We blogged about Chinese Students’ “Recess Exercises” a few weeks ago. Most of you might think, WTF… every student must hate these excruciating and soul-crushing vestiges of the old system.
There you’d be wrong.
Here is a great counterexample for you: an unbelievable recess exercises addict. Look at his Kungfu Panda style actions, and listen to the [...]
We just spotted an excellent short animated film called “Yuan” (元, Origin) produced by Youku user Zhang Peng (张朋), who’s spent three months on this masterpiece as his senior year project for college.
In the short film, you will see some traditional Chinese myths, like the story of Pangu (盘古), who took 18,000 years to completely [...]
As you know, Evolution of Dance is the all-time most viewed online video in the US. Meanwhile, videos of dance are also quite popular among Chinese netizens. The only difference is that they’re not single dances. They’re collective.
Recently, a video of hilarious dance brought to you by employees of the Tianjin Post Office drew almost [...]
Just how terrible is the air pollution in today’s China? Here’s the answer: James Fallows, a national correspondent for The Atlantic, compared Beijing’s air quality before, during, and after the 2008 Olympic Games.
Now, some smart Chinese street vendors have found a new way to make money: selling fresh air.
This is a scene captured by Youku’s [...]
This is the second Nokia viral video featuring Bruce Lee. First one (Bruce Lee playing table tennis) is here.
He’s lighting matches with his nunchaku! Nunchaku!!!!!! Was this scene generated by computer? Anybody can tell me? I just cannot believe my eyes! What the @#$%#@$@$@!!!
Please meet the Meizu M8, the big aspirational gadget-of-the-week for Chinese consumers, the greatest iPhone clone you’ve ever seen, and still, the biggest mystery in China’s mysterious shanzhai world.
In January 2007, Jack Wong, Meizu’s CEO, claimed that the original M8 design for a massive-touchscreen cellphone debuted four days before Macworld, where Steve Jobs wowed the [...]
Nokia recently released an online viral video featuring Bruce Lee playing table tennis invincibly. What’s in his hand is not a ping pong paddle, but… a nunchaku!
This video was made for the Nokia N96 Bruce Lee Edition. This week, it got widely spread among Chinese netizens.
But the first time we spotted this video, it was [...]
This TVC was created in 1984 by Miao Haizhong (苗海忠), the boy who appears in the video above. Thanks to collectors of the unusual, we can still find these ancient videos which would have been buried six feet under the CCTV tower.
Back then, Miao was an 18 year old high school student selected from 2,000 [...]
According to the Guinness Book of World Records, Natalie Lantos, who was a student at the CompuCollege School of Business back in 1998, set the World Record in typing - 192 English words per minute.
So, how fast can human beings type in Chinese, the language with approximately 47,035 different characters? Here’s the answer: 502 Chinese [...]
“In this festival, we accept no gift, no gift, no gift. However, Brain Platinum is an exception. Brain Pla-ti-num!” (今年过节不收礼，收礼还收脑白金。脑-白-金！) Two funny elderly people sing and dance in this highly annoying TVC, jingle courtesy of Qiu Ye, frontman of the Beijing-based rock band Confucius Sez.
The Chinese people have a long tradition of supplementing their diet [...]
