Ed's note: Welcome to BJC's newest weekly series, Three Shots With, in which we interview local personalities over shots. New episodes are posted every Sunday; if you would like to nominate a future guest, please get in touch. Produced and directed by Gabriel Clermont and Anthony Tao.
George Ding, the Beijinger's backpage columnist, catapulted to notortiety last fall
Happy Passover and Easter weekend. We're launching our Three Shots With series tomorrow, starting with George Ding at 10 am, followed by Morgan Short at 2 pm. We'll see ya then.
There’s been a lot of hoopla over one of Iron Man 3′s film location, namely China — we heard the buzz as early as April 2012 — but only two notable Chinese actors appear in the film, Wang Xueqi and Fan Bingbing, and the latter doesn’t even appear in the new trailer. How disappointing, considering... Read more »
Who are these girls? How did Donnie convince them to participate in this? How do we watch Shanghai play Beijing in women’s lacrosse? All questions one must ponder. The answer we’ve always know though: of course Donnie played lax for the Boston Cannons.
Order was restored to the Chinese Basketball Association last night as the Guangdong Southern Tigers, winners of the CBA finals in 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2006, 2005, and 2004, beat Liaoning on the road, 94-74, to complete a four-game sweep.
By "order" we mean devastating lack of parity, the type that makes one wonder: is Guangdong actually any good, or is every other team really supremely that bad?
According to AFP, North Korea issued a statement that read, “As of now, inter-Korea relations enter a state of war and all matters between the two Koreas will be handled according to wartime protocol.” North and South Korea, as everyone is quick to remind, have technically never been out of war since 1950 because no peace treaty was ever signed, but
We GIFed this video for you, from today’s mass rally at Pyongyang’s Kim Il-sung Square, so you don’t have to. Look at the man in the middle. Once more, with enthusiasm! (Via BJC video producer Gabriel Clermont – here’s his previous GIF work – who’ll be around these parts every week starting this Sunday. Wait for it.)
Peng Liyuan may be unlike other wives of China’s leaders — she’s the country’s first “First Lady,” after all — but that doesn’t mean you’re allowed to stray off-message when talking about her. Case in point, the above photo, published by @HKfighter with an accompanying message that was translated Tuesday by China Digital Times:
The Associated Press has just published footage of today's 90-minute mass rally in Pyongyang, and it was very North Korean. Watch the weirdness that is thousands of troops on Kim Il Sung Square clapping while leaders on the rostrum clap back.
Soldiers and students reportedly chanted, “Death to the US imperialists” and “Sweep away the US aggressors."
