Kate Woodsome from Voice of America has put together a collection of Chen Guangcheng images on Storify, a meticulously sourced list that I’m sure will continue to grow. A reader passed along this petition urging the U.S. to provide asylum for Chen. And if you’re able to flip over the Great Firewall, check out 墨镜.肖像 Dark... Read more »Read more »
Earlier today, Buzzfeed published a winning post titled “42 Things You’ll Only See In China.” They just followed it up with “53 Reasons Why Asians Are The Superior Race,” with pictures like the above (disclosure: don’t know if the toddler is Chinese). Some of the photos you’ve undoubtedly already seen, like Kunming’s dwarf village and the 1,050-slice... Read more »Read more »
Last weekend, Yugongyishan, a miniature dungeon-style music venue hidden behind a wooden door near Zhangzizhong Road, brought a hip-hop legend, a man with a name of such repute that you quasi-expect him to show up in a red cape and mask with turntables strapped to his back, his superpower being the ability to spin tracks and scratch vinyls that forces enemies to dance (think Jim Carrey's The Mask when he sings his samba/Latin song and all the cops break out in song and dance). Read more »
We could've found the Youku original video, but this is better: listening to Germans snicker at the video of a pedicab getting demolished on an intersection in China. "Better" is a word up for interpretation here, of course. Read more »
By RFH WTF moments are frequent in China; they can happen just reading a newspaper. Today’s chin-scratcher occurred on page five of the Global Times, where, sandwiched between an only mildly splenetic front-page story about Chen Guangcheng (Chen will not have “any problems as long as he obeys the law and expresses his demands lawfully,”... Read more »Read more »
By RFH When is a book not a book? When it is written in the mind, perhaps, or when it is written by a politician. My proposed book about modern China has been somewhat taken over by events, but it had all the makings of good satire. The location: in a country dedicated to GDP growth,... Read more »Read more »
