By RFH Reuters’s anonymous sources (reliable, surely) may tell us that the upcoming 18th Party Congress – aka Xi Jingping’s coronation – will be delayed, but our reading of the tea leaves yields a different conclusion. If you can’t afford to visit North Korea this summer (where a long weekend with a tour group can cost a couple-thousand... Read more »
The Good Doctor was biking through Wangjing recently (that's a district in Beijing, the city's de facto K-Town) when he saw this. Just a slice of urban life for you. Nothing to see, really.
A road called commonly known as Guijie is one of the busiest streets in Beijing every evening thanks to the overwhelming number of restaurants on either side. In fact, that's all the street is known for -- restaurants, usually catering toward tourists and expensive.
Should any of us experience this type of blithe, unadulterated joy while riding the subway, we should count ourselves lucky — or insane to have finally unyoked from the shells of prejudice and misunderstanding that trammel the great grand human social experience. May the world be as happy a place as depicted here, sans worry,... Read more »
This sight is from Thursday night, as posted on China Daily. Quite the scene, huh? After the jump, there’s a video from some Chinese office workers who had a great view. They expressed, mostly, amazement and child-like wonder. Nature can be impressive when it wants to be, that’s for sure. Too bad man’s around to... Read more »
There’s your answer. Chengguan these days just can’t catch a break. This truck — “Chengguan Law Enforcement” is what those characters say — spontaneously combusted yesterday at 9 am on Beijing’s West Fourth Ring Road, according to ifeng.com, further congesting the already-bad rush hour traffic. Apparently the smoke could be seen from a kilometer away.... Read more »
Does anyone have more information about this?
This email was sent by the US Embassy in Beijing 10 minutes ago, with the subject, "Message for U.S. Citizens: Precautions Advised in Beijing Nightclubs":
The Beijinger just posted 24 pictures of Louis CK at work on Sunday night. Go check it out (we sample a few after the jump). In the above, we can only assume he was delivering his Chinese potbelly joke, which RFH described thusly in yesterday's review:
Of course, though, China is changing, as Louis kept remarking: “We [Americans] think you’re all peddling bicycles, wearing little hats… it’s nothing like what we think.” But “I keep seeing this guy: [flips up shirt to reveal proud potbelly].”
We know the feeling. Flights from China are always delayed, sometimes even canceled — such was the case for Katie, who, because her flight couldn’t take off yesterday (for some nebulous reason, of course), had the opportunity to walk through the arrivals door and snap a picture of the above. We don’t know who this... Read more »
Louis CK played a show in Beijing last night; he spoke for just over an hour. Here’s what we can’t talk about – the organizers. Even though they were in season and up on stage last night, handing out the shout-outs like skittles, after midnight, they became as shy as hedgehogs and asked us not to even mention their names.
So, thanks [redacted], [redacted] and [redacted] and special thanks to Louis’s official Chinese sponsors, a new, Beijing-based, live, streaming porno site offering all users free credits per orgasm that can then be exchanged for Jack Daniel’s, Cheerios and Ray Bans; their site is found at [redacted].
