Did you know the musical Cats has a Mandarin version, and is currently in Beijing? It debuted in Shanghai in August before swinging by Guangzhou and Chongqing, and 100 shows later, is now playing at Century Theater in this city.
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgxGtN-AT7I] Shocking surveillance footage, recently released, shows a woman basically exploding because she happened to stand next to a sewage drain during an underground explosion. The incident happened on November 30 outside the east gate of Chaoyang District’s Taiyanggong State Fair.
If the story of a shark tank bursting onto pedestrians wasn’t enough, we now have video! The folks over at Deadspin posted this earlier, and yeah, it sort of makes the story. Without it, we only have a shark tank breaking. With it, there’s drama, horror.
In Yongkang, Zhejiang province last Friday, a 31-year-old millionaire named Du Guanghua had dinner with an employee who got a bit too drunk and fell into a river. Du dove after his colleague, 20-year-old Zhao Shengxi. Only one of them came out of the water alive.
I work as preschool rock star in Qingdao. Our annual New Year’s production is coming up and it’s a big deal. Preschool competition is tight and parents shop around. As the only foreign teacher at our branch (200+ kids ages 2 to 6), I have to find something English for them to do in the... Read more »
In Chengdu on Friday at around 8 pm, a man surnamed Cai, 37, suddenly stood up and ignited a string of firecrackers in his bag, reason unknown. The driver, surnamed Huang, stopped the bus and let everyone out, but closed the door on Cai. Other passengers can be seen restraining him until the cops arrived.
State media is reporting that state media aired a documentary on Tibetan self-immolations on Sunday. Here are the opening paragraphs of Xinhua’s story about China Central Television: National broadcaster China Central Television (CCTV) has released a documentary on self-immolation in the country’s Tibetan-inhabited areas.
Lan Gui, 50, a vagabond artist who's been traveling from city to city for more than 20 years, is probably best known for his street Mona Lisas. It's not perfect, but for a chalk etching on a random sidewalk, no one's complaining.
Unless you’re Michael Fischer, who strung together these pictures of Beijing men exposing their round bellies to the heat. It’s the video we’ve all thought of making at some point in time – our cartoonist Torval has been talking about a similar “Babes of Beijing” calendar for a year now. Obviously this video would’ve been more... Read more »
