Restaurants Serve Cultural Revolution Nostalgia
Adam Century at The Atlantic looks at Chongqing’s red restaurant phenomenon in which...
Liu Xiang
Stumbling at the First Hurdle
In a flashback to the London Olympics, one netizen compared track star Liu Xiang’s Olympic defeat...
Fans “Cheated” by Liu’s Scripted Olympic Tragedy
Liu Xiang’s one-legged finish after falling at the first hurdle in London seemed to offer a dramatic counterpoint to China’s “gold or nothing” approach to the games. CCTV presenter Yang Jian choked up as...
Profiting from Liu Xiang’s Defeat
A real estate company in Chengdu, Sichuan Province tried to profit from Liu Xiang’s failure at the London Olympics: SmartEyeView: This is an ad for a Chengdu real estate company. That was fast. Do you think Liu Xiang should sue?...
Directives from the Ministry of Truth: Liu Xiang
The following examples of censorship instructions, issued to the media and/or Internet companies...
The Olympics: Just Games?
For the Chinese, the Olympics have always been something more than just games: the longstanding medal-oriented ideology has linked sports achievements to national glory. As the 2012 London Olympics loom, although the national...
Word of the Week: Soy Sauce Committee Members
Editor’s Note: The Word of the Week comes from China Digital Space’s Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon, a...
Liu Isn’t Rushing in Return to Track
Liu Xiang, China’s great hurdling hope at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, was at the track recently, but he wasn’t competing. From The Wall Street Journal: This was Mr. Liu’s second public appearance since returning...
Wei Hanfeng on Liu Xiang: “50 Medals Can’t Make up for This”
On the Newsweek blog, Jonathan Ansfield interviews the editor of the Chinese edition of Sports Illustrated about superstar hurdler Liu Xiang’s withdrawal from the Olympics and the skepticism among some that he dropped out...
Liu Xiang Sent to Olympic Death by China’s £1 Billion Image-Building Exercise
In Chinese, Xiang (翔) means “flying.” It is also Liu Xiang’s given name. Since China’s “Flying Man” limped off the National Stadium track on Monday, the state’s propaganda machine has...
Reactions to Liu Xiang and the Nature of Chinese National Pride
Shanghai-based Xiaodi Zhang, product management executive at eBay and co-founder of HopStix, a new China travel review site for sharing about food and travel, writes on cnreviews.com: Why has Liu Xiang meant so much to the...
Propaganda Officials Set Tone for Liu Xiang Coverage
Jim Yardley, of the New York Times, reports that Chinese propaganda officials have ordered only sympathetic coverage of Liu Xiang: After Liu hobbled off the track, China’s Internet was filled with comments that ranged from...
China’s Liu Fails To Start Hurdles (Updated With Photos)
Nick Mulvenney reports in the Reuters: Liu Xiang’s dream of defending his Olympic title on home soil ended on Monday when he failed to start his first-round heat in the 110 meters hurdles. China’s world champion, the...
Sports Round-up 07.17: Yao Back, Liu Still Broken
Mixed news for China’s stable of Olympics heroes. As the Washington Post reports, basketball superstar Yao Ming made his first appearance in competition since being seriously injured in an NBA game in February, and...
Liu Xiang’s Olympic Hurdles
The Times’ John Goodbody takes a look at China’s great athletic medal hope, Liu Xiang: It has always been destined to be a victory parade, the moment when the Chinese celebrate their staging of the Olympics with the...
Update: Liu Xiang Misses Race With Tight Hamstring
From Sports Illustrated: Chinese track and field athlete Liu Xiang was scheduled to compete in this Saturday’s Reebok Grand Prix event in New York. Liu had to drop out of the event due to a tight hamstring but appeared...
Video: Liu Xiang atop Empire State Building
From the New York Times: Liu Xiang, Chinese Olympic track and field star, appears soft-spoken and playful, posing for pictures and speaking through a translator atop the Empire State Building in New York City. Liu Xiang is...
Who Is Liu?
From Times Online: “Girls like him, old ladies like him, even men,” says Feng Shuyong, head coach of China’s national athletics team. But who is Liu Xiang? He is the 110 metres hurdles Olympic champion, just one of...
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