Looking for Chinese music? The Sound Stage, hosted by Jonathan Alpart on China Radio International, may be your answer. Calling itself "your all-access pass to Chinese new music," it seeks to promote the latest in contemporary Chinese music every week. The above is a sample -- episode two.
Shields up! Corny humor alert. George Takei, who you know from Star Trek as USS Enterprise helmsman Hikaru Sulu, posted the above picture on his Facebook on Wednesday, crediting it to David Cohen, “a fan.” Since Mr. Takei has 1.9 million likes on his Facebook, it instantly went viral, Wade-Giles romanization and all –nearly 3,100 shares... Read more »
Via MIC Gadget; Captain China is currently available on Kindle. Happy Children’s Day to everybody. If you’re a child reading this site, I congratulate you on your precociousness. If you’re an adult with a child’s mind reading this site, I regret to inform you that you’ve stumbled upon the wrong place. Perhaps you had meant... Read more »
Ever been throttled by the Net Nanny in China while doing a simple Google search? Your IP gets cut (or gagged? dick-vised? Sorry, I'm not familiar with Internet's more technical terms) and you're unable to use Google for up to a minute or more. This may not seem like a big deal, but when you're in the middle of doing just one thing that requires the use of the Internet
Ultimate Frisbee in the US, despite having a professional league, would kill for the type of publicity China Ultimate has been getting recently. (Recap: CCTV, Hennessy, Sports Illustrated China, Beijing Today.) So why wouldn't a creative company called Niurenku, for which BJC contributor Zozo works, produce a five-minute video about China Ultimate and China Nationals?
There's scant information available about this video, and maybe the creators want to keep it that way. Nothing builds buzz quite like a few days of silence while the rest of us pontificate and ponder. Here's what's apparent: two guys film a woman sitting on a seat that juts out of a window on the 23rd floor. One asks, "Is she going to commit suicide?" At the very end, one of them says, "Is this for real?" (Or: "Real or fake?")
Last Friday, the State Council Information Office of the People's Republic of China published a report called The Human Rights Record of the United States in 2011. It was in response to the US State Department's Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2011, which featured information on about 200 countries, China included.
China's report, published on Xinhua, et al., was about 8,000 words. We read it so you don't have to -- and brought in TAR Nation to explain what it all means.
Via Reddit, here’s a movie poster for a Chinese rom-com called Love in the Buff, a sequel to Love in a Puff. While we eagerly await its sequel, Red-Bean Duff: Steamed-Bun Love, let us pause a second to muse over the brilliance of the lavender-pink font. It’s just so right, and full of spunk, encapsulating the... Read more »
Here's video of a hamster that plays dead when his owner pretends to shoot him with his finger. The video was posted on Sina only yesterday at 11 am, but it's already received nearly 372,000 views there, not to mention 5,127 forwards on the Sina Weibo page of @YouTube萌宠 as of this moment. Netizens have dubbed the hamster the "ying di" -- literally, "emperor of film," but really meaning simply "Best Actor."
