincerest Form of Flattering Google

Sky Canaves, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on January 29, 2010 at 11:08 am PT

In case you’ve missed it, China’s irrepressible shanzhai enthusiasts have been at it again, using imitation to pay tribute to Google. Since Google’s Jan. 12 announcement that it might withdraw from the Chinese market, two knockoff Web sites have appeared in China bearing an intentionally uncanny resemblance to Google sites.

IPhone Arrives in China, but Where Is Pleco?

Sky Canaves, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on November 2, 2009 at 11:14 am PT

For students of the Chinese language, there is one electronic dictionary application that seems to stand in a class of its own, made by a small New York-based software company called Pleco. Certain language learners (myself included) have been known to carry otherwise useless (and outdated) Palm Pilots for the sole purpose of using the Pleco dictionary.