food safety

Rats! Taobao Censors Toys, Vendors Cry Fowl

Toys riffing on China’s hottest online idiom, “calling a rat a duck,” were yanked from online shelves this past week, a sign of the idiom’s continued political sensitivity.  The tongue-in-cheek saying “calling a rat a duck”...

Word of the Week: Ditch Oil

The Word of the Week comes from the Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon, a glossary of terms created by...

Word of the Week: Poison Rice

毒大米 (dú dàmǐ): poison rice Rice that has been treated with toxic chemicals to increase its...

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