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Tag Archives: humor
A village with only one restaurant
Below is a translation of a joke that is currently being circulated widely on Sina Weibo and other Chinese social networks: There is a village that only has one restaurant. Everyone in the village has to eat at that restaurant. Villager: Why can’t … Continue reading
Posted in Internet and Media
Tagged china, CPC, Danwei.com, humor, Village
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We survived a day in China
Notes about social criticism and black humor on the Chinese Internet, by Victor H. Mair, Professor of Chinese Language and Literature at the University of Pennsylvania. We survived! Here is a translation of the cartoon at left that has been … Continue reading
Posted in Internet and Media
Tagged Black Humor, Danwei.com, disasters, humor, Sarcasm
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The Lius I admire
Liu is an idol to many.
Green Dam Girl
The latest onslaught on a government policy that everyone from nationalist Chinese netizens to foreign journalists derides as absurd.
Posted in Net Nanny Follies
Tagged alpaca, Caonima, censorship, Green Dam, Green Dam Girl, humor, media regulation
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Humorists of the world, unite!
Sun Rui edits a new humor magazine.
Posted in Magazines
Tagged humor, Jia Pingwa, Lin Changzhi, Sun Rui
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The text message as satire
Satirical mobile phone text messages.
Posted in Guest Contributor, Mobile phone and wireless
Tagged humor, mobile phones, nationalism, SMS
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Lin Changzhi: Back with more Q goodness
Author and humorist Lin Changzhi, author of Q Reader (Q版文学), has a new book – Friends (6人行) – and a blog on Sina.
Posted in Trends and Buzz
Tagged Friends, humor, Lin Changzhi
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Stifled Laughter: How the Communist Party Killed Chinese Humor
The Chinese government has systematically stifled crosstalk by bowdlerizing its tradition, restricting its natural growth and evolution, and reducing the form to a sycophantic, unsatisfying — and unfunny — shadow of its former self.
Posted in Guest Contributor, TV
Tagged @classic, crosstalk, humor
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David Moser on Mao impersonators
I first became aware of this phenomenon in 1992 when I turned on a Beijing TV variety show and was jolted by the sight of “Mao Zedong” and “Zhou Enlai” playing a game of ping pong. They both gave short, rousing speeches, and then were reverently interviewed by the emcee, who thanked them profusely for taking time off from their governmental duties to appear on the show.
Posted in Guest Contributor, TV
Tagged @classic, humor, Impression, Mao Zedong
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