If our faith in humanity is to be restored, we can do worse than starting here. On Saturday at about 9 pm, a man fell onto the tracks at Sihui station on Beijing’s Subway Line 1. With a train rumbling down the tunnel, passengers rushed to the edge of the platform — “almost in unison,... Read more »
“1 Škoda 2 guys 3 cameras 30000 pictures,” reads this YouTube description. (Škoda is a Czech car brand.) It’s an entrancing video, if only because we wish traffic always moved that fast in Beijing. It’s only too bad that the video’s not longer, but it looks like the guys already did a lot of work to produce... Read more »
Global Times reports that “some 40 experts proposed over the weekend that foreign experts and leaders be invited to retrace the historic Long March, in an effort to promote the 12,500-kilometer-long route’s listing as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.” But… foreigners have already done this. And look at the fruit they bear: Ed Jocelyn and... Read more »
I’ll leave the parsing to others, but here’s the body of Mo Yan’s meticulously arranged speech at the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony last night: I am well aware that there are many writers in the world who would be more worthy Laureates than I. I am convinced that if they only continue to write, if... Read more »
In Tongxiang county, Jiaxing, Zhejiang province recently, a five-year-old boy named Yan Zhe was killed when he wandered in front of a parked bus whose driver did not see him before accelerating. In the video, you see the driver leave his vehicle, realize what he's done, and then... nothing.
The best part of this video is definitely when the Swedish man, a tourist visiting China for the first time, jumps into the water to save a drowning woman.
The old cliche about dog being man’s best friend wouldn’t be a cliche if not for stories like this one from Guiyang, Guizhou province. Although this one comes with an absurd twist. On Sunday, a dog-owner fell in the middle of the street, reason unknown. His companion grew immediately concerned, as is evident by its... Read more »
Via Hong Wrong: “Photos from 1962 of Mainland Refugees Fleeing Famine Rejected by HK.” Happy Human Rights Day, everyone. Mo Yan is getting his Nobel Prize later today, by the way. Links.
How many Saturdays and Sundays will you be working next year? The State Council is here to fill you in (English version here).
These are always hilarious, so let's dive in:
