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Category Archives: Humor
Chinese have no sense of humor?
“I have concluded that we Chinese do not have much of a sense of humor.” That’s what Wang Xiaofeng said in a recent blog post, translated into an abridged English version by Raymond Zhou: Chinese sense of humor? You’ve got … Continue reading
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Tagged Raymond Zhou, Wang Xiaofeng
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Slow, polluting seniors removed from Beijing city streets
Zhang Rui writes about a Beijing plan to ban seniors from the city’s streets, with the goal of reducing gridlock among pedestrians.
Posted in Beijing, Humor, Internet, IP and Law, Transport, Trends and Buzz
Tagged @classic, regulations, seniors, traffic, Zhang Rui
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2006: The year in spoofs
Southern Metropolis Weekly (南都周刊) runs a year-end issue filled with nothing but spoofs of the major stories of 2006.
Posted in Humor, Internet, Magazines, Media and Advertising
Tagged Chang Ping, egao, Southern Metropolis Weekly
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ill communication: China Mobile seeks copy editor **Urgent **
The following paragraph is taken from the about section of China Mobile’s English web site: Construction of the Three Civilization: New progresses were achieved in the development of corporate culture and fruitful results were seen on the spiritual civilization front, … Continue reading
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Designing a cover for a Chinese Vanity Fair
Frank Miao Wei writes on his blog about the Chinese editions of various internationally-famous publications, and proposes putting Han Han nude on the cover with Wang Shuo and a clothed Xu Jinglei.
Posted in Humor, Internet, Magazines, Media and Advertising
Tagged Frank Miao Wei, Han Han, magazines, nudity, Wang Shuo, Xu Jinglei
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Why Feng Xiaogang shot such a lame Banquet
Feng Xiaogang’s ‘The Banquet’ gets the spoof treatment, SARFT criticizes Lou Ye’s aesthetic sensibility after banning him for five years, The Opposite End of China talks about progress in Xinjiang, and Wang Xiarou writes about bathhouses.
Posted in Danwei Noon Report, Film, Humor, Internet, Media and Advertising, Media regulation
Tagged bathing, Feng Xiaogang, Lou Ye, SARFT, Xinjiang
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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.
Posted in 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, Advertising and Marketing, Humor, Media and Advertising, Trends and Buzz
Tagged circumcision, Dongda, hospitals, poetry, translation
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American Stand-up Comedy in Beijing and Shanghai
Chopschticks, the stand-up comedy outfit, has a show this weekend, featuring Bernadette Pauley of Comedy Central and Al Ducharme: Shanghai: Friday, July 14th at 8:00pm Beijing: Saturday, July 15th at 7:30pm For details on the venues and how to book, … Continue reading
Posted in Events, Humor, Shanghai, Trends and Buzz
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A Chinese Da Vinci Code
Translation of a Da Vinci Code spoof concerning Tang Bohu (唐伯虎密码) by (敢笑不下流).
Posted in Film, Humor, Trends and Buzz
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