Even a month after the CCTV Spring Festival Gala, Chinese people are constantly talking about the funny performance delivered by Xiao Shenyang (小沈阳), digging out every single video clip tagged with his name, and riffing on his humor style in e-mails, on QQ chats, and in SMS messages.
Who the hell is Xiao Shenyang (or Little [...]
For me, the most annoying part of the Beijing subway is neither the fake beggars nor the noisy vendors, but the security baggage screening they started doing one month before the 2008 Olympic Games began. Three months ago, a passenger refused the subway security check and put caused big mess at Tiananmen West station.
To justify [...]
In the spring of 2006, rumors popped up all over the Web of some desperate speeders on the 2nd Ring Road here in Beijing. As the Guangzhou Daily reported, the fastest record holder called “Sir 13 of the Second Ring” (二环十三郎) finished the 32.7 km long ring road in just 13 minutes, topping out at [...]
Call it a shanzai Counterstrike if you will, but CrossFire (or 穿越火线, chuanyue huoxian), developed by Korean game company Smile Gate, licensed by another Korean company called NeoWiz, and published in China by Tencent on QQ Games, has a huge following here in China. The game has ranked and continues to rank in the top [...]
Great news for the Mac community: after developing, debugging, and testing for a long period, Youku.com today annouced its new uploading interface, which finally fully supports most browsers for Mac OS X - Safari, Firefox, Camino, and so on. Phew… what a breakthrough!!!
On the top of every page on Youku.com, you can find this upload [...]
As Variety magazine recently reported, after local media disclosed that one actor had played four experts using different names while advertising drugs, China has banned actors from posing as medical experts or patients in commercials, following its ban on thesps and celebrities hosting medical shows imposed late last year.
Frankly, it’s not a big deal. Smart [...]
The latest installment in our continuing series about sadly misguided men making asses of themselves for the women they love. This guy, from Tailai County in China’s northeasternmost province Heilongjiang, strips to the waist in -30 degree weather to profess his love. If the woman didn’t promptly leave him and get a restraining order, [...]
Generally I’m pretty blown away by cellular network coverage in China. Go anywhere else in the so-called developed world and you can forget using your mobile phone in subways, elevator shafts, and along stretches of superhighway between towns. Cell coverage in China is one of the perquisites of living in an authoritarian country: “We’re putting [...]
A shopping mall in Nanning, Guangxi hosted a kissing contest on Valentine’s Day. Check out this video for some of the weirdest and most disquieting tonsil-hockey skills of all time. The announcer describes the competing couples by the decade of their birth — the 七零后 (qilinghou, or post-1970), 八零后 (balinghou, or post-1980), and 九零后 (post-1990). [...]
Thank God he decided to head this one off. Beijing’s young and impressionable athletes, who like everyone else on earth have by now seen photos of eight-time gold medalist Michael Phelps sucking down a bong hit, were surely rushing out to score hash from the neighborhood Uighur yangrouchuanr slinger or buds from one of the [...]
