#chinese automobiles

[azuremallone]

[fortuneaday]

[1o1percentmilk]

Commission for a close friend \(•u•\)

[retropopcult]

"Portuguese-American communities in California. Main Street (East 14th at Callan) in San Leandro.".  With a rare Graham Hollywood automobile parked at the curb lower right.  Photographed April 1942 by Russell Lee for the Foreign Information Service of the U.S. Office of Coordinator of Information.

[diagnozabam]

Acțiunile Dongfeng cresc spectaculos pe fondul zvonurilor privind o fuziune cu Changan Auto

Acțiunile producătorului auto chinez Dongfeng Motor au înregistrat o creștere impresionantă de până la 85,8% pe bursa din Hong Kong, pe fondul speculațiilor privind o posibilă fuziune cu Changan Auto. Această evoluție vine după ce societatea-mamă, Dongfeng Motor Corporation, a anunțat un plan de restructurare, alimentând zvonurile despre o posibilă consolidare în industria auto chineză. 🔥…

[wolfman-al]

A Hongqi SUV seen at a shopping mall in Frankfurt. Appearantly they are now trying to sell in Germany/Europe, since the market of chinese politbuero members is a tad bit slim. Also, does anybody else think that it is ironic that a luxury car brand is called "Red Banner"?

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

"POLICE COURT HAPPENINGS AND DAILY REPORTS," Vancouver Daily World. October 7, 1912. Page 4. --- William McKay, 621 Seventh avenue west, was this morning injured by the elevator in a biscuit warehouse on Homer, at Drake, when he was cleaning the windows next to the shaft. McKay's back was hurt and his foot crushed. He was not seriously hurt, though his injuries justified a quick run in the ambulance to the hospital.

Lost His Cadillac. H. V. Peters, living in the Broughton apartments, left his auto at the door of the building last night. Intending to remove it later to the garage, but when Mr. Peters came out again he found that the car had vanished. The thief left no trace except the ruts of the wheels in the dust by the curb. It was a good dar, too.

Arrested in Victoria. C. Mureer was yesterday arrested in Victoria by the order of the local police force, who want him on a charge of stealing a suitcase and its contents from T. Calhoun, a local teamster. Murcer will arrive from the Capital City today and answer the charge in court tomorrow. Thought He Saw Something. Seeing steam issue from the rear window of a department store at 60 Hastings street east yesterday afternoon, Donald Blynd thought it was smoke, rang in an alarm to the firemen and then waited to see a gallant battle with the flames. But the fire boys, when they entered the building, convinced Blynd that he only saw steam coming from a waste pipe.

Raid the Blind Pigs. Deputy Mulhern sent his stalwarts on the hunt for blind pigs yesterday. and said stalwarts went and located a half-dozen alleged little sinks of iniquity in which intoxicants of one brand or another were sold. Evidence was secured against the men. Their cases will be called tomorrow.

Stole Chinamen's Clothes Some thief entered a rooming house at 131 Shore street last night and stole the working clothes of Charley Loo Kee and Lou Yuen, two Chinamen who slept downstairs. The thief carried away about everything there was in the room, outside of the furniture. His depredations will amount to approximately $100.

Waited a Month. Edmund Evans, who speeded his auto along Granville street more than month ago, was this morning fined $20 by Magistrate South. The speeding, if speeding it was, occurred on Granville, at Robson. Evans said that his car skidded when he applied the brakes.

Could Not Understand. Mr. Swelberg could not understand what it was all about when the officer told him to move on, and this morning in court it was the same thing. So they will get an interpreter and help him out tomorrow when his case 18 called. In the meantime ball of $10 is allowed Swelberg, who raised the money from the corner of one of his pockets.

He Drank Firewater. Louis Capilano, scion of a proud Indian chieftain, imbibed too freely of high-power water and misbehaved. They charged him with being in a state of intoxication, proved it up on him this morning and fined him six bux.

To Examine His Head. James O'Donald, charged with assault by his own wife, asked the court what he was talking about this morning when the charge was read to him. They thought there was a blur on the mental pictures he forms, and so let him talk. He said some funny things, rambled like the description of the gowns worn at a ball, and was then sent to the doctor to get his head examined and cross-examined.

Sent Out of Town. Mrs. A. Y. Keely, or Kelly, was today ordered to get out of town. She was one of the women who were picked up in the Pender street rooming house last week when Wilson dived head first out of the window and Detective Tisdale went after him. The woman pleaded guilty to vagrancy. She leaves tonight.

No More Fortune Telling. There must be no more fortune telling, declared Magistrate Shaw. A lady who was haled before Magistrate Shaw today pleaded guilty and was fined $25 and costs. The magistrate then uttered the warning to fortune tellers.

[vintagegeekculture]

Actress Rosamund Kwan is not only of Manchu ethnicity, but descended from a noble clan who often married into the imperial family. Her last name, Guan or Kwan (關) is a Chinese variation of the Manchu clan name Gūwalgiya, who were of the White Banner (Manchu society was divided into eight military-social banners). Her clan can be traced to the 12th Century and the Jin Dynasty, and one of her ancestors was Fiongdon, one of the Five Companions of Nurhaci, founder of the Manchu Dynasty. Fiongdon, who had the Mongol title of jargūci (lawgiver), fell out of favor for attempting to cast spells on his enemies. Another of her relatives, Ronglu, was Chief of the Grand Council under the Empress Dowager, and was the grandfather of Puyi, the last Emperor of China, an automobile driving homosexual eccentric.

Though one of the five main ethnic groups of China represented on the five stars of the Chinese flag, most Manchu since the fall of the imperial age have blended into Chinese culture and do not speak their own language, though there is presently a revival of Manchu culture and language in China. Even in the imperial age, Manchu preferred to write in Chinese.

[zvaigzdelasas]

Hydrogen-powered trucks are expected to reach life-cycle cost parity with their fossil-fuel-burning peers in China by 2027 even without the aid of subsidies, a milestone which the world’s biggest producer and consumer of the zero-emission energy source, seeks to achieve eight years ahead of Europe.

This will push forward the country’s ambition to dominate the market for hydrogen fuel cells in the transport sector as Beijing’s enabling environment starts paying off, an industry executive said.[...]

“China has developed a world-leading industry in commercial vehicle applications for hydrogen fuel cell technology, with enterprises ranging from upstream raw materials to downstream products over the past decade,” said Robin Lin, chairman and president of Refire Group, a Chinese supplier of hydrogen fuel cell technologies.[...]

China has stepped up its game this year with the central and local authorities releasing a variety of hydrogen-related policies and incentives, following the release of its first national-level guidelines for the hydrogen energy industry in 2023.

Nearly a third of its end-2023 fleet of 18,000 hydrogen fuel cell vehicles were sold last year alone, according to data from the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers, indicating the gathering pace. In a further sign of accelerating offtake, China targets to have at least 50,000 units on the road by 2025, according to its national plan.

According to Lin, China has seen significant reduction in the manufacturing cost of hydrogen fuel cell systems, which account for roughly half the cost of a hydrogen vehicle. The cost has dived from over 30,000 yuan per kilowatt in 2015 to less than 4,000 yuan per kilowatt now.[...]

“In transport, heavy-duty trucks could be the first to achieve successful commercialisation of hydrogen fuel cell technology,” he said.[...]

In China, high-purity hydrogen generated as a by-product from industrial processes, such as Shanxi province, is around 25 to 40 yuan per kilogram at local hydrogen refuelling stations, while high-purity hydrogen in other regions, such as Shanghai, is around 50 to 70 yuan per kilogram at local hydrogen refuelling stations, according to Refire.

13 May 24

[lil-shiro]

More about Shi Wei (Tie Dou) - F1 Academy Shanghai Wild Card driver

Background Born in Baotou, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Shi Wei graduated from the Journalism Department of Ocean University of China. She holds a number of professional licenses, including the National Automobile Racing License B, Helicopter License, Motorboat License, and PADI Rescue Diver. 

In 2018 and started her own business in short video platform, founding Yunshi Media Culture Co. With extreme outdoor sports as the core, she popularized outdoor extreme sports through new media platforms, and gradually accumulated rich experience in racing. She is not an academy driver and started driving when she was already an adult.

From what I've found, she's born in 1997, so ineligible for a full-time F1A seat.

Racing

F4

She made her F4 debut in 2023 during round 2 of the F4 Chinese Championship, joining Vivian Siu as the second woman in the series. She immediately made her mark, scoring a ninth place and two sixth place finishes at Ningbo International Circuit, on her first weekend.

She returned for Round 4 in Zhuhai, where she again scored points in three out of the four races, completing the season with 22 points over just the two rounds, winning the Best Rookie Award.

Shi Wei returned in 2024 for another partial campaign, racing in both the Shanghai rounds. She equalled her best finish with a sixth place at the season opener and returned to the points-paying positions with a ninth place result in Round 4 race 4. She finished 19th out of 45 drivers.

Other racing She also participated in other championships like the Toyota Gazoo Racing GR86 Cup and the China Endurance Championship.

On September 13-15, 2024, Shi Wei won the Challenge Cup at the Shanghai race.

In 2024, she also finished third in the Chinese Formula Grand Prix (CFGP).

Race suit design

Shi Wei designed her suit to incorporate cheongsam elements into the racing suit, embellished with blue and white porcelain patterns.

"I chose Zhou Guanyu's No. 24 for my car number, which is also a kind of inheritance," Shi Wei said‍

By including elements such as auspicious clouds and phoenixes, Shi aims to reflect Chinese femininity and cultural richness while adhering to the competitive requirements of motorsport.

The design team executed four revisions in just three days to achieve a final product that resonates with both heritage and performance.

Shi even humorously noted a desire to incorporate elements from the animated film ‘Ne Zha 2’, indicating her commitment to intertwining pop culture and tradition in her representation.

Sources: 1, 2, 3, 4 Her bilili account

[theladysunami]

As someone who doesn’t speak a lick of Chinese (and really struggles to distinguish tones), I have some question for any fluent Chinese speakers.

It’s a common trope in SVSSS fanfiction where Shen Qingqiu and/or Shang Qinghua use terms for modern technology and the PIDW natives around them are puzzled by it.

What sort of homophones (or near homophones) are there for words like “airplane,” “cell phone,” “television,” “refrigerator,” “microwave,” and so forth? In other words, what might PIDW natives think they’re hearing while trying to listen in on the transmigrators? Are there any (near) homophones that depend on the dialect being spoken?

If the PIDW natives saw the words written, rather than heard them, what meanings might they come up with based on the characters used?

I can guess at some possible interpretations by looking things up in Yabla’s Chinese English Pinyin Dictionary, but they’re rough guesses at best.

I’d be delighted if someone actually knowledgeable could provide some insight on what Mobie-jun and Luo Binghe might think their husbands are talking about when they hear them use words and phrases “from their hometown.”

Edit: Apparently my homophone guesses weren't nearly as terrible as I'd feared, so I'm going to edit this and stick some of them under a read more for fun.

Native speakers please feel free to bully me if I screw up!

Airplane (飞机, fēi jī) "Flying Machine" 飞, fēi: "to fly" ● 机, jī: "machine" Possible Homophones: ● "Flying Chicken" (飞鸡) We definitely need fics where everyone thinks SQQ insists on calling SQH a chicken for some reason.

Cell Phone (手机, shǒu jī) "Hand Machine" 手, shǒu: "hand," "to hold" ● 机, jī: "machine" Possible Homophones: ● "Head/Chief Chicken" (首鸡) ● "Hand Muscle" (手肌) Does Shizun need a hand massage, or miss the "top-dog" chicken he grew up with? Who knows!

Telephone (电话, diàn huà) "Electric Talk" 电, diàn: "electric" ● 话, huà: "language," "speech," "talk" Possible Homophones: ● "Palace Talk" (殿话) ● "Shop Talk" (店话) The most likely guesses seem to be that the phrase has something to do with situational modes of speech. How one speaks in a palace hall, or how one speaks in an inn/shop.

Television (电视, diàn shì) "Electric View" 电, diàn: "electric" ● 视, shì: "to look at," "to regard" Possible Homophones: ● "Court Examination," "Imperial Exam" (殿试) ● "Think on/Remember a Matter," "Worry About Things" (惦事) Why demon lord husbands would pine after imperial exams is anyone's guess.

Refrigerator (冰箱, bīng xiāng) "Ice Box" 冰, bīng: "ice" ● 箱, xiāng: "box" No homophones needed. Meaning is obvious. Huzzah!

Microwave (微波炉, wēi bō lú) "Tiny Wave Stove" 微, wēi: "tiny" ● 波, bō: "wave," "ripple" ● 炉, lú: "stove," "furnace" Possible Homophones: ● "Power Sowing Furnace" (威播炉) No great options here, so they'd likely assume it's some special pill furnace variety.

Car/Automobile (汽车, qì chē) "Steam Vehicle" 汽, qì: "steam," "vapor" ● 车, chē: "vehicle," "chariot" (archaic) Possible Homophones: ● "Qi Chariot" (气车) ● "Near Vehicle" (汔车) A Qi powered chariot sounds pretty neat actually. The phrase could mean something like "whatever vehicle is nearest" though? Or a short range vehicle? (Google translate interpreted 汔车 as "car racing").

Courtesy of @hopingforbrain

airplane's full name can be heard as 'beating (up) flying chickens to the sky'. not in the wanking way, but actually throwing hands with the poultry.

[ruhua-langblr]

小红书 Vocab

小红书 (also referred to as xiaohongshu or XHS) is a Chinese image-based social media platform. It is a combination of the feed, likes, shopping, and video aspects of instagram, with the ~aesthetics~ and majority female audience of pintrest. I've grown really fond of it and found that it's algorithm is better than instagram and MUCH better than pintrest with giving me content I enjoy.

I'm going to offer some vocab that is either unique to the platform, or slang that is found on the platform (esp in bullet comments). I don't want this to be too long, so some terms may be omitted if they are found on many other social media apps

APP 小红书: Literally "Little Red Book". Probably a play off of Chairman Mao's book of speeches and writings which is also referred to as the Little Red Book. The app is not at all political, but more so trying to evoke the "essentiality" and "knowledge" aspect of the term. 笔记: Notes. XHS's name for its posts 收藏: Favorites. Separate from likes, these are bookmarked collections. This and Likes can be hidden 赞过: Likes. Notes that you "heart" will appear here. 关注: Notes from people you follow 发现: Discovery tab 附近: Recent notes

CONTENT 直播: Live-Streams 美甲: Nail Art 穿搭: Style 美食: Food 发型: Hairstyling 头像: Avatars/Profile Pictures 动漫: Animation and Comics 彩妆: Makeup 壁纸: Wallpapers 绘画: Drawing/Art 护肤: Skincare 影视: Film/TV 游行: Travel 减肥: Weight Loss 家居: Home 家装: Interior Design 学习: Studying 读书: Reading 情感: Romance 攝影: Photography 手工: Crafts 文化: Culture 游戏: Video Games 音乐: Music 舞蹈: Dance 搞笑: Comedy 明星: Stars 文具手: Stationary 校园生活: School Life 心里: Psychology 科学科普: Science 艺术: Art 社科: Social Sciences 萌龙: Cute 综艺: Variety 箱包: Handbags 潮鞋: Sneakers 健体塑型: Bodybuilding 职场: Office 婚礼: Wedding 汽车: Automobiles 潮玩手办: Collectable Figures 母婴: Parenting 机车: Motorbikes 户外: Outdoors 运动: Sports 露营: Camping COMMENTS (Things you'll see in tags/descriptions/bullet comments) PLOG: Picture blog. Usually like a blog, but with photos/photo collage (also sometimes vlogs get this tag even though they're videos) 爱自己的100种方式: Originally from a feature on Douyin that would give a "treat yourself" style prompt if you comment this phrase 泰酷辣: Cool. Took off from this meme. “太酷啦” 上岸: Similar to "Goals". Usually posted to applaud an achievement/amazing life experience 巨: Super. Usually used in describing really tasty food “巨巨巨好吃” cos: Cosplay emo: The original meaning—emotional. More often used to mean a depressed mood than the style/subculture 磕: to ship a couple (cp) For the Lesbians t: Tomboy/masc lesbian (Sub-types include 铁t，奶t，娘t, 爷t, 长发t, 短发t) p: Femme lesbian (p said to come from "Pretty girl" or “婆”） h: neither femme nor masc/futch le/les/啦啦: Lesbian 双女主: F/F couple (IRL or in fiction) 淘淘乐/TTL：T/T relationship 泡泡龙/PPL: P/P relationship 黄鹤楼HI: H/H relationship TPL: T/P relationship 🐟: Ultra passive bottoms

[communist-ojou-sama]

What do people who believe in Chinese invasion of Japan even think China would be aiming to gain from such an invasion? Japan has insignificant natural resources. Is it the machinery? The PRC is already the world's premier manufacturing economy with increasingly a bigger and higher-quality automobile and rail industry than Japan, so that's out. Is it the population? Literally why? And what's more it'd undermine their quite pristine reputation in the global south as a neutral and non-interventionist power that prizes above all international law. Japan isn't Worth invading lmfao

[literaryvein-reblogs]

Writing Analysis: East of Eden (Cultural References)

IWW: IWW stands for the Industrial Workers of the World, an international union which achieved the height of its membership and power in the early 1920s. Colloquially, they were known as the Wobblies and were primarily focused on promoting the interests of the world’s growing class of industrial workers.

Woodmen of the World: fraternal organization founded in 1890 which also functions as a private insurance company for its members.

Bindle-stiffs: colloquial for migrant workers; hoboes.

Paregoric: 18th and 19th century home remedy with varied uses (diarrhea, cough suppressant). Main ingredient is opium. Was available as an over-the-counter drug in the United States until 1973, when it was classified as a narcotic and is now only available by prescription.

Iron Wine Tonic: a tonic used to regain strength. Contained wine and iron citrate.

Lydia Pinkham: an herb and alcohol based tonic name after its inventor. Used to alleviate menstrual pains.

Carbolic Acid: also known as phenol. In small doses, is used in the production of many common cosmetic products. In large doses, it is a poison.

Epsom Salts: magnesium and sulfur compound. Can be used as a laxative, but is also used for bath salts.

Castor Oil: odorless and tasteless oil from the Castor plant. Was a popular home remedy for constipation.

Model T: first mass produced American automobile by Henry Ford’s Ford Motor Company. Fifteen million Model Ts were produced between 1908-1927.

Magneto: an electrical generator. For the Model T, a flywheel magneto produced alternating currents of electricity to a coal and could be considered the equivalent of a modern day alternator.

Quartermaster Corps: a logistical branch of the U.S. Army providing service support, such as material (including ammunition) and food distribution, and field services such as repairs for showers/laundry/clothing.

Faro: a card game.

Fan-tan: popular Chinese casino game similar to roulette.

Hayburner: slang name for a horse.

Source ⚜ Writing Notes & References

[captain-price-unofficially]

A Type 36 armored car in service with the "Shanghai Police Station Automobile Unit", during the Chinese Civil War. Essentially a CCKW 353 truck with 8mm steel plates welded onto it and two 7.62mm Maxims.

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Dean Obeidallah at The Dean's Report:

“The one big thing nobody is talking about: Did Elon want to shut the government down because of his business deals with China?” That was the first line of Rep. Jim McGovern (D-Mass) multi-part statement Saturday posted on Elon Musk’s platform, X--ironically enough. A similar point was also made Friday by Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT)—the ranking minority member of the House Appropriations Committee-in a detailed letter to leaders of the House and the Senate. What was the issue the two were flagging? As Rep. McGovern wrote: “The original funding bill (that he [Musk] killed) included what’s called an “outbound investment” provision—which would limit & screen U.S. money flowing to China. That would have made it easier to keep cutting-edge AI and quantum computing tech—as well as jobs—in America. But Elon had a problem.” DeLauro gave even more context to this provision vetting investments in China: “This outbound investment provision was agreed to after months of bipartisan, bicameral negotiations and years of advocacy from Members of Congress. It would have kept innovation and manufacturing in semiconductors, artificial intelligence (AI), quantum computing, and other cutting-edge technologies in the United States and prevented wealthy investors from continuing to offshore production and U.S. intellectual property into China – benefiting only their bottom lines and the Chinese Communist Party.” But Musk—per these two members of Congress—led the charge to block this proposed legislation because as McGovern accurately noted, Musk’s “second-largest market is China. He’s building huge factories there. His bottom line depends on staying in China’s good graces.” The result was that when the new budget deal was agreed upon Friday, guess what was missing? Yep, the provision that would’ve been bad for Musk’s business deals with the Chinese Communist Party—which is in essence Musk’s business partner as the NY Times detailed earlier this year in an article titled, “How Elon Musk Became ‘Kind of Pro-China.’” (Musk’s exact words.)

Rep. DeLauro explained in more detail the financial incentive behind Musk’s action to block this provision: “Musk’s car company, Tesla has poured billions of dollars into investments in China, particularly its “gigafactory” in Shanghai. The Shanghai plant is Tesla’s largest car manufacturing facility – the Chinese gigafactory produced about 50 percent of Tesla’s global automobile output over the last year.” DeLauro continued, “And in May of this year, Tesla broke ground on a new $200 million factory to manufacture large batteries critical to its electric vehicle supply chain…Notably, proponents of regulating U.S. investment in China have advocated for the inclusion of large battery manufacturing in the list of technologies subject to outbound investment screening.” Yep, these new law could’ve impacted Musk’s new business venture per DeLauro.

Rep. McGovern also raised concerns about Musk’s future business plans involving China, explaining Musk “wants to build an AI data center there too—which could endanger U.S. security.” Importantly, DeLauro detailed for all to see Musk’s documented personal relations with the Chinese Communist Party, noting, “Musk has ingratiated himself with Chinese Communist Party leadership.” For example, she cited Musk’s close ties with “Chinese premier Li Qiang, who helped rush the construction of Tesla’s Shanghai gigafactory.” DeLauro concluded her letter by writing, “It is extremely alarming that House Republican leadership, at the urging of an unelected billionaire, scrapped…this critical provision to protect American jobs and critical capabilities.” Adding, “This is particularly concerning given Elon Musk’s extensive investments in China in key sectors and his personal ties with Chinese Communist Party leadership, and calls into question the real reason for Musk’s opposition to the original funding deal.”

[...] In fact, even a well-known Republican raised alarm bells about Musk’s loyalty to Beijing. Vivek Ramaswamy--who Trump tapped with Musk to co-head the newly created Department of Government Efficiency--was publicly warning in 2023 that Musk was a puppet for the Chinese Communist Party. As CNN recently reported, Ramaswamy was concerned that “Tesla is increasingly beholden to China,” adding damningly, “I have no reason to think Elon won’t jump like a circus monkey when [China’s leader] Xi Jinping calls in the hour of need.” The GOP silence on Musk’s extensive ties to the Chinese Communist Party is beyond hypocritical given that for years Republicans have slammed China as a threat. For example, in January 2023, the House GOP created “The Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party” designed to address the “threat posed by the Chinese Communist Party and develop a plan of action to defend the American people, our economy, and our values.” Earlier this year, the House GOP led the charge to ban Tik Tok from having access to the United States--which was signed into law and goes into effect Jan. 19, 2025 unless the Chinese company that owns the social media platform sells it to a non-Chinese company. But when it comes to Musk, the GOP doesn’t care that he has documented ties to top Chinese Communist Party officials.

CCP puppet and de facto “President” Elon Musk helped block the original CR to protect his business deals with the Chinese government, because it had an “outbound investment” provision that would screen any US money sent to China.