“China vs. The Philippines,” via Tea Leaf Nation Just saw Bad Panda at Penghao Theater, and it wasn’t half bad. Two more nights to go, for you Beijingers. Links for everyone else.
At a carwash in Shanghai [Netease via Ministry of Tofu] Have you voted in the BJC Bar and Club Awards yet? If no, why not? While you self-flagellate for your offense, here’re links.
Photo by AFP via BBC the Atlantic (H/T David B) We launched our Bar and Club Awards earlier today. Take a moment to go look at the categories and vote if you haven’t yet. Then, links.
I’m in Tianjin this weekend, so if Beijing burns while BJC posts videos of fiddlers, please note it would only be a coincidence. Here’re Chen Guangcheng links.
If you’re in Beijing and not doing anything tonight, there’s a “Star Wars Party” hosted by Snap Adventures that begins at 10 pm at 4corners to commemorate May the Fourth (get it?). (Some of the BJC gang will be there, so come say hi.) By buying drinks, one collects “tokens” with which to buy trivia questions,... Read more »
Via Tea Leaf Nation We promised interesting non-Chen Guangcheng links in our Chen Guangcheng links post, but we start with one more bit of Chen news: according to Beijing activist @zengjinyan, Chen never wanted to leave the US Embassy, but his wife told him he should otherwise she and their children would be “sent back to... Read more »
Went on BBC World Service’s World Have Your Say show again this evening to talk about Chen Guangcheng with some bloggers you’ll recognize, including C. Custer of China Geeks and Yaxue Cao of Seeing Red in China. By the way, there are many great stories related to China from these past two days that have nothing... Read more »
