China is an interesting place.
On Sunday in Ningguo, Anhui province, a thief slit the throat of a female high school student in broad daylight, killing her, and then stabbed another woman. The city immediately set up a task force of more than 100 people to investigate. Three hours after the crimes, they identified their suspect, and yesterday arrested him in Hangzhou in neighboring Zhejiang province. Read more »
Maybe one can put a price on a child’s education? If you’re Gerald and Lily Chow of Hong Kong, that price happens to be $2.2 million. That’s how much the pair reportedly spent over four years on a Cambridge, Mass.-based education consultancy that basically guaranteed their two sons would get accepted to Harvard. The investment... Read more »Read more »
Asian YouTube sensation Kevin (of channel kevjumba) has a new video, and it features his Instagram-loving, high-expectations Asian dad (PapaJumba), and Jeremy Lin. The real Jeremy Lin, who signed with the Houston Rockets in the offseason and is expected to continue assuming his mantle as the most famous Asian basketball player in the world. The skit nails some stereotypes on the head. Kevin trying to say "I don't know" in Chinese is probably the best part (it's so, so consciously bad!), especially in light of Lin's surprisingly decent Mandarin. I wonder how long he practiced his lines. Read more »
By Pyrrhic Victor Yesterday morning, People’s Daily went full defensive over “irresponsible remarks” regarding China’s Varyag Liaoning aircraft carrier. The article kicks off in true PD fashion, with a title befitting an elementary student who’s been told to shut up and stop showing off his new toy: Stop making irresponsible remarks about China’s aircraft carrier... Read more »Read more »
A strange incident happened at Liaoning province's Dalu (Moose) Island in Donggang City on October 5, as brought to light by a video posted yesterday to Youku (embedded after the jump) titled, "Liaoning Dalu Island scenic area security guards lock door, gang-beat tourists." As security guards swarm the vacationers, dividing and conquering, someone on the other side of a metal gate yells, "What are you guys doing? Stop fighting!" And then a slightly older (wiser?) security guard goes over to the gate, closes it, and locks it while the beating continues. "That's enough, stop beating. Why you playin'?" a woman asks from behind the camera. No reply. More "playing" ensues. Read more »
Back on August 24, weeks before people would double down on Diaoyu Islands senselessness, four protesters took to the streets in Shenzhen to urge "civilized patriotism, rational Japanese resistance." Three of them wore swimwear -- bikinis for the two girls, briefs for the man -- and attracted attention as much for their message as their appearance. We posted about it here, with a video. Read more »
Resident Sina Weibo expert Liz Carter of Tea Lea Nation has been — for some mysterious reason that we should not question — tweeting Gangnam Style statistics in the last hour, we can only imagine furiously. In the following tripartite of infograph tweets, we learn that: 1. All things considered, China was quite slow to grasp... Read more »Read more »
The Guangzhou Sex Culture Festival ended Monday, but we have a couple more related items in the pipeline. For now, check BJC Editor-at-Large RFH’s dispatch about the three-day event in The Times: There’s not much actual sex going on at the 10th Annual Guangzhou International Sex Culture Festival – pornography, prostitution and public nudity are... Read more »Read more »
Surely you'll recall there was a disturbingly bloody subway fight yesterday in Guangzhou involving an elderly man getting the better of a younger combatant despite bleeding from the face. Would you believe, after getting mauled by the elderly man's teeth, the other man, surnamed Wu, has apologized? Read more »
