Category Archives: Trends and Buzz

Lessons from the Pope, Toiletgate and Chinabounder

Chinabounder The Internet mobs hunting for the philandering Chinabounder blogger seem to have cooled their tempers. Some names of Shanghai-resident English teachers were bandied about the Internet as suspects, although no one seems to have confirmed whether those names did … Continue reading →

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You can’t be Lei Feng all the time

Park officials in Jiaozuo, Hebei, prevent a cosmetology class from offering free haircuts, saying that Lei Feng is only a model when part of government-organized volunteer activities.

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Do you want to be Chinese?

Netease poll asking respondents to choose whether they’d be Chinese in their next life.

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This week in figures

1000-yuan glasses from Henan, 300-yuan mandatory bribe payments at a Chongqing hospital, and 100% condom compliance.

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Actress accuses CCTV director on blog

Danwei Noon Report is a daily roundup of new and old media coverage about China from Chinese and English sources. Xiao Qiong’s not happy Yet another blog scandal Shanghai blogger Bingfeng reports on yet another blog scandal in which an … Continue reading →

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Meng Guangmei and Toiletgate: The latest Chinese Internet swarm

Meng Guangmei dissing on China’s toilets The latest incident to outrage China’s Internet users is being dubbed ‘Toiletgate’ (厕所门) by some Chinese fourm posters. A Taiwanese model named Meng Guangmei (孟广美) who came to the Mainland ten years ago and … Continue reading →

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Sex and Shanghai a hoax?

Is Sex and Shanghai performance art by an international syndicate?

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The Carnal History of the Eight Big Hutongs – Danwei TV

The last episode of Danwei TV’s Hard Hat Show was an interview with the writer Mike Meyer, who is completing a book about his experiences living in the hutong area west of Qianmen. He introduced us to a Chinese writer … Continue reading →

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Expensive, tasty space food

Chinese science fiction critic Wu Yan writes on his blog about his impressions of China’s space food.

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Chinese journalism played by the Super Girls

Latest scandals to hit the Super Girls competition (August 2006), and a translation of a piece by Yang Yu decrying journalists’ lack of objectivity when they participated in the judging.

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