From JapanProb: For those that missed their report on fake brand goods that aired before the Beijing Olympics, Fuji TV has aired a new report on fake Olympic t-shirts being sold on the streets the day after the Olympics ended:...
Read MoreEditor, reporter Sam Eifling writes in the Columbia Journalism Review: The swell of sour press about the Olympics may have begun with a couple of crooked teeth. It was clear to anyone who’d ever watched a person sing while...
Read MoreJoel Martinsen writes in the Danwei blog: The Global Language Monitor, a Texas-based organization whose biggest claim to fame is its dubious pursuit of the millionth word in the English language (they’re up to 996,341...
Read MoreBeijing-based legal scholar Xu Zhiyong (许志永) writes on his blog, translated by CDT: Seven-year-old Yang Peiyi sang a lovely song for the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympic Games. However, audiences all over the world...
Read MoreLin Miaoke, a cute Chinese girl, is by now a poster girl all over the world. There’s yet more to come about her. Here is a brief round up, translated by CDT from news stories and blogs: Lin Miaoke became famous overnight...
Read MoreJournalist and entrepreneur Stephen Vines writes in the South China Morning Post: In order to ensure what only a one-party state can regard as perfection during this lavishly staged event there was no hesitation in deploying...
Read MoreMore on the scandal over the lip-syncing performance in the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympic Games. Yang Binbin (杨彬彬), senior reporter of China’s leading finance and business magazine Caijing write the following...
Read MoreGeremie R. Barmé is a professor of Chinese history at The Australian National University. He writes in the ChinaBeat blog: Far in advance of this the ceremony designers created a digital mock up of the fireworks so that TV...
Read MoreLin Miaoke (林妙可)，the adorable nine-year-old girl who sang “Ode to the Motherland” 《歌唱祖国》when the Chinese national flag entered the Bird’s Nest Stadium during the Olympics Opening Ceremony, is now the hottest...
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