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BJC Bar And Club Awards Examined: Mr. Sex

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

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

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

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

“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 ...

BJC Bar And Club Awards Examined: Mr. Laowai

BJC Bar And Club Awards Examined: Mr. Laowai

This week we introduced the 2nd annual Beijing Cream Bar and Club Awards (VOTE HERE), with 20 categories divided into four groups. Here's Kelly Mason, a good foreigner, with a clos ...

Laowai Comics: Dangerous

Laowai Comics: Dangerous

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

Kobe Bryant’s Legion Of Chinese Basketball Fans Flood Social Media To Wish Him Well

On Friday, the Los Angeles Lakers’ torturous season suffered another calamity when star guard Kobe Bryant tore his Achilles tendon, ending one of his most impressive statistical seasons on a down note. Though the 34-year-old Bryant has his detractors, his work ethic and ability to battle through injuries are legendary, moving opposing fans and Lakers supporters alike to “#PrayForKobe” on Twitter. Similarly, ...

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If The Chinese Made Sleepless In Seattle: “Finding Mr. Right,” Reviewed

I’m imagining myself walking a fictional waterside street in my hometown of Seattle, Washington. I pass a pregnant Chinese woman, a plethora of designer handbags laid before her on a table. “Sale! Sale!” the woman is shouting. What do I think of this woman? What assumptions do I make about her life in China and her journey to America? What do I think of her after learning she is in the country to give birth ...

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Margaret Thatcher’s Top Five China Moments

Margaret Thatcher, the outspoken former Prime Minister who transformed Great Britain during her stewardship of the country from 1979 to 1990 and inspired the global conservative moment during her decade in power, died Monday from a stroke. Great Britain’s only woman prime minister, the so-called Iron Lady led the Conservative Party to three electoral victories in a streak that was the longest continuous per ...

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Beijing’s Back Alley Chili Cook-Off At Great Leap Brewing, Reviewed

Like the most quintessential of Americana, chili is not complex -- a stew of beans and tomatos, ingredients that fill the stomach, kick the tongue -- yet it's only with such a square, hearty base that we can sign our culinary art into the slight variances that elevate mere provision into the estimable domain of gastronomy. It is possible for chili to achieve morphology, where degrees of difference are plain ...

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John Lydon Is Controversial, Kraftwerk Is Not; So Why Ban The Latter? On China’s Whimsical Censorship Of Musical Acts

Ah, music festival season in China. With the balmy climes and fluffy white cottonwood pollen comes the annual rumor mill about which bold-faced recording artists are slated to perform at the summertime’s numerous annual kickoff events, which have been denied performance permits, and general conspiratorial grumblings about why this is and who's to blame. The controversy has already begun. Kraftwerk, an influ ...

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Three Shots With… Morgan Short, i.e. Hurley From Lost

Three Shots With Beijing Cream is weekly series in which local personalities are interviewed over shots. New episodes are posted every Sunday; if you would like to nominate a future guest, please get in touch. Produced and directed by Gabriel Clermont and Anthony Tao. We caught wind of Morgan Short's imminent arrival to Beijing last summer, with our informant adding without equivocation that Smart Shanghai, ...

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Beijing Cream Presents: Three Shots With… George Ding

Ed's note: Welcome to BJC's newest weekly series, Three Shots With, in which we interview local personalities over shots. New episodes are posted every Sunday; if you would like to nominate a future guest, please get in touch. Produced and directed by Gabriel Clermont and Anthony Tao. George Ding, the Beijinger's backpage columnist, catapulted to notortiety last fall ...

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Introducing: A Weekly Column About Teaching In China

Before we get started, let me say this: If you're one of those who reflexively shits on anyone and everyone in the education industry in China, let's just get the hate all out of the way. Yes, there are those who deserve the world's flung feces because they are your stereotypical loser-back-home/asshole-backpacker laowai who drinks to excess (often in class, because "it's China"), whore around like end-time ...

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Expat Blues And Its Musical Cure: Frank Turner

Normal expat whining is grating and graceless, but let’s face it: it has its roots in something that we can all identify with. China takes a lot out of you, demands a lot of you at times. Sure, there are those skating by with an absurd income-to-work ratio, people to whom China is a paid vacation punctuated by occasional encounters with the indigenous people who for some reason haven’t learned to speak Engl ...

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The Beijinger’s 10th Annual Reader Restaurant Awards: Basically Unnoteworthy, But Thanks For The Free Beer!

One thing I learned about getting invited to a the Beijinger awards ceremony is you first have to leave Beijing. During my four-year tenure here, I never received an invite. Just three months after I made the move to Hangzhou, I was chosen to be an official nominator. Sure, why not. Months later, as an Official Nominator for the Beijinger's 10th Annual Reader Restaurant Awards, I got an invitation to the ce ...

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China Twitter Accounts You Probably Already Follow, Schmuck

At the end of every year, the meejah publish lists: what's what, what's hot, what's not, what's frot -- y'know, "Top 10 Worst Celebrity Red Carpet Frock Horrors!" and other such high-water marks for journalism. But being lazy and living in China, we thought we'd wait until the end of the Dragon Year to do something similar. And seeing as we're cheeky and crass, we thought we'd take a slightly different appr ...

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Super Bowl Diary: A Displaced American Makes Good On Her Patriotic Duty To Catch The Big Game In Beijing

Pregame. Sunday for some, Monday for others. Really, really early on Monday for others. I haven't been training as hard as I used to, but you don't pass up a chance to get your fan on, especially when those chances are so few and far between. The Super Bowl is big in America, the one event that brings us all together, even if it's to root for different teams. Then again, the game itself is almost beside the ...

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What’s Up With These “The Beijinger” Covers?

The Beijinger is our fine city's largest expat magazine, purveyors of flour, dogs, hair, and hutong skiers. Frankly, we can't wait for what's next... tissues? turtles? WE HOPE SO. Too excited about the possibilities, we've gone ahead and mocked up some cover suggestions. Let's make this happen, tbj. ...

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Understanding Jackie Chan, Chinese Nationalism, And Double Standards In English Media

In a December interview on a Phoenix TV talk show, Jackie Chan made comments that Western media have recently described as "anti-American" -- ...really? I think his comments regarding America are immature, but they're not without reason. What a lot of reporting has ignored is that Chan was speaking in Chinese on a Chinese television channel, and the message he was delivering to a Chinese audience was this: ...

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Blogging The Bloggers: Another New Year, Same Old Mug’s Game

Peeping weekly at the best (and worst) that was, is, and will be on the China blogosphere. Aside from family animosities, hangovers and relief in seeing in another year relatively unscathed, there is little worth celebrating in the Sino-English gulag. Drawing up lists of the best and worst sites is a fool's errand. Ditto content. It is as if this digital corner has been leached of enthusiasm and experiment. ...

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Friends And Countrymen (An Expat Christmas No. 9)

BJC's An Expat Christmas series is winding down, but we wouldn't leave without a story from Shanghai. William Childress writes about friends, food, and transience in the big city. By William Childress We're lucky, in Shanghai, to be in a city with so many foreigners that we can essentially experience the holidays as we would in our native land. But don't get me wrong -- we're not exactly in an expatriate ha ...

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