The Situation Is Excellent: Week In Review Archives

“The situation is excellent” is adapted from a quote often attributed to Mao Zedong: “There is great chaos under heaven — the situation is excellent” (天下大乱，形势大好). Here are the posts in blog view.

2012:

• February 26: Who is China Daily following? Shanghai Calling preview, CBA playoffs preview
• March 4: Panda erotic fiction, fun with Dashan
• March 11: Suicide in China, Lei Feng on a cross, the Beijinger’s six-word contest
• March 18: Soccer kid face-kick, Marbury accused of hitting fan, Mike Daisey
• March 25: CBA finals drama, Chinese gangster’s cell pics, a defense of Global Times
• April 1: RFH on Neil Heywood and the Bos; Beijing Ducks are champs!
• April 8: Stephon Marbury retrospective, Beijinger boiled alive
• April 15: Bo Xilai ousted, Titanic 3D fake quote (emphasis on fake)
• April 22: “A story about journalism,” Bo Xilai rumors, Boris Johnson on Weibo
• April 29: Where is CGC? Bo Guagua speaks in Crimson, pedestrian falls through sidewalk
• May 6: Chen Guangcheng leaves US embassy
• May 13: TAR on Chen Guangcheng, British national accused of rape, Melissa Chan evicted
• May 20: Bob Fu rant, Marbury statue, 100-day crackdown in Beijing
• May 27: Bar and Club Awards, stories of “ambiguous decency,” driving in China diagram
• June 3: “British rapist” deported, Sanlitun fight, Yoichi Shimatsu, Jonathan Kos-Read
• June 10: Hero bus driver in Hangzhou, horrible bus driver in Beijing; toddler rescue
• June 17: Seven-month abortion, gaokao questions, Louis CK review
• June 24: Sex mushroom, Hu Jintao and the Chinese flag, Henan public porn prank
• July 1: Real-life Frogger, vehicle plows into cyclists, Paul Mooney and SCMP
• July 8: Playground blogger fight, Shifang copper plant protests, escalator eats man
• July 15: Foreigner stabbed to death, old photographs of China/HK, Chinese GTA
• July 22: Beijing rainstorm, hostage-taker shot dead, China Daily sells out
• July 29: Bieber cow, slightly racist shirt, chuan’r story featuring tapeworms, Olympics
• August 5: Ye Shiwen and Olympic badminton controversies, Beijing Slice No. 1
• August 12: Liu Xiang, Gu Kailai trial, boy pees into cup, defenestration
• August 19: Chris Devonshire-Ellis, Zhou Kehua is dead, “My family runs the PSB!”
• August 26: Sculpture of pigs having sex, China’s happiest cities (Xinhua), yayaya girl
• September 2: Neil Bush on Sina Weibo, 770 lbs. of eggs, worst driver in the world
• September 9: Nipple requirement at beauty contest, Yangtze runs red, Ferrari cat
• September 16: Xi Jinping missing, Diaoyu Island protests, Good Samaritan beaten
• September 23: Diaoyu Islands, Utopia founder Han Deqiang, automatic sperm extractor
• September 30: Global Times plagiarism, foreign correspondents’ tweets, Gigi Chao
• October 7: Guangzhou Sex Culture Festival, Roger Federer beheaded, Beijing Design Week
• October 14: Mo Yan wins Nobel, Liaoning analysis, Guangzhou sex festival’s pole dancing
• October 21: Shanxi Ferrari crash, China Style vs. Laowai Style, return of TAR Nation
• October 28: Ai Weiwei’s Gangnam parody, fallopian tubes, Laowai Comics debut
• November 4: People’s Daily plagiarism, Ningbo PX, Jim Boyce’s Momo Monday
• November 11: National Congress, Obama’s penis > Romney’s, Maya Moore scores 60
• November 18: Andrea Yu, boy poops on Guangzhou subway, 5-year-olds as bikini models
• November 25: Five Bijie children, TAR’s profile of the censor-in-chief, CBA season-opener
• December 2: People’s Daily/The Onion/Kim Jong-un, unicorn lair, Chongqing sex scandal
• December 9: Drug dealer farewell, Alessandro, Mo Yan in Stockholm, Beijing SantaCon
• December 16: Liao Yiwu protests Mo Yan, 5-year-old run over, Tracy McGrady’s bad week
• December 23: King Tubby’s Blogging the Bloggers, Pyongyang Racing, backyard wrestling
• December 30: An Expat Christmas, “slave labor” letter, comment-section Christmas poem

2013:

• January 6: Non-notable events, fuck censorship, Quincy Douby/Marcus Williams
• January 13: Southern Weekend, Brad Pitt on Weibo, Tracy McGrady suspended
• January 20: Airpocalypse veils fire, cats and crocodiles, fuck SARFT (Skyfall)
• January 27: Tracy McGrady and bad refs, man bites ostrich, GitHub blocked
• February 3: The Beijinger covers, WCBA finals, NY Times et al. hacked by China
• February 10: Toddler moons Li Keqiang, Super Bowl diary, Ping Fu caught in lies
• February 17: Chinese New Year fireworks, Lu Chen joke, toddler poops on plane
• February 24: Tracy McGrady recap, official misses flight, “no dog” etc. sign
• March 3: Teen poops in subway, Rodman to DPRK, China Twitter, tbj’s lit contest
• March 10: Two Sessions graft/masturbation, racist restro lunch, Chongqing dogs
• March 17: Dead Shanghai pigs, tbj’s Restaurant Awards, Laowai Comics returns
• March 24: Frank Turner in Beijing, snow in Beijing, ridiculous hailstorm
• March 31: Three Shots With, Pedagog, CNN’s Why I’m Leaving China piece
• April 7: Lydon/Kraftwerk/censorship, H7N9, CRI host Yan Yinan’s suicide
• April 14: Django chained, Margaret Thatcher dead, GLB chili cook-off
• April 21: Boston Marathon/Lu Lingzi, John Sweeney’s DPRK, Kobe’s injury
• April 28: Chinese in America react to Lu Lingzi, Neil Robinson, Ya’an quake
• May 5: Beijing Intl. Film Festival, Dali music festival, Rustic/Green Day
• May 12: Jingwen protest in Beijing, Ai Weiwei haircut, Midi Festival photo essay
• May 19: Matt Sheehan’s airport rumble, AWW’s Guijie brawl, BJC Bar Awards
• May 26: Unsavory Elements review, Ai Weiwei music video, bad scooterist
• June 2: Baby flushed down toilet, Ai Weiwei song, Bar and Club Awards winners
• June 9: June 4 stories, ft. TAR Nation, Liao Yiwu book review; Mitch Moxley
• June 16: The Creamcast, gaokao Q’s and duck essay, Mitch Moxley response
• June 23: Ai Weiwei album review, Galaxy SOHO/LGBT, Beckham stampede
• June 30: Craft Beer Festival, Edward Snowden in HK, Chen GC in Taiwan
• July 7: Asiana 214, zero-point gaokao essay, Google Canada hates China
• July 14: Beijing State of Mind, KTVU/”Sum Ting Wong,” Tsinghua’s cat
• July 21: Miss World China, world’s largest building tour, Beijing stabbings
• July 28: Beijing airport bomber, crowded Xierqi station, explosions and fire
• August 4: “Asian Girlz,” WSJ Chinese harmonized, Beige Wind, villanelle
• August 11: Chug-Off for Charity, Channel 4′s bad DPRK journalism, WWE
• August 18: Andray Abrahamian on Barclays and DPRK, interview with porn star, Tiananmen Tank Man in Cirque du Soleil
• August 25: Bo Xilai trial begins, Police officer slams toddler, Gu Kailai testimony
• September 1: Chug-Off for Charity & Bo Xilai trial end, Li Tianyi & Charles Xue
• September 8: BIFF goes on as planned, Beijing rugby’s ugly loss, bludgeoned dog
• September 15: Liz Tung interviews BIFF’s Dong Bingfeng, Literary Death Match, provincial courts dislike anti-rumor campaign (Alia’s first piece)
• September 22: Beijing Improv proposal, cop chases thief, Charles Xue’s apology
• September 29: Li Tianyi sentence, iPee, rethinking capital punishment
• October 6: Tino Sehgal review, Shanghai free-trade zone, giant hornets
• October 13: Beijing Duck at Summer Palace, Uyghur soccer, exhibitionist
• October 20: Alison Gold’s “Chinese Food,” Michael Bay attacked, Boris Johnson
• October 27: Beijing Marathon, Wudaokou places to visit, Harbin’s smog
• November 3: Tiananmen attack, ABC apologizes, Halloween subway party
• November 10: Electric Castle party, Taiyuan explosion, Guangzhou Evergrande wins
• November 24: Mike Forsyth/Bloomberg, Gary Locke resigns, Guangzhou Sex Festival
• December 8: RFH on Nikki Aaron, political playing cards reviewed, Wu’er Kaixi
• December 15: Tom Carter AMA, Carla Bruni nude pics, circumcision poem
• December 29: Xi Jinping’s lunch, Bobby Brown CBA, GZ Evergrande at FIFA

2014:

• January 12: Chen Guangbiao’s biz card, Guardian blocked, Dukezong (Shangri-la) fire
• January 26: Poetry Night, ICIJ on offshore wealth, Li Na wins Aussie Open
• February 2: David Letterman-Louis CK, Warner Brown, Hannah Lincoln, Austin Dean, Baidu Translate, Last Train Home, Harbin, CNY wishes
• February 16: Marbury ejected, “chengguan” attack in Beijing, Wen Yiduo review
• March 2: Beijing Creatives at Dada interrupted, Kunming terrorist attack, Sanlitun foreigners stabbed
• March 16: MH370, That’s Shanghai erotic fiction, literary festivals preview
• March 30: Beijing protest of MH370, Beijing tribute video, Blogging China podcast