Category Archives: 2008 Beijing Olympic Games

New Olympic icons

The Beijing Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games (BOCOG) has released its newly designed set of icons to represent each sport. From the BOCOG press release: Named “the beauty of seal characters” and with strokes of seal characters as their … Continue reading →

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Beijing’s toilet travails and a foreskin poem

The framed advertisement to the left has appeared above urinals in public toilets around Beijing. It promotes the services of the Dongda Hospital for Anus and Intestinal Diseases and contains a poem. The poem is about misshapen foreskins.

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Let the Spiel Begin
by Geremie R. Barmé

Zhang Yimou, the Olympics opening ceremony, and a historically positive song and dance epics.

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Beijing taxi strike, and why the city’s cabbies deserve more respect

Beijing taxi under spring snow – by Snow Kisses Sky March 2006 Sort of a strike The first indication of anything happening was a rumour earlier this week that the government was going to give Beijing cabbies a day off … Continue reading →

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