Friday Links: China’s Steve Jobs, Jeremy Lin, and a chengguan who does not give one shit

By Anthony Tao July 20, 2012 8:01 pm   Comments: 0

Via Buzzfeed‘s “The 50 Cutest Things That Ever Happened” Hanggai is playing at 2 Kolegas tonight, and you should go. Links will always be here.

Mid-Week Links: Police confuse blow-up sex doll for real human, Xinhua sets American politicians straight, and influential Chinese papers muzzled

By Anthony Tao July 18, 2012 8:00 pm   Comments: 1

Via Daily Mail We salute you, good readers. Here are links.

Top-of-the-Week Links: Liu Xiang withdraws from race, awful piranha hunt scrapped, and Du Chuanwang update

By Anthony Tao July 16, 2012 8:00 pm   Comments: 3

It’s been a slow day and a slow weekend, which just means we’re going to be hit with a huge news wave this week. Brace yourselves over links.

Friday Links: US consulate Weibo deleted, chengguan gang-beat woman, and “Mainland Hotties”

By Anthony Tao July 13, 2012 8:00 pm   Comments: 1

Via Disgrasian Friday the 13th! Unrelated: links.

Mid-Week Links: Censorship taken too far is just douchebaggery, a proposed tricameral legislature for China (utopia!), and a Fang Binxing story

By Anthony Tao July 11, 2012 7:00 pm   Comments: 12

China’s Olympic 396-member squad is set. Let us commemorate with links.

Top-of-the-Week Links: Masked beach-goers, a modern Chinese tragedy, and proof that even God loves bacon

By Anthony Tao July 9, 2012 7:10 pm   Comments: 0

Image from Reuters, via The Atlantic Wire Friday was International Kissing Day, and on Saturday FC Guoan won 1-0 at home vs. Guangzhou Evergrande. It all makes sense: here are links.

Friday Links: Tianjin mall fire, Peter Hessler interview, and new iPad game: kill Japanese, defend Diaoyu Islands

By Anthony Tao July 6, 2012 7:00 pm   Comments: 0

Holy Higgs boson, everyone, what a week. We’ll outro into the weekend in a bit, but for now, links.

Mid-Week Links: Hong Kong is apparently world’s best city, gaokao superstars, and the Beijinger’s music competition

By Anthony Tao July 4, 2012 8:00 pm   Comments: 0

Daily Mail caption: Bizarre: As two boozed-up men were waiting outside the Mayho Chinese Takeaway in Sunderland they noticed that peeling paint and dirt on the door appeared to form the face of Jesus. Try not to be too stereotypically American tonight, you Americans in China, okay? Ah who am I kidding, go booze your... Read more »

Top-of-the-Week Links: CY Leung spares us from Cantonese, Chinese NY Times up against censors, and “the year’s saddest terrorists”

By Anthony Tao July 2, 2012 8:32 pm   Comments: 8

Congratulations to Spain, the best soccer team we’ve seen in our lifetimes. Unless you’re old. In which case, debate away… over links.

Friday Links: Bloomberg’s almost-controversial Xi Jinping story, The Gray Lady in China, and introducing: The English Chinese New York Times

By Anthony Tao June 29, 2012 11:59 pm   Comments: 0

A crane falls in Xi’an, crushing cars [Sohu] We’re bumping the musical outro to tomorrow morning. China news never ceases — here’re links to prove it.