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.
This man on the Hangzhou-Ningbo Highway in Zhejiang province really had to use the bathroom, so he hopped out of his car (presumably) and took a leak right in front of a toll booth. Not sure that’s the best place: all these booths are equipped with surveillance cameras, as we’ve seen before. The operator first says,... Read more »
Xi Jinping remains missing. The above was created by Torval Lokison, who is as concerned as the rest of us about the future president’s health. Please print out the above and post it in your neighborhood to help us search for Mr. Xi, who may have had a heart attack, or stoke, or who the... Read more »
Zheng Gang, a PhD student, died while donating sperm at Tongji Medical College of Huazhong University of Science and Technology on February 2011, and thanks to a lawsuit his father filed for 4 million yuan, we get to hear all about the country’s (world’s?) first known case of a man dying while donating sperm. Reports China... Read more »
Remember when I wrote yesterday, "Perhaps Party members should exercise more caution when dealing with people?" This story, published two days ago on Huasheng Online, is what I meant.
On September 3 in Chengdu, two journalists showed up unexpectedly at a university to investigate claims that East Star Airlines had engaged in illicit financial activities with the school. They were accosted by Gu Yingzhi, the school's dean and also a CPPCC Standing Committee member of Meishan City, Sichuan province.
I know it can be difficult sometimes to click on a 15-minute video, but this TEDTalk is both timely and worth it -- timely because Apple held its iPhone 5 unveiling yesterday in San Francisco, and worth it because Leslie T. Chang is awesome. She's best known for Factory Girls, by far the best book I've encountered about the people -- the actual people -- who live and work in the factories that churn out much of the world's retail goods.
In a cab yesterday evening, the first words the driver said to me were, "They gonna fight?" I was confused and signaled as such. He nodded at the radio. A broadcaster was in the middle of reporting on the Diaoyu Islands -- sold on Tuesday to Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda's administration from their Japanese owners -- and that's when I realized he really meant, "Might they go to war?"
You want to know why people are sometimes reluctant to help strangers? Take this incident from Monday in Shenzhen, as reported by Hebei News. It’s a sad reflection on society when even a lost toddler can pose a hazard to one’s health. A 33-year-old man surnamed Chai was with some friends on a public plaza... Read more »
Usually when you see a headline like this in Chinese media — “Detect mentally ill in your neighborhood” — you think: Uh-oh. And then you find out the story is about authorities asking community residents to help “detect” those with mental illnesses “as the result of new regulations,” and you think: Oh snap, they made... Read more »
