Around dawn yesterday in Wenling, Zhejiang province, a factory belonging to Wanjia Shoe Company erupted into flames, according to Sohu (more pictures after the jump). The building served as storage for raw shoe-making materials such as glue, half-finished products, and apparently a whole lot of flammables, because the place exploded five separate times. More than five... Read more »Read more »
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: a group of Ferraris road race on a Chinese highway; crash; disintegrate into a thousand pieces. Around 3:30 pm today on the Shaanxi Baomao Highway in Ansai County, Shaanxi province, witnesses say they saw about a dozen Ferraris traveling at absurdly fast speeds. Two of them bumped... Read more »Read more »
Xi Jinping, you’ve made it: the cover story of Time Magazine, by Hannah Beech (paywalled). You feel that cold, Beijing? Seeps and settles in the bones, doesn’t it? Until the day central heating comes on, winter is here. Links. Read more »
As plain as rain, our columnist TAR Nation kind of dislikes Hu Xijin, the editor-in-chief of Global Times. But let us sing the human qualities of Hu Xijin, for one minute. Let us acknowledge Hu Xijin’s errors, while also acknowledging that to err is to be a child of God, which he is, and commensurately... Read more »Read more »
Hu “The Gelded Fuckwit” Xijin took a moment this week to remind everyone that no one should pay any attention whatsoever to the Nobel Prize, unless it is won by a Chinese person that has yet to get in trouble.
Having hated the West, Westerners, the Nobel Prize and human thought for his entire “journalistic” career, Hu “The Pitiless Twat” Xijin was surprised by the Nobel Committee’s choice. Read more »
Misunderstandings happen, we get that, but most of the time they’re harmless and can be waved off with a smile and a chuckle. Yet every occasionally, there’s this… here’s the lead from a Shanghai Daily article this morning: Local police yesterday refuted widespread rumors suggesting that a five-year-old girl was forced to sell sex to foreigners after... Read more »Read more »
Via Global Times In Chengdu on Friday, a sleuth of teddy bears took the subway Line 2 to promote public transportation on the opening day of a teddy bear museum. It all sounds cute unless you’re arcotophobic, in which case: BUGGY MISERABLE TORTURE. (H/T Alicia) Read more »
The Chinese man who tried to open an emergency exit door mid-flight, thinking it was a bathroom, now has company in the Hall of Notorious Fliers. On a flight from Shenzhen to Xi’an on Friday morning, a first-time air traveler decided he wanted some fresh air, so he demanded the person next to him open... Read more »Read more »
Beijing News reports that on Friday afternoon, a foreigner got drunk at a downtown hotel, slashed a server with a kitchen knife, carjacked a minibus black Buick, crashed into four other vehicles, and hit a pedestrian. Then he tried to flee by foot before two passersby and a police officer subdued him. Several witnesses said they... Read more »Read more »
