A woman in Handan, Hebei province has been getting lots of press recently for her ability to write with both hands at the same time in English and Chinese. Ambidextrous squared, then. (Can we call her a tesseract?) Read more »
In Stockholm on Monday, on the night of the Nobel banquet, a man dashed butt-naked through the cold and snow, his ebullient battle cry resonating across the dark Swedish night. Wherefore?
According to SVT News (via Notes on the Mosquito, a website about the poetry of Xi Chuan), the streaker was protesting Mo Yan winning the Nobel Prize in Literature. (We don't know Swedish, but we see very clearly after putting the article through Google Translate that Mo Yan is involved.) He was also very drunk, which most people have to be to denude in subfreezing temperatures. Read more »
The abusive teacher in Guangzhou who threw four-year-old Yao Yao on her head earlier this year won’t be teaching anymore any time soon, or doing much else. “We’re not sure what the penalty is for toddler assault. Whatever it is, it’ll probably be too civilized,” I wrote back then. The penalty is now in: the teacher,... Read more »Read more »
Changes are afoot at Beijing Cream. Specifically, we’ve outgrown our current site design, a relatively minimalist theme called Chunk, and very soon we’ll be rolling out our new look with its nifty features. I’ll save the details for later, but suffice to say it’ll enable us to do much more with the space here. To... Read more »Read more »
Ed’s note: The one you’ve been waiting for: The Good Doctor follows more than 100 merry Santas during the December 8 Beijing SantaCon. What is the collective noun for Santas? I’m not exactly sure, but we definitely need one after this. The music is Santa Claus Is Coming To Town, performed by the Tracson 5. Previously: Behind the Scenes... Read more »Read more »
If you're in Nanjing today, you probably heard them: sirens that began at 10 am and lasted 33 minutes to commemorate the 250,000 to 300,000 killed during the Nanjing Massacre. Read more »
An English teacher at Guangdong Medical University is now an Internet darling for his rendition of the Chinese song "A Brighter Future" by Beyond. The 10-minute video, posted to 56.com (after the jump) five days ago, has been viewed more than 1.1 million times. Read more »
Brent Huffman, a documentary maker and professor at Northwestern’s Medill (School of Journalism), is working on a film to bring exposure to the ancient Buddhist city of Mes Aynak in Afghanistan, set to be destroyed by a proposed copper mine. Archaeologists have been working restlessly under dangerous conditions to save all that they can before... Read more »Read more »
