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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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.

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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.

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Old fables retold: The Tortoise and the Hare

The story of The Tortoise and the Hare (龟兔赛跑) told from a Chinese bureaucratic perspective.

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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.

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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.

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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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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

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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).

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