Note to developers and demolition crews: don’t think you can destroy a person’s home without a fight. Last year, Yang Youde kept bulldozers at bay by constructing a homemade cannon. Earlier this month, a woman killed herself and two local officials with a bomb. For basically as long as houses have been razed, people have resisted, and the latest example is possibly the best: Mr. Zhou, a 70-year-old pensioner decked in camo, hurls petrol bombs at trespassers in the above video, refusing to vacate his home to greedy developers and their multimillion-yuan project.
(H/T Katie) Disputes happen on the streets all the time, but there’s always a bad way to resolve conflicts and a better way. The example here, from Chengdu, represents the former. I don’t want to speculate. But I see what I see, and others, surely, will as well: a white man spits in the face... Read more »
This was taken last night by my friend Kris Pickett on the street just north of Chang’an Jie (Avenue of Eternal Peace) near Xidan, about three miles west of Tian’anmen Square (the big building in the background is the Xidan Book Mansion). Kris happened to be walking underneath a pedestrian bridge when he noticed a... Read more »
Posted on Monday by YouTube user texasdaveodell -- who longtime Beijingers will remember as Dave, a staple in the local punk scene -- the musicians in the video could well be Beijing's first Irish band, active from 1999 to 2001. (Or not -- someone out there correct this bit of info in the video title if you can.) Like a true nostalgic, Dave has asked the members of the outfit to contact him at dave@texasdavid.com. You know what they say about growing old and wistful: the older you get, the more you wish you would've married that curly-haired flutist in that Irish band.
In the wake of the “British rapist” and Russian cellist, this won’t help Chinese-foreigner relations: a basketball team called the New Orleans Hurricanes — possibly this one from Texas – was in Jiaxing, Zhejiang province yesterday for an exhibition against the Zhejiang Guangsha Lions that ended in the worst way possible. In the above video (and below, on Youku,... Read more »
Image via ifeng, taken in Foshan. It’s been somewhat of a stressful day for the blog, considering our server went down for several hours. Apologies for it all, and the lateness of these links.
CGC: “I want to correct one thing here. When we talk about my situation in the future, let’s not use the word ‘house arrest,’ but instead let’s use the term ‘illegal detention.’ …My suffering was beyond imagination.”
Earlier this week, students at the Shandong Institute of Business and Technology went on Weibo to complain about their food tasting “sour, tart,” according to an article on the website 21food.cn. And why would food taste like that? The picture above is not some random dead whale, but the whale served up at the Shandong... Read more »
This video, originally 10 minutes, first appeared about four years (full version on Youku after the jump), and possibly because of its length, it lived down to its viral potential. There was too much pictorial white noise, so that a punchy title such as “Dog Lures Chicken Into Love Den, Proceeds To Hump (Rape?) It” didn’t... Read more »
