This week’s msn interview is with Fili. He’s the man behind Chinalyst. Chinalyst is a community for independent English China related blogging. He studies Chinese language and culture with a few other courses in multi-culture research and East Asia business in the East-Asia department at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He also works as an IT consultant in the field of security. The Chinalyst website was build by himself.
Let’s start the interview. Can you tell me a bit about yourself and also about your China fascination?
My China curiosity started when I left to Asia on 2005. After traveling for a while in SE-Asia, I came across some Chinese influences in Vietnam.
Hearing about Chinese culture from fellow travelers and visiting a few places with Chinatown it became obvious that there’s something about Chinese culture that attracts me.
I ended up studying Chinese in Taiwan for over a semester, and then it became a significant part of my life. I adore Asia.
Can you pinpoint what it is in Chinese culture that attracts you? (more…)
I’m starting a new series of interviews with people/companies behind China related websites.
Some time ago Daniel from Enjoyclassifieds.com contacted me for a listing in MyChinaStart.com and as I was curious about the website and the company behind it, I asked him if he would be willing to tell more. He was.
Enjoyclassifieds.com is a classifieds website aimed at Shanghai that weekly publishes a print version with a selection of the online ads. You can pick up a copy in many Expat oriented locations like bars, cafe’s and city supermarket branches.
Enjoyclassifieds is part of Enjoy China, the company responsible for the Shanghai Enjoycard. Currently there are working 33 people for Enjoy China.
The Enjoycard gives you discounts in 230 venues in Shanghai and some in Hong Kong and Beijing. Other activities of Enjoy are credit card and bank privilege programs for companies like MasterCard
Daniel Borin is one of the partners and his main role is as a sales director. Having worked in the IT industry in Australia for 7 years he was ready for a change and ended up in China. We started talking first about the Enjoycard and after that their new website Enjoyclassifieds.
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First the news. We’re cleaning up the latest bugs from the “Suggest A Link” feature.
You can now suggest websites by going to the relevant page, click “Suggest a Link” in the footer and submit your suggestion. Make sure you select the right section you think the website belongs in.
Some good new websites have been added.
I like to point out 2 I found today.
Two great tools, add-ons for Internet explorer & Firefox have been added in the learn chinese page.
Both tools annotate Chinese text. After the installation and activating them all you have to do is go to a page with simplified Chinese and hoover over the text.
The best one so far is , besides that it is free (the other, Hanzibar, has a free and a paid version), it is also a tad better. Perapera-kun only works in Firefox, and as we speak of it, that is also a far better browser anyway. If you haven’t installed this browser yet, you should.
If you have any link suggestions or other comments let us know. If you think more topics should be added, feel free to email us at mychinastart at mychinastart.com
