No two protests are ever the same, as the above video will show. In Changsha, people flip cars. In Dali, they sing the national anthem. In Qingdao, they chant. (Actually, they sing and chant everywhere, but you know what I mean.) There are a lot of banners that read “Japanese Devils,” a term that originates... Read more »
Tea Leaf Nation has this amusing story of former Japanese AV star Sola Aoi, who has more than 13 million followers on Sina Weibo, trying to placate fans on both sides of the sea: Ms. Aoi recently tweeted two images via iPhone from her account (@苍井空)… the first reads “Japanese-Chinese Friendship,” with Ms. Aoi commenting... Read more »
We’ve gone way beyond civil disobedience. Who are the Chinese attacking? Chinese-owned Japanese restaurants, and Japanese people who may call China home, and now journalists. It is, as the proverb goes, shitting on your carpet to spite the neighbor. We’ve seen this line of indiscriminate violence in this country before — it was called the... Read more »
Please help us caption this image, screen-grabbed from BJC contributor Jim Fields’s latest video project, who notes: “One-third of the world’s smokers are Chinese men. The other two-third are Chinese babies.” The first part is true.
Anger remains in the air. While a man living in Tokyo who we’ll refer to as Doug tells me that the majority of Japanese people are more concerned about issues other than Diaoyu, such as nuclear power, the average Chinese person would as lief see the two countries go to war than let Japan “own”... Read more »
Guess who showed up this morning! After rigorous searching and days of speculation, China’s president-in-waiting made a public appearance at China Agricultural University to mark National Science Popularization Day, according to Xinhua. South China Morning Post adds: Teachers and students at the university said Xi stayed at the campus for about 30-40 minutes. They said... Read more »
Tension over Japan’s purchase of the Diaoyu Islands appears to be escalating. Today, on what appears to be a gorgeous autumn afternoon in Beijing, thousands gathered outside the Japanese embassy to throw rocks, eggs, and bottles. Similar protests apparently happened in more than a dozen cities. Jacob, who runs the excellent YouTube channel BeijingShenghuo, was at... Read more »
We know that Kunming has a theme park called the Kingdom of the Little People, so of course it was only a matter of time it got shanzhai'ed. Uploaded a couple of weeks ago by YouTube user funkeymanx, here's a dwarf show in Yangshuo, China called "Pocket Kingdom Paradise." Yangshuo is one of the top tourism destinations in China -- for good reason -- but it's unclear how PKP fits in with the karst peaks, climbing walls, Moon Hill and Li River. Just roll with it, I guess.
