Via MIC Gadget We hope you enjoyed the Elton John concert on Sunday as much as Ai Weiwei and friends. We have more coverage for you forthcoming, but for now, links.
White Collar Boxing was the biggest expat event of the weekend; more pictures via the Beijinger Need something to do tonight? Our music contributor highly recommends the show My Little Airport, which is playing at MAO Livehouse as part of its “Romantic” China tour. Again, that’s tonight. Otherwise, links.
White Collar Boxing in Beijing on Saturday, “Brawl on the Wall” (pic by Svante, via YJ) Monday was World Toilet Day and we did nothing with it. Here are your Thanksgiving eve links.
A dorm room, via The Nanfang Small links edition today because we have lots of content for tonight and into Tuesday, culminating in TAR Nation’s latest column. Here we go.
Via Telegraph: “China’s new Politburo Standing Committee members: Leader of China Communist Party Xi Jinping (centre), (clockwise from top left) Zhang Dejiang, Li Keqiang, Yu Zhengsheng, Liu Yunshan, Wang Qishan, Zhang Gaoli.” And we’re back — for now. We’ve been on autopilot for the last 19 hours. Please pardon us if we’ve missed any links.
Via Xinhua, of course One more day. One more day and the 18th Party Congress will be over, and we can celebrate our Internet speeds returning to normal. Bear with us through links.
This might be our longest links edition yet, thanks to foreign media caring so deeply about China’s power transition. (You foreign media!) We’re not linking to any Global Times silliness — TAR Nation will be by on Monday to take care of that.
Via Malcolm Moore The 18th National Congress starts tomorrow, and we will be live-tweeting the opening day with China Daily Show at hashtag #18PC. Join us, will you? Links now.
