People rioted in Luzhou, Sichuan province on Wednesday evening after they heard that police had beaten a truck driver to death in broad daylight. Tea Leaf Nation relayed several messages from incensed netizens who never doubted it, notably from a Sina Weibo user, @Aluo阿罗, who declared, “Luzhou police have beaten someone to death, causing tens of thousands... Read more »Read more »
This bizarre and awkwardly beautiful sculpture appeared in Shiyan, Hubei province recently, titled something like “The Expression of Sex” (alternatively, “Sexual Expression,” or something to that effect). While considered outré by local standards, I believe its artistic merits justify the more vulgar elements, i.e. the flaunting flesh, for in this carving I see the contemporary acrobatics... Read more »Read more »
UPDATE, 2/20/13, 2:47 am: On February 15, Robert McDowell emailed us his side of the story: that he was drugged, a fact that “everyone knows.” He claimed the girl confessed. “If I was a rapist then I would be in jail right now,” he wrote. We’ve removed the image of him first found on The Nanfang.... Read more »Read more »
A bus carrying 48 people, 46 of whom were students on their way to Yongzhou’s Daxian county in Hunan province to take an exam, drove off a 30-meter cliff yesterday at around 5 pm in Yongzhou. Two students died instantly, and two more died after failed medical treatment. Three more are severely injured. Once again,... Read more »Read more »
The wife and son of famous painter Li Laoshi, who killed himself by jumping off a building in 1996, were caught on taught recently in a nasty, violent brawl that left the wife seriously injured.
The timestamp on the video says September 21, but this was posted to Youku just two days ago and has already been viewed 1.5 million times. You'll see a dispute turn violent quickly, with both parties wielding weapons. (Perhaps the cause was over the vehicles blocking the road?) Read more »
Rappelling has never had a finer day.
On Tuesday afternoon, a fire department in Xining, Qinghai province in western China fielded a call about a man who was threatening to kill himself after a domestic dispute. When rescue workers arrived, they found him on the ledge of a bedroom window, both feet dangling outside, and clutching a two-year-old child in his arms. Was he planning on jumping with the toddler to make this a suicide-murder? And all because of a disagreement with his wife, as Xinhua reports? Read more »
Jon Huntsman, the one-time presidential hopeful and former US ambassador to China, has probably said more sensible things about China to more Americans in the last year than just about anyone in the world. It was only earlier this year, after all, that he trashed his own party’s approach to China, saying, “I don’t know what... Read more »Read more »
“If there are lessons to be learned from the sexpo, perhaps one is to be careful how you use your newly purchased toy,” notes RFH at the end of his story for Danwei about the Guangzhou Sex Culture Festival. If only this 30-year-old man in Shanghai had gotten the memo. A stomach-rumbling tale via Shanghai Daily: Doctors at Zhongshan Hospital... Read more »Read more »
Gotta say, I love the way netizens treat serious news stories here: with equally serious music. Can you feel your heartbeat as you watch this photo slideshow? Again, I call on you good people to help identify the theme song. Fifteen people on a bus were injured after it got struck by a cargo-hauling train... Read more »Read more »
