They Don’t Make Propaganda Posters Like This Anymore

...and then insects eliminated the crops...
Via Vintage-Ads.livejournal.com Just as the Great Leap Forward was beginning to yield its first casualties — and on through the years when hundreds and then thousands and then millions died of starvation and disease — China continued to print propaganda posters like the above (more after the jump) to boost morale and do whatever it... Read more »

BJC Bar And Club Awards: A Female Perspective On The “Sex” Category

Bar and Club Awards: Sex
Six days ago we introduced the 1st annual Beijing Cream Bar and Club Awards (image credit Katie), with 22 questions divided into five categories. On Friday, Drake wrote about the Sex category, and it seemed only fair that we balanced out his perspective with a girl’s. Here it is. By One Night in Beijing Club with Lighting... Read more »

Sideline Video Of A Professional Football-Soccer Goal

The morning after Beijing Guo’an defeated Guizhou Renhe F.C. Moutai Football Team (thank you, sponsor) 2-1 at Workers Stadium, Guo’an’s B team played a barnburner against Renhe’s B team at an isolated little pitch outside South Fourth Ring Road. I happened to be there, and in the minute that I happened to be recording, Guo’an... Read more »

BJC Bar And Club Awards: A Closer Look At The “Sex” Category

Bar and Club Awards: Sex
Four days ago we introduced the 1st annual Beijing Cream Bar and Club Awards (image credit Katie), with 22 questions divided into five categories. We’ve had contributions from Piper Fisco, E, Kevin Reitz, Scott Grow and Loretta Fu. To examine the fifth of our five categories, Sex, here’s Drake. By Drake Moreau Tao has dedicated this week to his own narcissistic BJC... Read more »

The Road: One Car, Three Lives (Not Including Driver’s)

Via Huffington Post: A tragic video of a bizarre car crash that killed three people in China in late August 2011 has gone viral. The footage, which aired on a Mandarin-language newscast, was taken by a traffic camera in the southeastern city of Fuqing just after 5 a.m. on August 22, 2011. According to a Chinese... Read more »

Man Who First Intervened In That Infamous Video Speaks On Record, And Other Information [UPDATE]

Foreigner beat up
Global Times has followed up on the Xuanwumen incident from Tuesday evening and tracked down several witnesses, many of whom said police instructed them to not speak to media. GT was able to get one key witness on the record though: The first Chinese man in the film seen intervening is a 24-year-old man, surnamed Wu, a... Read more »