Shanghai Calling is a movie about a confident, ambitious, career-minded Chinese American named Sam who gets called into his New York law firm’s office one day and told he’s in for some “big news.” As he prepares to humbly accept what he believes is a promotion, he’s told, “We’re sending you to China!” Uh-oh. China... Read more »Read more »
Jeremy Lin moves the needle. Check out this fight between Richard Sandomir and Darren Rovell on Twitter, inspired by a tweet that makes an askew (by which I mean slanty-eyed*, of fucking course) reference to Lin: Read more »
Among the other things that happen: the real-life character battling the chalkboard figure becomes impregnated by said cannonball after it slingshots out of said condom. Then his fist turns into a rocket that flies into an electrical socket — he is electrocuted but doesn’t die. The chalkboard figure performs a Mortal Kombat-like finishing move that... Read more »Read more »
Via Ministry of Tofu: “A vivid portrayal of the Chinese society: The upper class is doing the splits (slang for two-timing); the middle class is being brainwashed; the lower class is awaiting their doom.” On this, the day that car ownership in Beijing surpassed 5 million, here are your links for the weekend. Read more »
Beijing Cream is officially in soft launch. Bear with us as we make final adjustments. Posting will be sporadic until after the weekend, which is why this space is clean of Bodhisattva Jeremy Lin links this morning. Check out our about page if you’re as eager as we are. Big things are afoot in China blogging. Read more »
Just when you thought this saga couldn't get crazier, Jeremy Lin leads the Knicks back from a double-digit deficit and hits the game-winning bucket near the buzzer. I've never seen an NBA crowd cheer its home team's loss quite like this. Read more »
Well. This is kind of adorable. I don’t mean the dog, named Malachy, which won Best in Show on Tuesday night. I mean this lead from the Associated Press: “A bobbing little pompom put on a peak performance at the Westminster Kennel Club.” Read more »
