Via China Media Project, featuring a cute essay by third-grader Yang Zhimei about the above photo. There were so many reads from the past two days that these Mid-Week Links will be presented in two parts. In this first part: Monday night to Tuesday afternoon (mostly) links.
Remember that Sofa Car video we brought to you last week? Someone over at Reddit has created/uncovered a GIF of it, and it’s great (h/t Katie). I’m pretty sure there’s only one appropriate soundtrack to accompany this:
Voting for the BJC Bar and Club Awards ends at midnight tonight. Vote now if you haven't already, it's easy -- the ballot is above. (UPDATE, next day: Voting is now closed. Sad.)
Also: we will officially celebrate the winners on Saturday at 11 pm at a party at the Sanlitun Kro's Nest. We guarantee ours will be rowdier and drunker than the Beijinger's afternoon shindig for their thingymajig.
Because of hukou (registered permanent residency) issues and other bureaucratic folderol, three couples in Nanjing divorced so that their kids could attend public kindergarten. According to Shanghai Daily, who quotes one of the divorcees interviewed by the paper Modern Express:
Foreign Policy, that award-winning online magazine devoted to “analyz[ing] the most significant international trends and events of our times, without regard to ideology or political bias,” just gave an evangelical pastor 1,200 words to promulgate his religious propaganda. “Like most Chinese, I was educated an atheist,” writes Bob Fu to begin his panegyric to God... Read more »
UPDATE, 6:42 pm: After this post was published, Want China Times changed “anus” to “urethra” and (almost) scrubbed all evidence of their error — see bottom (no pun intended). UPDATE, 6:45 pm: OK, I intended that pun. Want China Times reported today that “a man in central China’s Henan province went out with a woman he... Read more »
The Briton currently in police custody over allegations of sexual assault may be in plenty trouble – the Beijing Morning Post says he faces a “trial” in China, and his sorry story has even been reported by Reuters, in the New York Daily News and Kotaku – but so too may be the chaps who assailed him... Read more »
I, for one, am looking forward to holding my passport with me at all times. Via China Daily: Popular Beijing spots for foreigners, such as Sanlitun and university areas, will be targeted by police in a fresh drive against visitors who commit crimes, outstay their visas or gain illegal employment, authorities said on Monday. The... Read more »
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