Tigers aren’t so wonderful things sometimes. (Go ahead and skip this story if you’re an animal lover.) On Monday morning at Xixiakou Wild Animal Preserve in Weihai, Shandong province, visitors to the tiger preserve were horrified to find three year-old bengals playing “aggressively” (zoo’s word) with a seven-month-old white tiger. When the above picture first surfaced... Read more »
Feng Jianmei, who was forcibly aborted last month, and her husband Deng Jiyuan, who went missing for a while but has since resurfaced, have signed a settlement with their local government, reports Xinhua: The family of a young Chinese woman forced to have a late-term abortion has agreed to settle the case out of court after... Read more »
Via China Whisper: “July 11, Wuhan maximum temperature was over 35 degrees, Giant Panda ‘Weiwei’ was laying on the ice blocks to get rid of heat.” Smart panda. Update, 1:40 pm:
By Alicia Business Insider has published a 33-photo slideshow of photographer Nick DeWolf’s work called “What Hong Kong Looked Like 40 Years Ago,” and it’s hard for me to believe that these were taken only a decade before I was born. Hong Kong looked so different, yet familiar. Seeing these, I feel a twang of nostalgia for the things... Read more »
Last week in Jinhua, Zhejiang province, cameras perched on either side of Shuanglong (Double Dragon) Bridge caught an interesting sight: guardrails falling. Actually, that in itself is probably unremarkable, but what if we added sound effects? (Credit to an unnamed production manager [I'm guessing] of a news station somewhere. Though he forgot to move his... Read more »
Remember, folks: to err is human. And when you do err on official Chinese state media, like Xinhua editor Mo Hong’e, rest assured that BJC will be there to amplify the error and make fun of you. Here’s Xinhua piece on “tilt-shit photos.” I’m a little confused by the caption though: “Photo: xinhuanet.com.” What does that... Read more »
Escalators in China: stop it. First you kill a man, now you go after small children? In Zhongshan, Guangdong province yesterday, a two-year-old boy lost the bottom half of his leg after the shoe he was wearing — a “holed shoe,” as they’re called, a local version of Crocs — got sucked into the side... Read more »
BBC Magazine has an incredible slideshow of photographs from the Republic of China period, before the Cultural Revolution destroyed so many of these type of images. The accompanying story also details Robert Bickers’s efforts to reclaim rare photos as part of the Historical Photographs of China project, which “aims to locate, archive, and disseminate photographs... Read more »
There's no protection against environmental pollution in China, even from latex factories.
On Monday morning, residents near Quxi River in Wenzhou, Zhejiang province discovered the place they wash their clothes and food had turned into a "Milk River." Overnight, a kilometer-stretch of river had filled with a chemical leak from nearby Dashulin Trading Co., a company that makes, among other things, latex.
A few days ago at a shopping mall in Zunhua, Tangshan, Hebei province, security cameras caught a small dog being a small dog, by which I mean terrorizing a small child. The boy's grandmother tried to shoo the dog away (we don't know if she struck it, because that part is off-camera). This act infuriated the dog's owner, a young girl who began attacking the woman, who was in her 60s. Store attendants momentarily pulled the two apart, but the young girl continued to chase the grandmother, eventually throwing her onto the ground, where she remained for a long while before going to the hospital.
