Global travelers Maxwell Swann and Todd Van Duzer “won a 30-day all-expense-paid trip to China,” according to the Vimeo description. “Armed with a couple cameras, they explored almost all China has to offer two 25-year old college grads. Baby pandas, bungee jumping, monkeys, and so much more.” It’s a decent video, and might, if nothing else, inspire... Read more »
Around 9 am this morning, a military helicopter crashed into a residential neighborhood in Shantou, Guangdong province. The pilot parachuted to safety, but at least four people on the ground sustained injuries, none life-threatening, according to People’s Daily. One of the injured, a 26-year-old woman, had to be taken to the hospital. In typical fashion (not really,... Read more »
Mo Yan is scheduled to leave tomorrow for Stockholm, according to South China Morning Post, where on Friday he’ll deliver his speech to the Swedish Academy and the following Monday will attend the award ceremony. Netizens all want to know: not what he will say (probably nothing, per his name), but what he will wear.... Read more »
The haute urban fad that is White Collar Boxing spread to China earlier this year, culminating in bouts that doubled as a black-tie charity event (November 17 in Beijing, December 1 in Shanghai). The highlight video for the Beijing event, "Brawl on the Wall," was just released to YouTube yesterday. More than 500 people reportedly attended to watch eight fights by amateur boxers who had spent the previous three months training.
Don't know a darn thing about this video except that it was taken in Sichuan province earlier this week. In the title, we're told it's a woman and an older woman fighting. In the video description, we're told it's man and an old woman. The only things we can deduct as truth: an old woman is fighting, and she's doing okay, despite throwing punches and kicks in slow motion.
Despite our initial assessment of the "international" magic carnival that happened from Saturday to Monday in Beijing, magic is actually pretty cool, as are magicians. ITN has highlights of performers doing their thing.
Image taken from People’s Daily’s infamous and now deleted slideshow (seriously) Last week, Time Magazine opened a reader poll for its Person of the Year, prompting us to ask whether Bo Xilai should win. Turns out, that was the wrong question. The question should be: by how many votes will Kim Jong-un win by? Because... Read more »
On Sunday, Beijing Youth Daily reported that Beijing had sentenced “10 people to up to 18 months in jail for illegally detaining petitioners from another city” (Reuters‘s words). It was, as Reuters noted, “a rare case of the judiciary taking on the shadowy men who operate on the margins of the law.” Ah, but not so... Read more »
