This is different: In the still of the deep night, removing that mask of insincerity, we say to our true selves, “I am sorry.” Goodnight. The message, which first appeared on Beijing News’s Weibo, was in response to its anti-Chen Guangcheng editorial on Friday. The picture above is what accompanied the apology, truly a WTF... Read more »Read more »
Plenty of people nurse a healthy loathing of the “expat in Asia,” and in some instances, that antipathy is understandable, if not justified. (The image you want is of a mustachioed former mill owner, old and white, in Thailand. If you’d like to see some of these fellas here, try the bar Maggie’s.) Yet I’ve... Read more »Read more »
Alert: If you're a musician who knows how to play the guzheng, you should make a video, because it'll have a very good chance of going viral. First there was the Adele cover, followed by the Titanic theme song, then that "cultured Chengdu guard." Now? Just a traditional Chinese guzheng song... on iPads. Read more »
Via Buzzfeed‘s Jack Moore, apparently Jeremy Lin expressed his love of Fruit Roll-Ups on February 12 in a tweet. The company was so touched by this — or realized they were touched by it three days later, when Lin did this — that they constructed a replica of his jersey using just their product. That... Read more »Read more »
This was spotted in Nanjing in 2011 and posted on Sign Spotting, so you may think it’s a little dated, but we say there’s no time limit on a good puke pail. The English reads “Vomit Here,” but the Chinese is translated literally as “Sober Up Bucket.” (Where’re those Chinglish translations when you need them?) Let that be... Read more »Read more »
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. Read more »
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 »Read more »
Pic via National Confidential There is, to be sure, an Eric Esch-sized body of evidence that Mitt Romney is a louse, but I think the scurvy wellspring of his suckiness can essentially be summed up as such: he is the archetypal American politician (no, I don’t care that he’s Mormon), and if you identified him as such,... Read more »Read more »
