Showcasing the best in Asian-related memes. Above via China Media Project: "Following a report in December 2013 by the Beijing News about poor migrants living in underground wells in the capital’s Chaoyang District because they could not afford housing there, local authorities sent teams to seal the well entrances with concrete."
Why is China threatening to expel foreign correspondents? Old-fashioned intimidation, says the New Yorker's Evan Osnos, still writing incisively in absentia. (A lesson for you, China: journalists can churn even when they don't live here.) His latest analysis of China's ongoing crackdown on media is worth a complete read, but let us highlight this paragraph:
Jon Stewart tackled China again on a recent episode of The Daily Show -- more specifically, the belief harbored among some (who are you people?) that China's recent rover moon-landing somehow threatens American national security or identity or dominance or something. He squeezes in a joke about Chinese voting.
A study to be released this week by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences reports that cats first lived alongside humans as early as 5,300 years ago in the Chinese village of Quanhucun in modern-day Shaanxi province.
The above is only marginally China/Chinese related, but there is so much genius here that you'll excuse me. Every parent should assign grades to his of her kid's work that supplements the teacher's grade, and so many of these deserve A's.
This might look ridiculous, but it's actually the most sensible work schedule the Chinese government has released in recent memory. I mean, compared to this past year...
