Shanzai [alt. sp. shanzhai or Shan Zai] literally means "
Mountain Bandit or Fortress " in Mandarin Chinese. It is a phenomenon that goes far beyond the simplistic view of “copycat products” and in popular Chinese cultural usage is used to describe a vendor who operates a business without observing traditional rules or practices -- often resulting in innovative and unusual products or business models. Reading the stories on this website will open your eyes to a whole new business phenomenon that is affecting all of our lives whether we realize it or not.
Shanzai.com tracks the products, trends and reach of China's local to global tech culture. Shanzai.com’s writing team is led by its editor-in-chief “Tai-Pan” or Timothy James Brown an IT executive working in Asia for the past 13 years.
Shanzai.com includes
Shanzai Studios as part of its network of websites. Shanzai Studios is an East meets West “Social Production” business that is revolutionizing the way consumers create and purchase products tailored to their own tastes, budgets and style needs.
Shanzai Studios brings your great ideas to market!
You can contact Shanzai.com
here .
Who's quoting and following our site?... over 3,086 other business and technology publications.
谁在关注Shanzai.com?……超过3,086家商业媒体和科技媒体
Where do our site visitors come from? The US, China and over 194 different countries.
访客都从哪来? 美国,中国等194多个国家
What do our visitors say?
他们来Shanzai.com最想知道的是什么?
Anyone know if this device is multilingual and where one could obtain it when it is released? Nice, but where are these Smartbook? I can't wait! Please sell me one in tha u.s. por favor I am thinking about importing these devices into my country... I wonder if you could kindly let us know price of one notebook with sim card for 3G and TV card? anyone can email me the manufacturer and distributor of [shanzhai C200 netbook]?
Who's copying our news in China?
在中国谁转载了Shanzai.com的文章?
http://tech.163.com/digi/09/1009/08/5L5V23DJ00161MAH.html
http://netbook.zol.com.cn/146/1463447.html
http://bbs.pcw.com.cn/thread-5114210-1-1.html
http://www.ce.cn/cysc/tech/sm/xp/200910/12/t20091012_19764941.shtml
http://news.hx355.com/show/2009/10/09/MzU3MDl3d3cuaHgzNTUuY29tbmV3cw==.html
http://bbs.sxgdtv.com/html/19/n-82019-2.html
http://www.ityesno.cn/notebook/13604.html
http://3glife.mop.com/note/3332.shtml
http://it.newssc.org/system/2009/10/09/012361535.shtml
http://xy.jxgdw.com/Html/Digital/2009/109/091099196DAK72BA5C6KEH63G08IJ.html
http://www.pc377.com/html/hq/swb/2009/1011/56.html
http://www.ququ8.com/2009/1014/3.html
http://www.oldcp.com/Html/Information/news/nb/1649920091010085947.html
http://bbs.cfan.com.cn/thread-999985-1-1.html
http://www.kc8866.cn/article.php?id=681
http://google.org.cn/posts/android-mid-smit-mid-560-leaked.html
http://forum.eet-cn.com/FORUM_POST_10013_1200131869_0.HTM
http://www.expreview.com/?action-viewnews-itemid-8307
http://news1.secutimes.com/20090909/32/24297431.shtml
http://news.wangmeng.cn/detailNews/766-chinese-culture-spread-to-the-united-states-cottage
http://www.yzzk.com/cfm/Content_Archive.cfm?Channel=nt&Path=2222564742/42ntc.cfm
http://hardware.solidot.org/article.pl?sid=09/10/04/1332211
http://times.hinet.net/times/article.do?newsid=2257433&option=infotech
http://engchinesedev.weblogsinc.com/2009/07/21/keepin-it-real-fake-part-ccxxv-fashion-a10-netbook-strikes-a/
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