Less than an hour after posting about the upheaval in Zuotan, Foshan, Guangdong province, I realized there was a bigger, concurrent riot in the province, in Zhongshan City. According to NetEase via the website Democracy and Law Network, the fight started Monday around 6 pm when, in front of a primary school, a 13-year-old got beat up... Read more »
I'll try my best to walk you through what happens here, with help from Yimeng Evening News's June 20 edition (story is pasted onto this Youku video, which appears after the jump, uploaded three days ago and currently with 1.3 million views).
Leehom Wang wasn’t the only Chinese Olympic torchbearer in Manchester on Saturday — there was also news anchor Bai Yansong, for instance — but Wang was most definitely the only Chinese torchbearer to make all the Chinese ladies in the crowd shriek their minds out. He was also probably the only torchbearer to do an... Read more »
The New York Times reported last week, citing Pew Research Center, that, "Asians have surpassed Hispanics as the largest wave of new immigrants to the United States, pushing the population of Asian descent to a record 18.2 million and helping to make Asians the fastest-growing racial group in the country." It didn't take long for Stephen Colbert of the Colbert Report to respond to this "threat," first suggesting a "Super Awesome Wall of China," and when he realized that wouldn't work, electrified steel floors around America to prevent Chinese immigrants from digging their way in.
Remember Alicia's duck story last week? It eventually made its way to a whole lot of news outlets, which is curious, because just today I realized there's a video of "5,000 ducks" in China from April 2009. Strange how the news cycle works, right? And it's interesting how a story can remain obscure for so long just because it happened in a rural part of the country. To summarize what we think happened:
It's strange what goes viral and what doesn't. It seems this video was first posted on Youku seven days ago, then transferred to 56.com (unclear whether by the same person). On Youku, by far the bigger website, this video has 430 views. On 56.com: 334,000.
The original video description simply reads, "Old man, you're pretty awesome." I'll leave it at that.
Last week, we posted a video from Nice Peter called Chillin Panda Baby. What we failed to mention was that Nice Peter is sort of famous on the Internet for a series of amazing vids called “Epic Rap Battle,” each with millions and millions of views (like, 58 million, in the case of Darth Vadar... Read more »
On one hand, I want to call out this director for his whiny first-worldism and paranoia. But on the other hand, I can't imagine the brand of hell that is making a movie in China: the ribbons of red tape, the soul-searing bureaucracy, the endless baijiu banquets and bribing with cigarettes. We're never told what movie this director, Gil Kofman, was working on, or if he ever finished. But we do know that he made a film about the experience, ala Tropic Thunder ("The Making of Tropic Thunder" was the movie that won the Oscar in Tropic Thunder, as you'll remember). The trailer is above.
For a good minute, this video is comic. The dramatic music. The onlookers (one of them scratches his head). But then, at the 1:07 mark, a voice-over (huh?) tells us the rescuer is in position. Rescuer? A rappelling firefighter swings swiftly from one face of the building to the other, and grabs the potential suicide jumper. He gets some help from the people from the windows, who grab the jumper's arms and legs. And just like that, another life saved. All in a day's work.
Here’s a fun way to troll an entire city. In a country that forbids pornography, why not hook your laptop to an outdoor big screen and stream porn during evening rush hour? That’s exactly what one man did in Pingdingshan, Henan province on Tuesday, in what might be the greatest public prank China will see... Read more »
