In response to the furor over the Olympics lip-synching incident, China is set to ban the practice of pantomiming to songs. From Telegraph: Now, the Ministry of Culture plans to name and shame performers caught lip-synching....
From the Canberra Times: Earlier yesterday, China’s deputy sports minister blamed an ”administrative error” for the confusion surrounding the age of He Kexin. Cui Dalin told a press conference that officials...
Editor, 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...
Joel 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...
Following their previous report on a hacker who found more evidence of gymnast He Kexin’s real age, the Times is now reporting: An IOC official told The Times that because of “discrepancies” that have come to...
American blogger Stryde writes in his blog: There’s been some widely publicized controversy regarding the competition age of the Chinese women’s gymnastics team recently. Rather than be too CNN, I decided to take a...
Beijing-based writer Xu Xing (徐星) wrote the following post on his Xintianyou blog, translated by CDT: I had coffee with two foreign colleagues. We naturally talked about the Olympics. They asked me, with smiles on their faces,...
Beijing-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...
Juliet Macur reports in the New York Times: He, who is listed as 16 but whose age has been at issue at these Olympics, won the gold. Liukin, the all-around Olympic champion, won silver, her fourth medal of these Games. China’s...
Christie Blatchford reports in the Globe and Mail: What is of real interest in the reporting of this story is, unusually, the reporting. Credit is due bloggers here in China, and ex-pat professor Xiao Qiang (now at the School of...
While Reuters just reported that “China not rattled by age questions,” here is an archived online news report mentioning the age of He Kexin (何可欣), one of China’s famous six. The news was posted on November 3,...
From The Wall Street Journal: In the Olympic Opening Ceremonies, a procession of children bore a large Chinese flag into the Bird’s Nest stadium, each child wearing a costume representing one of China’s ethnic...
Lin 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...
Translated by CDT from the Beijing Times, via qq.com: In yesterday’s Opening Ceremony, a step-by-step series of fireworks-sequenced footprints that “walked” from Yongdingmen along the central axis to the...
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