By Jon Pastuszek

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Laowai Comics: Out Of A Crowd

Laowai Comics is a biweekly webcomic. Beijing Cream is proud to debut its Thursday comic every week. Full archives here. ...

Unsavory Elements: The Good, The Bad, And The Boring Foreigners Of China

The problem with gringo lit about the gringo experience in China is it inevitably and unsubtlety reinforces the foreigner's sense of Otherness while feeding his inflated sense of i ...

BJC Bar And Club Awards Examined: Mr. Sex

This week we introduced the 2nd annual Beijing Cream Bar and Club Awards (VOTE HERE), with 20 categories divided into four groups. We've saved the best for last, and look who's com ...

BJC Bar And Club Awards Examined: Little Miss Dance

This week we introduced the 2nd annual Beijing Cream Bar and Club Awards, with 20 categories divided into four groups. Here's Hannah Lincoln with a closer look at the group Little ...

Chinagog: A Passionate Defense of Henan, My Adopted Chinese Home

Anytime anything bad, weird or completely fucked up happens in China, I hold my breath for the inevitable mention of Zhengzhou, Sanmenxia, Zhumadian or any of the horror-story pron ...

BJC Bar And Club Awards Examined: Mr. Drunk

This week we introduced the 2nd annual Beijing Cream Bar and Club Awards (VOTE HERE), with 20 categories divided into four groups. We've invited a man who knows a thing or two abou ...

“It’s Good To Sleep With Virgins”: A Global Times Editorial That Never Was

The information that follows was compiled by BJC editor-at-large RFH after a chat with the shadowy Tan Guan, whose position at Global Times is unknown. All views expressed below ar ...

Your 2013 CBA Playoffs Preview: Can The Beijing Ducks Repeat As Champs?

By Jon Pastuszek March 2, 2013 12:15 pm Comment : 0

The Chinese Basketball Association playoffs got underway Wednesday, and to discuss the teams and break down the matchups, we've invited the foremost English-speaking CBA expert, Jon Pastuszek, who runs the excellent NiuBBall. Our questions to him are in bold. ...

Stephon Marbury Has Silenced His Critics This Year, Maybe For Good

By Jon Pastuszek April 3, 2012 5:45 pm Comment : 9

By Jon Pastuszek It's November 2010, and Stephon Marbury has locked himself inside a hotel room in Taiyuan, Shanxi province, sad, hurt and uncertain over his future in China. Eight months earlier, after basically being told he wasn't welcome anymore in the NBA, he had come to play for the Shanxi Brave Dragons of the Chinese Basketball Association. American media cackled at this desperate move from a despera ...

The Most Comprehensive CBA Playoffs Preview On The Internet

By Jon Pastuszek February 21, 2012 11:10 am Comment : 2

[caption id="attachment_352" align="alignnone" width="470" caption="Via China Daily"][/caption] By Jon Pastuszek We have a saying over at NiuBBall: There is no parity in the Chinese Basketball Association. Understand: Since the CBA went to a best-of-five format for the first round and semis in 2005, never has there been a do-or-die Game 5. Since the CBA went to a best-of-seven format for the finals a year l ...