A possibly mentally unstable foreign man took off all his clothes and streaked through Beijing Capital International Airport’s Terminal 3 yesterday afternoon, chased after by two shouting policemen.

That last detail is provided by Legal Mirror, but the man doesn’t appear to be running or chased in the above picture posted to Sina Weibo. Although if a picture exists, it means there has to be a video, right?

Eventually the man was corralled and covered up with a blanket. Authorities say he was schizophrenic, so they sent him to the hospital. The man might have come unhinged by an argument on the airport shuttle train, when he refused to let a Chinese passenger sit in an open seat next to him.

And with this, we introduce a new tag: streaking.

Also, if you’re type to follow where curiosity may lead, try a Chinese image search for “Beijing Airport Naked” on Baidu. Wacky results.

Man runs naked through Beijing Airport (SCMP)

That last video we just put up of a man streaking outside the Nobel Banquet Hall in Stockholm wasn’t just some prankster after a laugh, or a drunk man who’d lost his wits. It was part of a coordinated protest featuring none other than Liao Yiwu, author of The Corpse Walker and the recipient of this year’s German Peace Prize. He’s the one wearing a black overcoat who ushers the streaker, Meng Huang, over the cordon, and then tells him (clearly audible in the video) to “run.”

Apparently Liao, who lives in Berlin in exile, travelled to Stockholm on Monday with Meng, an artist, according to Scandinavia Today. Sven-Erik Olsson, a spokesperson for the Swedish head police, said Meng was rowdy and drunk, but those charges have since been disputed.

SVT News reports that a photographer on site, Mikael Eriksson, said he smelled absolutely no alcohol on Liao when they hugged before the streaking happened, and that “they both behaved calmly and in good faith.”

Apparently Liao and Meng were at the ceremony to see whether Nobel Prize in Literature recipient Mo Yan would present an empty chair for jailed dissident Liu Xiaobo. The empty chair was first placed for Liu at the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize award ceremony in Oslo, Norway to symbolize his absence because he was serving an 11-year prison sentence in China.

When no chair was brought out, Liao and Meng sprung into action.

Liao, who spent four years in a Chinese labor camp himself, has been one of the most vocal critics of Mo winning the Nobel. Asked if he’s met Mo, he replied:

Yes, he once visited Chengdu and we met there. After that there were a number of opportunities for us to meet but he always avoided me. He knows that he represents a superficial China, one that can seem very glossy. Whereas I stand for a grassroots China, its dregs, its dirt.

As quoted in Sweden’s major daily, Dagens Nyheter, he called Mo’s award “the Nobel prize’s biggest dishonor in a hundred years.” And as paraphrased by the BBC, Liao said he was “shocked that Mo Yan won, because he is too closely associated with the establishment.”

He’s now taken things into his own hands. The news, for whatever reason, has yet to spread to English-speaking media. We’ll see if that changes soon.

UPDATE, 4:09 pm: A translation of that SVT (Swedish state television) story comes via one of our readers:

There were absolutely no signs of intoxication, says SVT Culture News photographer Mikael Eriksson.

The background story to the nude action, which attracted a lot of attention last night, involved Liao Yiwu, Meng Huang and an additional regime critic who had planned a protest action against Mo Yan being awarded the Nobel prize.

The plan was to bring a chair for Mo Yan to give to the jailed dissident Liu Xiaobo. It would symbolise the empty chair meant for Xiaobo when he could not attend the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony in 2010, due to him being in jail.

But since the chair never arrived, the artist trio decided to perform a different action. In central Stockholm, Huang got undressed and jumped the fence, dashing toward the concert hall, cheered on by Liao Yiwu (the man in the black coat in the video).

We only know what Sohu tells us: woman is in her 30s, walking along Beijing West Road in Guiyang, Guizhou province, clothing in her left hand, shoes in her right. Looks like it’s raining. Chilly, perhaps. Police arrive eventually, and nothing else needs to be seen.

Previously in mysterious public nudity: White Woman Walks Naked Through Downtown Kunming

Following up on our post earlier today featuring a naked man riding a bicycle, here’s a naked woman walking down Culture Lane yesterday evening in Kunming, Yunnan province. Key of China Hush brings us this picture via ifeng. As Key reports:

Netizens made fun, this foreign woman “expressed her bossiness”, “This world is too crazy, at least wear something!!! The weather in Kunming will give you a cold.”  “Is this teaching everyone ‘sex is zero’?” “You won’t understand her world.”

Some people also said being naked in crowed downtown area is really indecent. “It is a public place, there were so many children there too.”  “Why don’t the police do something?” “Lacking in moral integrity!”

In addition, Netizen also revealed that the foreign woman is an Italian student studying at a medical school in Yunnan.

She also has a wicked farmer’s tan. Just sayin’.

It seems unlikely there aren’t more pictures and at least — at least – one video floating out there. If you’ve seen any, please pass them along. tips@beijingcream.com

Yesterday Earlier in the day at Henley-on-Thames, a naked man holding a fake Olympic torch ran ahead of the real Olympic torch route, basically in front of the whole town. A streaker in England? How is that possible?

According to the London Evening Standard, the man had “Free Tibet” written on his back. He was quickly tackled by police, as you see in the above. There’s another video after the jump, from a different angle, in high definition. Both are borderline NSFW, but the HD one probably slightly more so.

Youku censors have blocked the video. I wonder: for the nudity, or that other thing?