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Expect Lots Of Drinkers From Beijing’s LGBT Community To Be At This Weekend’s Craft Beer Festival

Expect Lots Of Drinkers From Beijing’s LGBT Community To Be At This Weekend’s Craft Beer Festival

That's Beijing dropped a bombshell yesterday, reporting that Galaxy Soho's management apparently doesn't want the city's LGBT Center to have an official presence at the Craft Beer ...

A Drive In Hong Kong

A Drive In Hong Kong

Hong Kong is a city unlike any other, its buildings rising up out of the hills like ridged obelisks, its waters rippling with cargo ships, ferries, and buoys, its mountainside pain ...

Chinese Fans In Uproar After National Soccer Team Loses 5-1 To Thailand

Chinese Fans In Uproar After National Soccer Team Loses 5-1 To Thailand

It's difficult -- it really is -- to say Chinese soccer has reached a "new" low, considering its history of match-fixing and utter, abysmal, unmitigated failure on the internationa ...

Introducing: The Creamcast, The Official Podcast Of Beijing Cream

Introducing: The Creamcast, The Official Podcast Of Beijing Cream

We're launching a podcast! On the occassion of Episode 1, featuring Frank Yu, The Creamcast hosts John Artman and The Good Doctor are here to answer some questions. ...

Chen Guangcheng Is Being Asked To Leave NYU, And We Should All Be Okay With That

Chen Guangcheng Is Being Asked To Leave NYU, And We Should All Be Okay With That

Last May, lawyer-activist Chen Guangcheng was a media darling and international hero. His dramatic escape from the village of Dongshigu, where he was held under house arrest, made ...

Hail And Serein: The Amazing Storm That Just Swept Through Beijing

Hail And Serein: The Amazing Storm That Just Swept Through Beijing

That was quite the collective experience, Beijing. An hour ago, a dam in the sky broke. Rain turned into pellets of ice, the sound of its steady assault only interrupted by thunder ...

Gaokao Questions Are Ridiculous

Gaokao Questions Are Ridiculous

Global Times is running a neat feature on its Facebook page (yes, Global Times has a Facebook page) in which it posts sample questions from China's National College Entrance Exam, ...

Laowai Comics: A Summer Break

By June 13, 2013 6:00 am Comment : 9
Laowai Comics: A Summer Break

Laowai Comics is a biweekly webcomic. Our intrepid artist is taking a leave of absence for the summer months, but will return in the fall. Until then, perhaps you'd like to check out the full archives. ...

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Picture Of The Day: Beijing Unfiltered

By February 21, 2013 11:04 am Comment : 0
Picture Of The Day: Beijing Unfiltered

Ed's note: The above is a previously unpublished photo from the portfolio of Kevin Schoenmakers, whose book, 118 Photos from China, is available for purchase on his website. Our favorite is the cat in the section "Beijing in Blue," which reminds of this. ...

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Picture Of The Day: Clown

By January 27, 2013 10:00 am Comment : 1
Picture Of The Day: Clown

  The traditional dress of the Chou, China's 57th ethnic minority group. Here we see what must be a quite wealthy member, for as one of China's most notoriously frugal ethnic groups, they usually travel 10 to a car. ...

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