Author Archives: Running Dog

White-collar wife-swapping in Guangdong

Posted on 2005-06-15 by Running Dog

Sohu, via Eastnet, today publishes a breathless account of the increasingly popular phenomenon of wife-swapping in Guangdong. An “insider” tells a suspiciously-eager reporter that his particular swinger group involves lawyers, businessmen and administrators, that they are – on the whole … Continue reading →

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Ultra-leftists and righteous indignation

Posted on 2005-06-14 by Running Dog

The Beijing Daily Messenger has got hot under the collar about a real estate ad featuring a Chairman Mao lookalike. A legal rentaquote is recruited to the cause, and he notes that it is illegal to use the images of … Continue reading →

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State-owned media story of the week

Posted on 2005-06-09 by Running Dog

(The scene: Xin Jing Bao office, Beijing.) EDITOR: Hey, Xiao Huang. We need something to fill page 24. No one ever reads that far anyway, what with our Special Herbal Suppository Supplement and our new section G covering Taiwanese pop … Continue reading →

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Nostalgia

Posted on 2005-06-03 by Running Dog

Thanks to some unforeseen error, the contents of the defunct Shanghai Eye are still available. The satire includes a look at CCTV 14 and a number of Shanghai bar reviews. No one is quite sure how long it will remain…

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Herbal viagra

Posted on 2005-06-02 by Running Dog

My colleague draws my attention to this unnecessarily phallic ginseng root on a billboard in downtown Shanghai.

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Selective reporting

Posted on 2005-06-01 by Running Dog

As Danwei reported earlier, the Chinese state press, including Southern Metropolis Daily, got very excited by the findings of the World Association of Newspapers (WAN), which said that 28 of the world’s 100 best selling newspapers were Chinese. However, for … Continue reading →

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Bring us back our lurid headlines

Posted on 2005-05-31 by Running Dog

Many of China’s newspapers have been disappointingly coy in recent months, and thus, it is with great pleasure that we present the front page of today’s Southern Metropolis Daily, the formerly controversial Guangzhou-based rag. According to the cover story, a … Continue reading →

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Carnival of hate

Posted on 2005-04-16 by Running Dog

Possibly as many as 30,000 people were marching through the streets of Shanghai today. Some of them smashed up a teppanyaki restaurant, some threw stones at passing Toyotas, and some called for the mass murder of Japanese people. Mass gatherings … Continue reading →

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State-owned media story of the day

Posted on 2005-02-18 by Running Dog

And now for something completely different, a man from Guilin who can blow up balloons through his ears, courtesy of Beijing’s Xin Jing Bao.

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Ba’ath slippers

Posted on 2005-02-18 by Running Dog

We spotted this curious item in a Shanghai supermarket this week: For more details about this important discovery, please visit, ahem, Running Dog. You might also want to take a look at this previous violation of Saddam’s image.

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