Category Archives: Humor

Find harmony by owning your own grass-mud horse

Stuffed alpacas.

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Hoax dictionary entries about legendary obscene beasts

Some humorous entries in Baidupedia, and a meme of the Grass Mud Horse spawned from them.

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Hu Ge spoof about group housing

Video parodist Hu Ge takes on CCTV with a video about group housing.

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Kaiser Kuo on visiting journalists and forbidden cliches

This humorous piece was written by the always witty Kaiser Kuo and first published in a recent edition of The Beijinger and on Ogilvy China’s Digital Watch blog). It is published below with permission of the author. Forbidden Clichés: A … Continue reading

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Wild Ultraman photographed in Guangdong

Ultraman (奥特曼) discovered in Guangdong. Netizens discuss whether it’s a fake.

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The making of a pet reporter

Zeng Ying (曾颖) writes of how a journalist turns from an idealist to the most successful pet reporter in China.

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China’s kings of destruction

Terrorist Meng Jiangnu and environmental monster Lu Ban stack up against Zhuge Liang, who snarled Yangtze River shipping traffic, and the Foolish Old Man, who launched a premeditated attack on the landscape.

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Traffic safety advice for Europeans

Jean-Pierre, how do I drive through this? No doubt responding to constituent demand, the folks at the European Union Chamber of Commerce are hosting a “Road Safety in China” seminar. The program’s stated goal “is to provide information and guidance … Continue reading

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Liu Qi on civic responsibility

Liu Qi (刘齐), a Beijing humorist, writes about the reticence of Chinese people to get involved in other people’s business.

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And now, some madcap cartographic action

A map of the world overlaid with the Classic of Mountains and Seas (山海经, Shan Hai Jing), and another showing Korean world conquest.

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