Via Vintage-Ads.livejournal.com Just as the Great Leap Forward was beginning to yield its first casualties — and on through the years when hundreds and then thousands and then millions died of starvation and disease — China continued to print propaganda posters like the above (more after the jump) to boost morale and do whatever it... Read more »
The morning after Beijing Guo’an defeated Guizhou Renhe F.C. Moutai Football Team (thank you, sponsor) 2-1 at Workers Stadium, Guo’an’s B team played a barnburner against Renhe’s B team at an isolated little pitch outside South Fourth Ring Road. I happened to be there, and in the minute that I happened to be recording, Guo’an... Read more »
“China vs. The Philippines,” via Tea Leaf Nation Just saw Bad Panda at Penghao Theater, and it wasn’t half bad. Two more nights to go, for you Beijingers. Links for everyone else.
Via Huffington Post: A tragic video of a bizarre car crash that killed three people in China in late August 2011 has gone viral. The footage, which aired on a Mandarin-language newscast, was taken by a traffic camera in the southeastern city of Fuqing just after 5 a.m. on August 22, 2011. According to a Chinese... Read more »
Global Times has followed up on the Xuanwumen incident from Tuesday evening and tracked down several witnesses, many of whom said police instructed them to not speak to media. GT was able to get one key witness on the record though: The first Chinese man in the film seen intervening is a 24-year-old man, surnamed Wu, a... Read more »
Snuggling kitties might be cuter, but you can find those videos elsewhere. Here, a pair of tots dance blithely in front of a barbershop, totally absorbed in their Mandopop. They elicited a lot of smiles that evening.
RFH first noticed this. Around the nine-second mark in the video, the girl appears to grab something out of the man’s pocket, then (possibly) drops it. Best guess is a wallet. UPDATE, 7:08 pm: As pointed out by a commenter, it could well be a cell phone that she had in her hand from the... Read more »
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