Left: Su Wei; right: Liu Hongjiang (photoshopped, obviously; via Weibo) Sports fans can be vicious, especially when given anonymity and — this is very important — assent from authority to unleash their anger. I mention this latter part because it seems that Liu Hongjiang, head boss of the Guangdong Hongyuan Southern Tigers, has instigated a... Read more »
Some government departments in China ask its female civil service candidates to write about their menstrual cycle. As China Daily first reported among English media: She said she was told to fill in a form that asked about the date of her first menstruation and her menstrual cycle. “I felt so odd answering those questions. What... Read more »
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Via Dictionary of Politically Incorrect Hong Kong Cantonese Bit much, guys? CY Leung (梁振英) (a.k.a. Leung Chun-ying) has beaten scandal-ridden Henry Tang and pro-democracy candidate Albert Ho today to become Hong Kong’s new chief executive, securing 689 of the election committee’s votes. Tang was probably Beijing’s preferred choice, but he managed only 285 votes, his... Read more »
Via 8Asians. Youku video for those in China after the jump. So, this video was made in Japan (by “Tekken”), not China, and it was uploaded a week ago, so it’s not timely, and it has already received 2.4 million views, so you may have already seen it… still, if you’re in the mood to... Read more »
His name is Xue Di, and according to the Providence Journal, he is a dissident Chinese poet who has been "the league champion at the Rhode Island Table Tennis Association in Manville" for 10 straight years.
How do we start listing the ways in which this is awesome? With his voice, which rises a few octaves when he gets excited? With the fact that this video is entirely about ping pong?
Avril Lui, photo by Adrian Fisk, via Evan Osnos [New Yorker] Two very improbable things happened in tonight’s Game 2, and they may not be unrelated: the refs called a fair game, and the visiting team won. Stephon Marbury missed his first six of seven shots, Guangdong’s Aaron Brooks was unstoppable for two quarters and the... Read more »
