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Introducing: CRI’s C4, A Weekly Comedy News Quiz Show

Introducing: CRI’s C4, A Weekly Comedy News Quiz Show

You've likely not seen this because fun and original content has a way of getting buried over at China Radio International -- CRI has a lot of money and heart, just not enough mark ...

Here’s What You, Beijing, Looked Like At The Beijinger’s Bar And Club Awards Party

Here’s What You, Beijing, Looked Like At The Beijinger’s Bar And Club Awards Party

The Beijinger recently released a video of its big Bar and Club Awards bash from last Saturday. Perhaps you'll find yourself in it. ...

Friday Night Musical Outro: Ecstatic For INTRO

Friday Night Musical Outro: Ecstatic For INTRO

Hey, I'm Morgan, I ran out of funny things to say for this bit. Oh hai guys, happy Friday, good to see you all, and I hope you're all already having sweet, awesome weekends. Super ...

Chinagog: Finding The Right Teaching Environment

Chinagog: Finding The Right Teaching Environment

One of the most common questions I see posted on TEFL forums is whether X school in Z province is a decent place to work. There are ways to ensure that you aren’t walking into an e ...

Laowai Comics: Out Of A Crowd

Laowai Comics: Out Of A Crowd

Laowai Comics is a biweekly webcomic. Beijing Cream is proud to debut its Thursday comic every week. Full archives here. ...

Unsavory Elements: The Good, The Bad, And The Boring Foreigners Of China

Unsavory Elements: The Good, The Bad, And The Boring Foreigners Of China

The problem with gringo lit about the gringo experience in China is it inevitably and unsubtlety reinforces the foreigner's sense of Otherness while feeding his inflated sense of i ...

BJC Bar And Club Awards Examined: Mr. Sex

BJC Bar And Club Awards Examined: Mr. Sex

This week we introduced the 2nd annual Beijing Cream Bar and Club Awards (VOTE HERE), with 20 categories divided into four groups. We've saved the best for last, and look who's com ...

Video Of Woman Cut In Half By Elevator Is Harrowing

On May 15, a 24-year-old nurse surnamed Wang was cut in half by an elevator after she found herself pinched between its closing doors. That sentence is horrific enough, but what about more details? The victim, a nurse surnamed Wang, was trapped in the elevator in Changhong Tower in Shenzhen's Luohu district, when it stopped due to failure. Since the door was open the woman attempted to exit, but the elevato ...

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Watch: Scenes From The Inaugural Art Basel Hong Kong

For the first time ever, Art Basel opened in Hong Kong on Thursday, where it'll remain a showcase for Asian art, artists and galleries until tomorrow. For a glimpse, you'll want to check out Stephy Chung's latest video for Crane.tv, above, featuring scenes from this international event. Does Hong Kong deserve Art Basel? That's debatable. "Even a few local boosters will admit that the paucity of Hong Kong ga ...

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Introducing: CRI’s C4, A Weekly Comedy News Quiz Show

You've likely not seen this because fun and original content has a way of getting buried over at China Radio International -- CRI has a lot of money and heart, just not enough marketing -- but C4, which is probably the only English-language "comedy news quiz show" in China, deserves your attention. Produced, directed, and hosted by Rob Hemsley and Stuart Wiggin, C4 (China News, China Chat, China Fun, China ...

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Friday Night Musical Outro: Ecstatic For INTRO

Hey, I'm Morgan, I ran out of funny things to say for this bit. Oh hai guys, happy Friday, good to see you all, and I hope you're all already having sweet, awesome weekends. Super sweet, awesome weekends. Welp, for this week's Friday Outro, our man The Tao specifically requested some content relating to this weekend's INTRO Festival because BeijingCream has to stay relevant with the kids. ...

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Which Parts Of The US Tweet “Chink” (And Other Hateful Words) Most Often?

Dr. Monica Stephens, a professor at Humboldt State University, has created a series of maps that illustrate which areas of the United States are most likely to send tweets with certain hateful words. It's called Geography of Hate, and here's how it works: The data behind this map is based on every geocoded tweet in the United States from June 2012 - April 2013 containing one of the 'hate words'. ...

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Foreigner Secretly Filmed Losing His Mind At Bus Driver In Chengdu

We all know the feeling of losing our cool, but how many of us know the misfortune of having a meltdown secretly filmed and uploaded to Youku, where it gets 390,000 views in half a day? Check out the above, which happened recently in Chengdu, according to the Youku description. A foreigner, because he almost misses a bus, begins cursing at the bus driver in up to three languages, while everyone else watches ...

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Chinagog: Finding The Right Teaching Environment

One of the most common questions I see posted on TEFL forums is whether X school in Z province is a decent place to work. There are ways to ensure that you aren’t walking into an educational Sarlacc pit by emailing current staff and properly vetting your contract. Still, there’s a good chance your first job will be in a shitty private language center — and there’s actually nothing wrong with that. But befor ...

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Chinese Boss Calls For Helicopter Delivery On Golf Course, Because He Can

A very rich man on a golf course reportedly had a helicopter deliver him a bowl of wontons during the middle of play, just because he could. And he was really hungry, probably. As told by environmental celebrity Huang Xiaoshan on his Weibo and relayed by Guangzhou Daily, Huang and a friend were playing golf on a course near Xiaotangshan in Beijing when they saw a helicopter fly overhead and land. The man wh ...

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Light Punishment Comes Down On Shanghai’s Highway Urinators, Netizens Not Happy

Remember the above? The picture appeared on Sina Weibo in March, with the accompanying message: A group of laowai collectively pee on a Shanghai overpass, while smirking! Can only say __ doesn’t have national boundaries! Please fill in the blank! The incident was investigated, with police eventually saying no punishment would come to the foreigners due to a lack of relevant laws. ...

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Joe Biden, In Commencement Speech, Says The Chinese Can’t “Think Different,” Plus Other Regrettable Things

Winsome goof Joe Biden, giving a commencement address at the Ivy League's University of Pennsylvania on May 13, delivered a few China barbs that probably shouldn't have come from a US vice president. "It was a humiliating experience," Chinese citizen Zhang Tianpu, a graduating Wharton senior, told SCMP. "And how can a graduation speech be this political?" ...

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Not Everyone Is Pleased With Ai Weiwei’s New Music Video

You've heard by now, but Ai Weiwei did something yesterday. And while most reactions to Dumbass, his foul-mouthed song about his 81 days in prison, were predictably enthusiastic, there's a segment of commentators who believe Ai Weiwei is overexposed, and have reacted with what amounts to a protracted and very loud sigh. ...

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