By Allie Jaynes

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Laowai Comics: Out Of A Crowd

Laowai Comics is a biweekly webcomic. Beijing Cream is proud to debut its Thursday comic every week. Full archives here. ...

Unsavory Elements: The Good, The Bad, And The Boring Foreigners Of China

The problem with gringo lit about the gringo experience in China is it inevitably and unsubtlety reinforces the foreigner's sense of Otherness while feeding his inflated sense of i ...

BJC Bar And Club Awards Examined: Mr. Sex

This week we introduced the 2nd annual Beijing Cream Bar and Club Awards (VOTE HERE), with 20 categories divided into four groups. We've saved the best for last, and look who's com ...

BJC Bar And Club Awards Examined: Little Miss Dance

This week we introduced the 2nd annual Beijing Cream Bar and Club Awards, with 20 categories divided into four groups. Here's Hannah Lincoln with a closer look at the group Little ...

Chinagog: A Passionate Defense of Henan, My Adopted Chinese Home

Anytime anything bad, weird or completely fucked up happens in China, I hold my breath for the inevitable mention of Zhengzhou, Sanmenxia, Zhumadian or any of the horror-story pron ...

BJC Bar And Club Awards Examined: Mr. Drunk

This week we introduced the 2nd annual Beijing Cream Bar and Club Awards (VOTE HERE), with 20 categories divided into four groups. We've invited a man who knows a thing or two abou ...

“It’s Good To Sleep With Virgins”: A Global Times Editorial That Never Was

The information that follows was compiled by BJC editor-at-large RFH after a chat with the shadowy Tan Guan, whose position at Global Times is unknown. All views expressed below ar ...

Unleash Peng Liyuan! Why China’s First Lady Needs To Take Center Stage

By Allie Jaynes November 16, 2012 10:00 am Comment : 1

By Allie Jaynes As many people have already discussed, Xi Jinping's famous hot wife is presenting some issues for the PR folks at the CPC. You'd think having a singer babe on your team who devotes her spare time to anti-smoking campaigns and helping earthquake victims would be a windfall for the party's propagandists. Apparently not. Peng Liyuan's name is blocked on Sina Weibo, and while 10-page spreads on ...