<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/188f537f-b45c-498e-b547-221dadc73f07/229CD320-F7D6-4883-AFCA-03731C3E31BD/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/malcolmmoore/blog/2009/02/05/more_shanzhai_madness" href="http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/malcolmmoore/blog/2009/02/05/more_shanzhai_madness" style="font-size: 11px;">blogs.telegraph.co.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/malcolmmoore/blog/2009/02/05/more_shanzhai_madness"><H2 class="oneBlogTitle"> <A href="http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/malcolmmoore/blog/2009/02/05/more_shanzhai_madness"><SPAN>More Shanzhai madness!</SPAN></A> </H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/malcolmmoore/blog/2009/02/05/more_shanzhai_madness"><P>I <A href="http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/malcolmmoore/blog/2009/01/15/china_shanzhais_the_humvee_" target="_blank">recently blogged about shanzhai</A>, the do-it-yourself craze that has swept through China.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/malcolmmoore/blog/2009/02/05/more_shanzhai_madness"><P>But then some shanzhai items are truly jaw-dropping. Like this one:</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/malcolmmoore/blog/2009/02/05/more_shanzhai_madness"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/blogs.telegraph.co.uk/img/FF369010-D28B-4827-B5A4-B0C50CA1A6F0" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/malcolmmoore/blog/2009/02/05/more_shanzhai_madness"><P>This is allegedly a home-made respirator, made by peasants in Anyang in Henan province, out of a television, a bicycle and an inflatable ball. Allegedly it was effective enough to keep its patient, a young girl, alive for more than a month.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/malcolmmoore/blog/2009/02/05/more_shanzhai_madness"><P>Talking of Danwei, they have uncovered a <A href="http://www.danwei.org/beijing/black_shanzhai_village_near_be.php" target="_blank">"Black Shanzhai" village</A>, where you can buy shanzhai donkey meat. I don't even want to think about what that might be.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/malcolmmoore/blog/2009/02/05/more_shanzhai_madness"><P>The question is, why has shanzhai become such a craze? I guess with 300 million internet users in China surfing around looking for entertainment, it provides a good laugh now and again.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/malcolmmoore/blog/2009/02/05/more_shanzhai_madness"><P>A lot of people also seem proud of Chinese ingenuity, and possibly also China's ability to cock a snook at the West by ripping off our products and "improving" them.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/229CD320-F7D6-4883-AFCA-03731C3E31BD/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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