Tag: Beijing Street Style

in “View” go to “Character Encoding” and select “Unicode”

Some things are inevitable. Recently, I saw some photos from Stylites on Taobao.com’s “Men’s Channel”, but my consent was not given first, and no attribution was made. The title of the post is “Trendy Beijing Guys in the Eyes of a Foreigner [using mildly pejorative term]”. Also, many of these pics have appeared on www.thebeijinger.com and That’s Beijing, a local magazine for which I formally do freelance work. I can understand that Taobao’s Men’s Channel might be interested in my pictures. However, I would hope that they would at least mention the origin of the photos. I gave the editor an email discussing this issue, but, after several days, he has still not responded.

有的事情是不可避免的。最近我在淘宝网男人频道上看到我在Stylites上发表过的一些照片，但是这些转载既没有事先征求过我的许可，也没有注明照片的出处。资讯标题是“老外眼中的北京潮男”。还有，这些照片曾经在与我有正式合作关系的杂志That’s Beijing及其网站www.thebeijinger.com刊载过。淘宝网男人频道关注我的照片，这我个能理解。但是希望他们在这样做的时候，至少能够提到照片的出处。我给了他们的编辑发过email谈这个问题，但是已经好几天了，他们都没有给我任何回复。

in “View” go to “Character Encoding” and select “Unicode”

in “View” go to “Character Encoding” and select “Unicode”

I will now be providing Chinese translation of Stylites, though there has not yet been time to make a formal announcement of this change.

On some browsers, Chinese appears as squiggles. In this case in “View” go to “Character Encoding” and select “Unicode”. This will fix the problem.
在不能看清楚中文的情况下，你能在“查看”的“编码”选“unicode” – 好像这个可以解决乱码的问题。不能用“中文简体字”。

I wasn’t in China this time, but I’m sure it was an overwhelming experience for all those who were. With its fireworks and blasts, in the past I found that Chinese New Year brought me close to experiencing a warzone. So I hope everyone who was in China enjoyed the carnage.

Thanks for your continued support despite less frequent updates over the last week. In Iran, I have had much less access to the internet. I often connect through an old-fashioned dial-up modem. Keep checking though; the updates will still be daily. Thanks.

Yep, quite a distance from Beijing. Not much time to update now. I was expecting people to be more conservatively dressed. There are a lot of brightly colored scarves with dyed hair revealed in front. The men wear suprisingly tight jeans.

Please check my column and street style photos in the February issue of That’s Beijing! It is hot off the press!

Updates have been less frequent in the last couple of weeks because I have been very busy with my day job, and because the frigid weather reduces the number of stylish people.

Over the next three weeks updates will likely be still more sporadic. I will be traveling through the Middle East over and may have limited access to the internet during visits to remote historic sites, probably while staying in hostels lacking wireless. When I have the chance, I will post photos I have taken recently.
Hits on Stylites have spiked recently and I recommend that all new viewers enjoy the archives. Street photos are arranged by area in the categories to the right. The best photos are to be found in “Nanluoguxiang” and “Xidan” though “Dongsi” also has some good ones.

I’m on a company trip at moment, so I haven’t really been able to update the site. Please do start checking back as there will be new photos soon.

China Daily profiled Stylites and me in its lifestyle section. I think the article is quite good, but I look like a bit silly in the photo. I’m glad they included this quote: “With people in China, there is not much of a knowledge of rules, [so] if they don’t care, why should I?”

Happy New Year!
I took a few style photos at the Acupuncture party out in 798 and I will be posting those here today, as well as some other interesting material.