Author Archives: Jeremy Goldkorn

Kedong County: a documentary by Chinageeks

Kedong County, a documentary about a village in Heilongjiang Province by Chinageeks.

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Blue skies over Beijing

Blue skies return to the capital after a week of smog and soupy air.

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The air in Beijing: 2010 and 2006

AP reports:

Pollution in Beijing was so bad Friday the U.S. Embassy, which has been independently monitoring air quality, ran out of conventional adjectives to describe it, at one point saying it was “crazy bad.”

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Sex shops and the Red Light Revolution

Sexy Beijing interviews the cast and crew of the film Red Light Revolution.

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Instant hotel

A time lapse video showing the lightning-fast construction of a hotel in Changsha, Hunan Province.

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Rui Chenggang represents “entire Asia”

At the G20 summit in Seoul, U.S. President Obama asked for questions from the Korean media. CCTV 9 anchor Rui Chenggang (previously in the news) stood up and said “I’m actually Chinese but I think I get to represent the entire Asia”. Hilarity on Weibo ensures.

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US-Sino currency rap battle from Next Media Animation

Quirky brilliance from Next Media Animation: The US-Sino Currency Rap Battle, featuring Obama and Chinese president Hu Jintao, who says: “China’s in the house. We own your ass biaatch!”

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Massive over-use of antibiotics in the media

Chinese media focus on a serious health hazard that should be preventable: the wild over-use of antibiotics.

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Ai Weiwei’s river crab banquet

Artist and activist Ai Weiwei is put under house arrest in Beijing, but but his river crab party in Shanghai goes on without him.

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Shosholoza on the Shanghai Metro

Kliptown Youth Program gumboot dancers on the Shanghai subway sing Shosholoza, a traditional South African song sung by migrant workers on trains bound for Johannesburg where they would dig for gold for paltry wages.

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