This was spotted in Nanjing in 2011 and posted on Sign Spotting, so you may think it’s a little dated, but we say there’s no time limit on a good puke pail. The English reads “Vomit Here,” but the Chinese is translated literally as “Sober Up Bucket.” (Where’re those Chinglish translations when you need them?) Let that be... Read more »
Pic via National Confidential There is, to be sure, an Eric Esch-sized body of evidence that Mitt Romney is a louse, but I think the scurvy wellspring of his suckiness can essentially be summed up as such: he is the archetypal American politician (no, I don’t care that he’s Mormon), and if you identified him as such,... Read more »
Kate Woodsome from Voice of America has put together a collection of Chen Guangcheng images on Storify, a meticulously sourced list that I’m sure will continue to grow. A reader passed along this petition urging the U.S. to provide asylum for Chen. And if you’re able to flip over the Great Firewall, check out 墨镜.肖像 Dark... Read more »
Earlier today, Buzzfeed published a winning post titled “42 Things You’ll Only See In China.” They just followed it up with “53 Reasons Why Asians Are The Superior Race,” with pictures like the above (disclosure: don’t know if the toddler is Chinese). Some of the photos you’ve undoubtedly already seen, like Kunming’s dwarf village and the 1,050-slice... Read more »
We could've found the Youku original video, but this is better: listening to Germans snicker at the video of a pedicab getting demolished on an intersection in China. "Better" is a word up for interpretation here, of course.
By RFH WTF moments are frequent in China; they can happen just reading a newspaper. Today’s chin-scratcher occurred on page five of the Global Times, where, sandwiched between an only mildly splenetic front-page story about Chen Guangcheng (Chen will not have “any problems as long as he obeys the law and expresses his demands lawfully,”... Read more »
By RFH When is a book not a book? When it is written in the mind, perhaps, or when it is written by a politician. My proposed book about modern China has been somewhat taken over by events, but it had all the makings of good satire. The location: in a country dedicated to GDP growth,... Read more »
