{"id":1383,"date":"2009-03-06T09:41:22","date_gmt":"2009-03-06T16:41:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/?p=1383"},"modified":"2015-09-26T11:11:09","modified_gmt":"2015-09-26T18:11:09","slug":"tech-trend-shanzhai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/tech-trend-shanzhai\/","title":{"rendered":"Tech Trend: Shanzhai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bunniestudios.com\/blog\/\">bunnie<\/a> writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB123257138952903561.html\">shanzhai<\/a> of China are a tech trend to keep an eye on. Typically dismissed by popular press as simply the \u201ccopycat barons from China\u201d, I think they may have something in common with Hewlett and Packard or Jobs and Wozniak back when they were working out of garages. I\u2019ve heard quite a few stories about the shanzhai while on my most recent trip to China, some of which I will share here.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bunniestudios.com\/blog\/?p=284\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/bunniestudios.com\/blog\/images\/gktr_shanzai.jpg\" alt=\"Shanzai\" width=\"300\" height=\"303\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bunniestudios.com\/blog\/?p=284\">bunnie\u2019s blog \u00bb Blog Archive \u00bb Tech Trend: Shanzhai<\/a><\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.makezine.com\/archive\/2009\/02\/shanzai.html?CMP=OTC-0D6B48984890\">makezine<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>bunnie writes: The shanzhai of China are a tech trend to keep an eye on. Typically dismissed by popular press as simply the \u201ccopycat barons from China\u201d, I think they may have something in common with Hewlett and Packard or Jobs and Wozniak back when they were working out of garages. I\u2019ve heard quite a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/tech-trend-shanzhai\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tech Trend: Shanzhai<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[177,178,182],"class_list":["post-1383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electronics","tag-bunnie","tag-china","tag-makers"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pioCd-mj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2952,"url":"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/the-tech-junkies-build-a-wifi-radio-video\/","url_meta":{"origin":1383,"position":0},"title":"The Tech Junkies Build a Wifi Radio (Video)","author":"Jeff","date":"May 26, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"In this episode of The Tech Junkies, Ben and Eric show how to hack an Asus WL-520gu wireless router into a music playback device. 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