An Unfortunate, Fantastic Choice Of Typography

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Via Reddit, here’s a movie poster for a Chinese rom-com called Love in the Buff, a sequel to Love in a Puff. While we eagerly await its sequel, Red-Bean Duff: Steamed-Bun Love, let us pause a second to muse over the brilliance of the lavender-pink font. It’s just so right, and full of spunk, encapsulating the... Read more »

Here’s How One Prominent Chinese Website Chose To Censor Boobs

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We just gave you our take on Topless New York, a Kickstarter Project that (desperately) needs your help. Now we’d like to un-ironically inform you that while America doesn’t seem to give a left tit about boobs in public — there’s risk of overexposure, kind of like having candy corn every week instead of just... Read more »

Pole Dancers Galore, On Beijing Subway And In Zeta Bar

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Where to begin? Zeta Bar in Hilton Beijing held its fourth pole-dancing competition on Saturday in collaboration with Love Show Studio, the self-proclaimed “Beijing’s No. 1 pole-dancing school.” Local nightlife blogger Jim Boyce informs us the winners were “Ms. Zhenzhen,” as chosen by judges, and “Ms. Vivi,” as chosen by the audience. We’re not sure... Read more »

American Man Stabbed In Ass In Qianmen

Ow?
Missed this yesterday: China Daily ran this in their “In Brief” section at 8:09 am: A US man was attacked by a knife-wielding assailant in downtown Beijing on Wednesday afternoon, according to local police. The man was stabbed in the buttocks by a 61-year-old Chinese man in Qianmen. The suspect, Wang Taicun from Shandong province,... Read more »

Mid-Week Links: Monkey-butt licking, Chinese media wants war with Philippines?, and apparently Bo Guagua really never has driven a Ferrari

Chinese political freedom
Via Tea Leaf Nation  We promised interesting non-Chen Guangcheng links in our Chen Guangcheng links post, but we start with one more bit of Chen news: according to Beijing activist @zengjinyan, Chen never wanted to leave the US Embassy, but his wife told him he should otherwise she and their children would be “sent back to... Read more »

Absolutely No One Asked For Video Of Li Yingzhi At The Beijing Auto Show, So Here It Is

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You may remember Li Yingzhi as the model who wore a diamond dress at this year's Beijing International Automotive show (aka Auto China) worth 100 million yuan. (Here are several pictures of her via Ministry of Tofu.) Last week, a video surfaced of Ms. Li, accompanied by some serious softcore porn music. Behind all that makeup and those diamonds, there's a human being somewhere. A human being bedecked in diamonds.

And Here Are Sora Aoi’s Breasts [SFW]

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As sometimes happens when the prigs over at the State Administration of Radio Film and Television (SARFT) get bored, they make an announcement. The recent one was a reiteration that vulgarity and scandal are not to be allowed on television, and just to prove they’re serious, they more or less singled out former AV star Sora... Read more »

Yishus: In Which Lola Coins The Term “Frivolititties”

Lucian Freud's painting of Bella, his daughter
I’m not sure how the topic came up, but over drinks at a newish bar on Beiluoguxiang, a few friends and I started discussing nudity and a certain sans-vêtements Beijing summer gathering last year (if you didn’t hear about it, your loss). “Oh, we were only naked, it was no big deal,” my friend repeated after... Read more »