From People’s Daily: Fans of online pranks in China have taken a break from parodying big-budget Chinese movies to focus on the Olympic emblem, triggering anger and criticism from game organizers. Internet users have transformed the emblem for the 2008 Beijing Olympic into signs for male and female public restrooms. The original emblem, dubbed “Dancing […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times: In China, what promises to be a year rich in rumor has begun with a whopper: Vice President Zeng Qinghong will take over the presidency, one of three top posts currently held by Hu Jintao, the country’s No...
Read MoreFrom AP via LA Times: Pregnant women from mainland China who are near their due date will be turned away at Hong Kong borders if they cannot prove they have appointments in the city’s hospitals, officials said Tuesday. The number of births by mainland Chinese women in Hong Kong nearly doubled in 2005 — from […]
Read MoreFrom Shenzhen Fieldnotes: Dinner with beijing friends led, as it inevitably does, to conversation about why beijing and beijing people are the best. This time, text message culture (Áü≠‰ø°ÊñáÂåñ) was our point of departure. According to wan ning and hu lin, all of a sudden people are text messaging their new year’s greetings to each […]
Read MoreFrom The Economist: The Dutch called it the Spanish disease; Russians the Polish disease; Turks, the Christian disease and Tahitians, the British disease. But syphilis, a sexually transmitted disease (STD), seems more of a Chinese disease these days. In China the chance of catching it is now more than 28 times greater than it was […]
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