Chinese innovation spaces

In the spirit of a true weblog i'm jotting down these tasty discoveries for deeper followup later:

Institute for the Future had a short piece on Chinese makers:
http://www.iftf.org/ShanzhaiFutures

which lead me to a great article about counterfeit electronics:
http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=2037

and, in turn, to an open hardware web store:
http://www.seeedstudio.com/

and finally to the machine projects of Shanghai:
http://xinchejian.com/