The world has now been introduced to the “No Humping” pictogram. We readily acknowledge this China Daily story about a sign forbidding sex on the cable cars in Yao Mountain in Henan province is a bit dated (it’s from Friday), but that’s a damn fine pictogram. We also acknowledge that we can offer a better translation of... Read more »
Move over, virgin-boy urine eggs. This seems slightly worse. It’s a rehash of a story from last August, but the official source this time is the South Korean customs office. From AP: South Korea has seized thousands of smuggled drug capsules filled with powdered human flesh and is strengthening customs inspections, officials said Monday. The... Read more »
Journos out there, know this: it’s the Global Times’s world, we just live in it. Here’s the lead (lede) from a Sunday article by Sima Pingbang: Poker players all know that in most trick-taking games, the face cards are normally the best. However, the “2″, generally the lowest in rank, can become a special trump... Read more »
I thought I would do a Chen-free column this week, but the Global Times didn’t let me.
On a political level, this is what happened last week at the American embassy:
I’m mildly surprised that a patient, possibly under anesthesia or drunk, would rise off a surgeon’s table to beat the people he entrusts to eventually cut him open. What I’m really surprised about, however, is that after his bout of deranged violence, he’d agree to lie back down on the table and go under the knife.... Read more »
We’ve complained about the snobbishness of Time Out’s food awards, and noted that City Weekend’s attempts to promote its awards can probably do without an Ashley Tisdale soundtrack. Where does that leave us? Ah, yes, the Beijinger. Top dog for nine years, king of Beijing’s nightlife scene, like Hong Xiuquan reigning over Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. Voting is open until... Read more »
This is different: In the still of the deep night, removing that mask of insincerity, we say to our true selves, “I am sorry.” Goodnight. The message, which first appeared on Beijing News’s Weibo, was in response to its anti-Chen Guangcheng editorial on Friday. The picture above is what accompanied the apology, truly a WTF... Read more »
Plenty of people nurse a healthy loathing of the “expat in Asia,” and in some instances, that antipathy is understandable, if not justified. (The image you want is of a mustachioed former mill owner, old and white, in Thailand. If you’d like to see some of these fellas here, try the bar Maggie’s.) Yet I’ve... Read more »
