Lenovo Plans to Sell Video-Game Console in China

Often, I think I know China well. However, just as often, it occurs to me that I don't really know what I thought I knew. The visions and experiences collected and stored in my mind while I am awake are gone after I have slept. Reasoning and understanding seem to last only for a few hours before becoming illusory: the images and meanings disappear one by one, stolen from me by apparitions and secreted away, never to be returned in their original form. The understandings that I have assiduously acquired are nothing more than banal when bound together to try and shape the oldest continuous civilization on earth. Experience, learning, and proudly possessed knowledge, gained from many sources and from interaction with its people, are taken from everyone who thinks they know China and passed on to others who share them smugly, use them with confidence, reverently broadcast them as Gospel for a few praiseworthy moments. "I know China." Then, time and circumstance mangle them until they are beyond comprehension. These ,too, will be passed on and shared as truth, only to be proved wrong again. The enigma is this: China never changes, but China always changes. Its people beset by burden, affected with melancholy, inured to bewilderment, and suckled on uninterrupted millennia of incalculable hopelessness and sorrow. "There is chaos under heaven and things could not be better", said Mao Zedong. This is the real truth: "China is a big country, inhabited by many Chinese" - Charles De Gaulle. China: don't ask, it is what it is... ,,,,,,,,W.D. Box

08/31/2010

Lenovo Plans to Sell Video-Game Console in China

Aug. 30 (Bloomberg) -- Lenovo Group Ltd., China’s biggest maker of personal-computers, said it plans to sell a video-game console in the country by year-end as the company expands the range of its products for consumers.

Lenovo set up a venture, Beijing Eedoo Technology Ltd., this month to operate the game-console business, Jay Chen, a company spokesman in Beijing, said by phone today. Other investors in Eedoo include Legend Holdings Ltd., the controlling shareholder of Lenovo, he said.

The maker of Thinkpad laptops will enter a market where Nintendo Co. and Shanda Interactive Entertainment Ltd. have struggled as Chinese players mainly subscribe to play games online on their PCs. Software piracy in the world’s second- biggest economy has also limited growth of the game-console industry, according to analyst Zhao Xufeng.

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