Category Archives: Trends and Buzz

Free gift with purchase. On World AIDS Day this year, like last year, Beijing’s media worked to promote education and safety. The copy of BQ I bought this afternoon came with a Durex Love brand condom and a “Stop AIDS, … Continue reading →

A sample of fine calligraphy. Further evidence that today’s youth are going to hell in a handbasket: the Chongqing Evening News reports that three college students who had been hired by Wanzhou Port couldn’t write clearly enough to fill out … Continue reading →

Bluegrass and the PLA From up and coming Beijing impresario Jon Campbell: The Return of the Travelling Daughter: Abigail Washburn Brings her Banjo Back to Beijing Those of you around last November might recall the brief Chinese-spiced bluegrass and old-time … Continue reading →

Big book of Beijing Danwei recently commented on a story in the San Francisco Chronicle in which the reporter ignorantly said that the Great Hall of the People was a difficult place to gain admission to. People who want to … Continue reading →

Open daily The Governator is in Beijing to lobby for Californian business interests, and he has brought along retinue of executives who hope to ride his coat tails to success in China, which let’s not forget, has a population of … Continue reading →

The sinister Olympic mascots From The Guardian’s News Blog: What are they? Have the Pokemon been spawning the love children of Astroboy? Have five boddhisatvas turned up in Beijing as strange little manga aliens? No, they’re Bei Bei, Jing Jing, … Continue reading →

Drudge is chicken This is Wikipedia’s entry on the Drudge Report: The Drudge Report is a popular U.S.-based news website run by Matt Drudge. The site consists primarily of links to stories from the mainstream media about politics, entertainment, and … Continue reading →