Author Archives: Eric Mu

Pretty interpreter makes the news

When do interpreters become top headlines instead of the bigwigs they serve? One answer: when the interpreter is a pretty lady who can flawlessly translate a line of Chinese ancient poetry quoted by Primer Wen Jiabao.

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Soy sauce man III: Manager Zhang and the shopping guides

A story about Li, a Chinese university graduate who became a soy sauce businessman

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Premier Wen’s unwitting endorsement of reading glasses

Presbyopia reading glasses exploit Wen for advertisement

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Xingtai: the city and the soy sauce man’s job

A story about Li, a Chinese university graduate who turned a soy sauce businessman

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The true story of a soy sauce man

A story about Li, a Chinese university graduate who turned a soy sauce businessman

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A tribute to Bo Xilai

Crime buster Bo Xilai is praised in an online music video as “a peacetime hero”.

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Avatar’s Hallelujah Mountain in real life

The tourism bureau of Zhangjiajie in Hunan announced earlier today that the name of the reputed “South Pillar of the Heaven” aka “Pillar between Heaven and Earth” would be changed to “Hallelujah Mountain”

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Old Beijing Man talks about Mao and Cultural Revolution

Today’s China maybe fully embraces capitalism and is on the fast track to prosperity, but what may be regarded by many as a failed ideology still manages to find ways to manifest itself.

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Danwei Canteen: Egg Dumplings

In the second episode of Danwei Canteen, Anhui native Li Zhongqin cooks her mother’s egg dumpling recipe, set to music from Anhui.

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Bring the middle-aged back to work

Henan Business Daily: Lu Zhangong, the party secretary of Henan Province, decided that the people in the 40s and 50s need more help to find jobs.

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