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A Few Upbeat Items, All Involving China

Samuel Wade — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 05:03:33 +0000

James Fallows offers some respite from the gutter oil, murdered journalists and migrant workers, beaten and abducted tourists, sex dungeons, missing women, corner-cutting builders, downtrodden villagers, besieged activists, lethal floods, tobacco-sponsored primary schools and poisoned children: a man in a squirrel suit planning to fly through a Hunan cave, a tricycle-mounted water calligraphy printer, an arguably amusing Global Times editorial and his own forthcoming appearance on Charlie Rose. As a preview, here is the tricycle calligraphy video, by Jonah Kessel and Danwei:

But don’t miss the squirrel man, either.

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Parody: Hitler Responds to Chinese Microblogging Scandal

Sophie Beach — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 02:42:09 +0000

Recently, Xie Zhiqiang, the director of a Chinese municipal health bureau, was found using a micro-blogging site to chat with his mistress (Jiang). The two were having intimate conversations on the site without knowing that it was public.

Someone posted their conversation screenshots on a Chinese online discussion forum, and the scandal was thus widely spread.

This video parody was originally created by a Chinese netizen and was later translated and edited by CDT staff. It is taken from the often-parodied film Downfall about the end of Hitler’s life.

*Note: The term “fart people” used in the video is an Internet slang term that references a local official accused of harassing a young girl who later yelled at her parents telling them, “You people are worth less than a fart to me.” Read more on the Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon.

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Chinese Politician Caught in Social Media Scandal (with Videos)

Xiao Qiang — Sun, 26 Jun 2011 15:41:09 +0000

From the Washington Post Blog, by Hayley Tsukayama:

Chinese politician Xie Zhiqiang has found himself in hot water after using Sina’s Weibo, a microblogging site similar to Twitter, to set up a liaison with a woman believed to be his mistress.
Apparently, Xie — the married head of the Liyang City Sanitation Bureau — did not realize that the messages sent on Weibo were public, but thought it was a private messaging service, the Wall Street Journal reported.
When asked about the messages, Xie was reportedly taken aback, according to the Journal, citing a Chinese news source.
“How did you see them? They’re not visible, right?” Xie said to a reporter from China’s Modern Express, “You saw all the Weibos we sent to each other? It can’t be.”

The following translations are from penn-olson.com:

Mistress: Dear Pangpang (a nickname), I will be at Muhu tomorrow, give me a call.
Xie: How will you give me the hotel room card, I will not take it from reception by myself.
Xie: Get me the hotel room card. Take a break in the hotel and I will be right over, ok?
Xie: Honey, we should not make phone calls or SMS’s. This is Meet on Weibo, I miss you so much, let’s decide on Weibo where to go, ok? [This is perhaps our favorite message!]
Xie: Did you buy anything in Shanghai? I will take care of the reimbursing.
Xie: No wonder Yang leaves his beautiful wife at home, if I were him, I couldn’t get enough of her.

Chinese netizens made the following satirical song and video for this event, entitled “The Bureau Chief’s Anger.”

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Video: Shanghai in Motion

Sophie Beach — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 14:40:06 +0000

A series of videos commissioned by a French production company gives a glimpse of life in Shanghai during the Shanghai Expo. Two of the six episodes are below:

Shanghai in Motion – Episode 1 from Shanghai in motion on Vimeo.

Shanghai in Motion – Portraits Croisés from patrick wack on Vimeo.

(h/t Shanghaiist)

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Video: The Great Firewall Of China

Xiao Qiang — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 16:38:00 +0000

The following video was produced by Hungry Beast, and the Chinese captions are provided by a new volunteer-based Chinese translation service: Translator:

There are many more videos on the infamous Great Firewall. Please click here to watch a report produced by ABC Australia in 2008, or watch the following Hong Kong TV program:

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Video Satire: Hu Ge’s (胡戈) Animal World: The Apartment Dweller, Starring Han Han (韩寒)

Sophie Beach — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 05:19:28 +0000

Satirist Hu Ge，producer of hugely popular videos mocking CCTV and filmmaker Chen Kaige, has struck again with another viral hit. This one, a critique of Internet censorship, stars several online celebrities and mocks a popular nature program, Animal World (动物世界) by introducing a new species, “the Apartment Dweller,” whose habitat is a high-rise apartment and whose primary activity is surfing the web. The video (in Chinese) follows the Apartment Dweller as they encounter numerous dangers and are “protected” by humans who prevent them from downloading movies, watching “yellow” (porn) sites, and other risky behavior. Those who suffer from the contagious disease of “thinking,” have their content “reviewed” in multiple layers and are forced to wait. The actor portraying this particular “thinking” breed is none other than best-selling author, race car driver and China’s hottest blogger Han Han.

In the end, this species learns to adapt to its environment by giving up its dangerous pursuits and becoming gamers and online merchandisers. The final song is titled, “We Stay.”

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Music Video: “The Whole World is Laughing at China Being Stupid” (全世界都在笑中国傻)

Sophie Beach — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 04:34:21 +0000

Increasingly, music videos in China are not only a form of entertainment but carry a political message – sometimes subtle, sometimes not – as well. See this CDT translation for an example. ChinaHush has also translated the lyrics of another pop song:

Recently this music video named “The whole world is laughing at China being stupid” (全世界都在笑中国傻) has been circulating on the Chinese internet. Initially this music video was “officially approved” by the Chinese government, however netizens strongly reacted to the bitter sarcasm of the lyrics which associated with China’s current situation. Soon after, Sina – the first website posted this video quickly removed the video content from its page. Subsequently, most of the major Chinese video sharing sites also have removed it.

The whole world is laughing at China being stupid
Selling rare earth minerals to foreigner at the same price as radishes
The whole world is laughing at China being stupid
The goods we deliver make the whole world praising us being so obedient
The whole world is laughing at China being stupid
The money we earn but store in someone else’s home
The whole world is laughing at China being stupid
The words we speak make the whole world praising us being so obedient

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Video: “网瘾战争 War of Internet Addiction” (Updated)

Xiao Qiang — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 23:28:28 +0000

DigiCha has posted links to YouTube videos, now with English subtitles, mocking government efforts to crackdown on gaming (Videos embedded below). DigiCha points out that episode 6 (of 7) has the most obvious discussion of Internet controls. This video has already had more than million visits inside of China. From their introduction:

It is an hour long video, “shot” almost entirely with in-game video from World of Warcraft, satirizing the government’s attempt to “harmonize” China’s Internet with forced installations of “Green Dam Youth Escort” and the travails of Chinese World of Warcraft players over the last several months.
…The film tracks the fight between The9 ($NCTY) and Netease ($NTES) over the renewal rights to Activision Blizzard’s ($ATVI) World of Warcraft, the requirement that skulls be removed from World of Warcraft (hence the Skull Party), the bureaucratic battles between GAPP and the Ministry of Culture over the re-approval of WoW in China, the money-obsessed Uncle Yang and his Internet addiction camps and electro-shock therapy (see this forthcoming Feb 2010 Wired article on China’s Internet addiction camps), and the attempts to impose “Green Dam Youth Escort” software on Chinese web users. The movie concludes with an impassioned speech calling for Chinese World of Warcraft players to end their silence and fight the attempts to keep them away from World of Warcraft, followed by an agreement between the warring bureaucracies-GAPP and MOC–to put aside their dispute and go after Netease for more money.

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Music Video: Let Feng Zhenghu Return Home

Xiao Qiang — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 21:08:19 +0000

Music video: Let Feng Zhenghu Return Home, by Flying White Cloud (白云飞).

The music in the above video is from Taiwanese singer Feng Feifei (凤飞飞)’s famous song: The Road Home (归乡路) (1982), lyrics translated by CDT:

The Road Home

I try to set my sights beyond the far horizon
The road seems to extend forever
And is indistinct from the vastness of the earth
I can’t find the words to ask the heavens
True, there are thousands of waves deep in the sea of clouds
But nothing can stop my determination to return home

The night has run its course and the sky is alreadly dim
After experiencing all the vicissitudes of life
How eager I am
To once again see the mountains and rivers of my homeland
And the brilliance of the Sun and the Moon there

臺灣電影《血濺歸鄉路》主題曲，原錄於1982年出版的【你來了】專輯。

鳳飛飛 -《歸鄉路》
詞/晨曦曲/劉家昌

望斷天涯路茫茫　無語問穹蒼
雲海深處雖有千層浪　難阻我歸鄉

夜已盡　天已亮　世事歷滄桑
迢迢山河　日月重光　切切在寄望

And the words in the last shot are from Chinese blogger Zhai Minglei’s article “To not let Feng Zhenghu return home is China’s national shame, ” translated by CDT:

“A real man does not say the word ‘love’ lightly. Once he says it, he needs to have the courage to die for this love, whether the object of the love is your country, or your woman.”

“一个男人，千万别轻易说爱。一旦说了，就要有为爱而死的勇气，无论爱的是你的祖国，还是女人。”

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Video: Chinese Dissidents Committed to Mental Hospitals

Sophie Beach — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 18:01:02 +0000

The PBS Newshour reports on political dissidents and petitioners in China who are sentenced to psychiatric hospitals:

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