They're setting off fireworks in Hong Kong's Victoria Harbor right now. We'll have video later, but let us know if you enjoyed it, if you're there. First links edition of the Year of the Water Snake commences now.
A spate of sand art videos have recently popped up on Youku, many of them from Taotao (Torrential) Sand Art Studio (QQ: 2468897167). We can't be sure that the above is from Taotao, but it's in the same style as their other videos and conveniently Chinese New Year themed, so here it is. Enjoy.
Celine Dion took the stage Saturday night in front of perhaps the biggest TV audience she's ever faced, at CCTV's annual Spring Festival Gala. Watch as she sings -- in Mandarin (impressively?) -- the classic folk song "Jasmine Flower" with Chinese diva Song Zuying.
Better than PSY's performance? You decide.
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As advertised, South Korean rapper PSY made his first televised appearance in mainland China at the Shanghai Spring Festival TV Gala, which aired on Dragon TV on Sunday. There were indeed dancing robots, as you can see. But much more bizarre was the exchange at the beginning, in which PSY tried to teach Gangnam basics to the hosts, who appeared contractually obligated to play dumb as if there were still people in the world seeing this for the first time.
More than a few people have remarked on the war-zone-like transformation of Chinese cities during lunar New Year: the deafening pops, the concussions in the night sky, the screeching tail of rockets, urban scorched earth. Most of the time, however, nothing actually blows up. Most of the time. Around 11 pm Saturday, amid celebrations in Wenzhou, Zhejiang... Read more »
Who’s the person behind the most popular Xi Jinping microblog in the world, Xuexifensituan (Study Xi Fan Club [the image icon reads "Hao Hao Xue Xi," Thoroughly Study Xi]), with its 737,000 followers? Just a really big Xi Jinping fan, it turns out, who happens to be a college dropout. As revealed by Associated Press:... Read more »
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