So, the Chinese government has taken all the good stuff off the Internet, from porn to videos of monkeys sniffing their own butts. Radio, television and film are all under the thumb of the oppressively stupid and black-marker-happy SARFT. And let’s not even get started on the sorrowfully sodomized social media.
It’s unclear whether this was done out of love or spite, but a man in Beijing, reacting to his girlfriend’s constant nagging about his lack of prospects, his laziness, and other things girlfriends generally dislike, decided to show some initiative and prove his worth. He rented the big screen at Beijing West Railway Station, plugged... Read more »
The New York Times reported last week, citing Pew Research Center, that, "Asians have surpassed Hispanics as the largest wave of new immigrants to the United States, pushing the population of Asian descent to a record 18.2 million and helping to make Asians the fastest-growing racial group in the country." It didn't take long for Stephen Colbert of the Colbert Report to respond to this "threat," first suggesting a "Super Awesome Wall of China," and when he realized that wouldn't work, electrified steel floors around America to prevent Chinese immigrants from digging their way in.
We fashion ourselves cat lovers at Beijing Cream, but we had no idea that something called the International Famed Cats Exhibition (国际名猫展) happened yesterday in Beijing, as Alicia found out yesterday via China News. It was organized by the China Pearl Feline Fanciers Club and involved a contest of exotic cat breeds. (No word on who won.)... Read more »
Remember Alicia's duck story last week? It eventually made its way to a whole lot of news outlets, which is curious, because just today I realized there's a video of "5,000 ducks" in China from April 2009. Strange how the news cycle works, right? And it's interesting how a story can remain obscure for so long just because it happened in a rural part of the country. To summarize what we think happened:
It's strange what goes viral and what doesn't. It seems this video was first posted on Youku seven days ago, then transferred to 56.com (unclear whether by the same person). On Youku, by far the bigger website, this video has 430 views. On 56.com: 334,000.
The original video description simply reads, "Old man, you're pretty awesome." I'll leave it at that.
For a good minute, this video is comic. The dramatic music. The onlookers (one of them scratches his head). But then, at the 1:07 mark, a voice-over (huh?) tells us the rescuer is in position. Rescuer? A rappelling firefighter swings swiftly from one face of the building to the other, and grabs the potential suicide jumper. He gets some help from the people from the windows, who grab the jumper's arms and legs. And just like that, another life saved. All in a day's work.
Image via here. In a story about ejaculation — featuring a heavy dose of it as the centerpiece, anyway — China Daily chose to go with the non-descriptive headline “Molesting suspect held by police,” not sure why. (I know why.) The story: The woman passenger, who was wearing denim shorts, said she suddenly felt something... Read more »
