An elevator motherboard failure in a high-rise apartment in Anshan, Liaoning province has forced residents of Building 8, Unit 1 to find alternative ways to go home. Sure, some people just climb the 18 flights of stairs, but what if you’re old and don’t have the knees for that kind of daily workout? Pictured above,... Read more »
Beijing-based hookup app Momo and its 16 million users are about to get a bit less cool. Local nightlife blogger Jim Boyce, as he tells it on Beijing Boyce, has convinced the owner of Fubar to hold a Momo Party next Monday. No, really: Last week, I found myself sitting next to a group of women... Read more »
The best mahjong players from around the world, representing 13 countries, have converged in Chongqing for a four-day tournament that ends later today. According to Sina: The first Eight sessions will determine the team and country rank. For these sessions, efforts will be made to ensure that players from different countries will have an opportunity... Read more »
When it rains, it pours. Following revelations of child abuse by this terrible kindergarten teacher, who took hundreds of pictures of herself tormenting her students, and this kindergarten teacher, who was caught on tape slapping kids, and this kindergarten teacher, who nearly killed a child by flinging her to the ground, we have two more cases of abuse to report.
This ad by Karl Rove and American Crossroads is yet another reminder that American politics, at its worst, is no better than Chinese politics. Watch as a narrator, most certainly white, says, "The more Obama borrows from China, the more we'll have to bow to China." Implication: bowing is a gesture of servility, American decline, and Communism, not -- as it is in the real world -- a gesture of respect and willingness to cooperate on difficult, complicated matters such as, oh I dunno, international fucking politics.
A fire has just been extinguished at Guijie, the stretch of hotpot restaurants on Dongzhimen Inner Street. BJC reader and lover of adventure Hannah was biking through the area around 11 am when she saw smoke and stopped across the street, “where all the neighboring restaurants’ waitstaff were taking pictures on their camera phones.” Hannah... Read more »
Venerable titans of journalism, People’s Daily, published an attack piece on the New York Times yesterday (in Chinese) accusing the Gray Lady of deteriorating standards and bad breath. “In recent years, there has been an explosion in plagiarism and fabrication by its journalists,” PD writes, highlighting two particular debacles involving infamous plagiarists Jayson Blair and... Read more »
The Youku title reads, "Pretty ladies also fight, much fiercer than men!" A table gets knocked over. A lady rubs the other's head against the concrete. And then there is hair-pulling. Yeah, they're fierce alright.
“Has it come to this?” asks the Youku video description. “No one has it easy.” No one indeed. But read that expression another way: no one is easy, as in, they’re not pushovers. You might be tempted to think of legless beggars as pitiable, but that doesn’t make them any less proud than the rest of us.... Read more »
![All Sorts Of Awful: Black Bear Mauls Monkey After Bikes Collide At Shanghai Wild Animal Park [UPDATE]](http://beijingcream.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Bear-mauls-monkey-featured-image-150x150.jpg "All Sorts Of Awful: Black Bear Mauls Monkey After Bikes Collide At Shanghai Wild Animal Park [UPDATE]")
