Category Archives: Trends and Buzz

American Stand-up Comedy in Beijing and Shanghai

Posted on 2006-07-14 by Jeremy Goldkorn

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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Sakura Momoko and dia

Posted on 2006-07-12 by Joel Martinsen

How Chibi Maruko-chan (樱桃小丸子) started the ‘dia’ (嗲) craze among mainland Chinese girls.

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Monday morning reading

Posted on 2006-07-10 by Jeremy Goldkorn

ESWN: Freedom of Identity, Speech and Assembly on the Internet A Chinese player of the network game The Fantasy of the Journey West (梦幻西游) has been put in virtual prison by Netease, the company that runs the game. ESWN reports … Continue reading →

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Visions of the Qinghai-Tibet railway

Posted on 2006-07-10 by Joel Martinsen

Han Song (韩松) on the new ‘ladder to the sky’ – an excerpt of a story called ‘The Special Train Ticket’ (特别火车票) aka ‘The Guilty Train Ticket’ (罪恶火车票), as well as his comments on the opening ceremony for the Qinghai-Tibet railroad.

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Naked football pensioners run amok;
Huang Jianxiang metal mashup

Posted on 2006-07-06 by Jeremy Goldkorn

An elderly Chinese man went on a rampage in Nanjing after Brazil’s defeat to France in the World Cup quarter-finals last weekend.

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$12 billion of yak skins – Sino-Indian trade route reopens

Posted on 2006-07-06 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Coming during the same week that China’s railroad to Tibet took its first passengers to Lhasa, this is an interesting bit of news from Xinhua: China, India reopen historic trade route. There’s more about the cross border trade on India … Continue reading →

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Great Wall and China’s Muslims

Posted on 2006-06-30 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Quran with Chinese translation – image from China Heritage Quarterly

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Hao Hao Report

Posted on 2006-06-29 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Digg.com is a social bookmarking type of website that allows users to link to, comment and rate interesting stories on the Internet and websites. Dalian-based blogger Humanaught has started a similar service focusing on China information in English: Hao Hao … Continue reading →

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2007: Year of the crane

Posted on 2006-06-29 by Joel Martinsen

Online proposal to replace the rat (鼠), rooster (鸡), snake (蛇), and pig (猪) in the Chinese zodiac with the lion (狮), phoenix (凤), crane (鹤), and fish (鱼).

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Clueless academic takes on popular fantasy novels

Posted on 2006-06-29 by Joel Martinsen

Culture Wars: author Xiao Ding (萧鼎) takes on stuffed shirt Tao Dongfeng (陶东风) over fantasy literature.

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