Xi Jinping remains missing. The above was created by Torval Lokison, who is as concerned as the rest of us about the future president’s health. Please print out the above and post it in your neighborhood to help us search for Mr. Xi, who may have had a heart attack, or stoke, or who the... Read more »
We've seen roadside buskers -- even drummers -- aplenty, but few are as impressive as this young man, identity unknown, who uses pots, pans and buckets to create music. This was posted on the Sina Weibo of @Ghost190 on Monday.
Here it is, The Good Doctor’s video from Saturday’s The Creators Project at 798′s Ullens Center for Contemporary Arts, featuring a long DJ set by former LCD Soundsystem lead man James Murphy. Take a long hard look, Beijing: this is you. Kind of. Not you. I don’t recognize you. Come to think of it… aren’t you... Read more »
I've always associated Wudaokou with the opening scene of Blade. A young American guy with a dumb and full-of-cum look is led by an attractive Russian past a burley bearded bouncer into a nightclub. It has every characteristic of a night club: flashes of darkness amid strobe and techno lights, minimal maneuvering, bumping, pushing, tugging, tripping, biting. And wetness. Everyone in clothing appropriate for Carnival yet still drenched as if they’d run through sprinklers. As we all know (if you don’t, consider this a spoiler alert for the movie Blade), the liquid is actually blood, the American guy's actually in a vampire-infested den, and just as he's about to get eaten, Wesley Snipes swoops in and wipes everyone out with a sword.
Zheng Gang, a PhD student, died while donating sperm at Tongji Medical College of Huazhong University of Science and Technology on February 2011, and thanks to a lawsuit his father filed for 4 million yuan, we get to hear all about the country’s (world’s?) first known case of a man dying while donating sperm. Reports China... Read more »
Remember when I wrote yesterday, "Perhaps Party members should exercise more caution when dealing with people?" This story, published two days ago on Huasheng Online, is what I meant.
On September 3 in Chengdu, two journalists showed up unexpectedly at a university to investigate claims that East Star Airlines had engaged in illicit financial activities with the school. They were accosted by Gu Yingzhi, the school's dean and also a CPPCC Standing Committee member of Meishan City, Sichuan province.
I know it can be difficult sometimes to click on a 15-minute video, but this TEDTalk is both timely and worth it -- timely because Apple held its iPhone 5 unveiling yesterday in San Francisco, and worth it because Leslie T. Chang is awesome. She's best known for Factory Girls, by far the best book I've encountered about the people -- the actual people -- who live and work in the factories that churn out much of the world's retail goods.
In a cab yesterday evening, the first words the driver said to me were, "They gonna fight?" I was confused and signaled as such. He nodded at the radio. A broadcaster was in the middle of reporting on the Diaoyu Islands -- sold on Tuesday to Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda's administration from their Japanese owners -- and that's when I realized he really meant, "Might they go to war?"
Via Corvallis Gazette-Times, an offending mural in Oregon promoting independence for Tibet and Taiwan. NFL Game Pass is free this week thanks to City Weekend, so go here to watch some American football. AMERICA. Links.
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