Just as we were talking about chengguan, the Twitter feed of That’s Mandarin tipped us to a video “going viral right now” of more than a dozen middle school students in Zaozhuang, Shandong province beating up a chengguan, who are unofficially this country’s “city management officers” and more unofficially this country’s street thugs disguised as people with... Read more »
Three views to an accident. This past Friday, we told you about a police car utterly demolished under the wheels of a tourism bus in Beijing, and reported that there was one fatality. Apologies for being late with this update, but according to China Daily via Sina, published Saturday: The officer who was killed worked in... Read more »
It’s relatively safe to assume very few people in Guangdong care about the weather in Ukraine and Poland. Perhaps some soccer fans would rue a game getting postponed due to thunderstorms, but more likely, I think, they’d be relieved by the fact that they can go to sleep instead, since games are played at the... Read more »
Last week, we saw a dog nurse three kittens. Not to be outdone, a hero bitch in Shangdong province has taken it upon herself to nurse four of a much larger species of cat. On the same day that she gave birth to two puppies, Laifu was asked (forced?) by wildlife zoo attendants in Rongcheng to nurse four white tiger cubs whose mother, Afang, had abandoned them.
Just when you thought the media coverage would stop, Blue Ocean Network steps up.
This six-minute news feature on Ultimate Frisbee, centered around last month's Beijing-hosted China Nationals tournament, is one of the better segments on the sport I've seen anywhere (kudos to Howard Pan, who listened closely to tournament director Alicia). For an additional 38 seconds of bonus footage, click here.
It was only last Sunday that a kid in Guangdong province wandered onto his balcony and fell through a crack, and might have plummeted to serious injury if not for a Good Samaritan who climbed out of his window to help. Two days ago, the exact same thing appears to have happened in Guangxi province.... Read more »
This past Monday was National Hug Your Cat Day. If you didn’t know that, you’re already less of a cat lover than this dog here, a five-year-old in Shandong who was recently found nursing three tiny creatures. Her owners initially thought they were puppies, but upon closer inspection, they discovered that the infants were actually... Read more »
Last Thursday, Italian designer Giorgio Armani held a show at 798 Art District in Beijing that was attended by 1,000 guests and stars such as Tina Turner, Mary J. Blige, Michelle Yeoh, and Fan Bingbing. Judging by those guests, the show must have been special — something about a decade-plus of Armani products in China.... Read more »
Lang Lang, who turns 30 next week, performed outside Buckingham Palace on Monday for the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Concert, featuring Paul McCartney, Stevie Wonder, Elton John and others. The main song in Lang Lang's medley was Franz Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody in Blue #6, which seamlessly transitioned into George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue. Kid's got some skills.
