How could Li Yuchun (李宇春) and Cui Jian (崔健) possibility perform at the same live show, especially one billed as a rock ‘n roll show? It did happen, and with some chaotic consequences.
Last night, in the second Green Flag Grassland Music Festival, lots of bottles were thrown at the somewhat androgynous Li Yuchun. People yelled [...]
Yesterday’s total solar eclipse — the longest of the century blah blah — might have been a big disappointment for those who traveled halfway ’round the world to Shanghai to see it, but the lousy weather that ruined things for Shanghai wasn’t to be found everywhere in the eclipse’s path through China. By 2:30 pm [...]
A fantastic proposal video got circulated widely today on all the major Chinese SNS websites. A bunch of geeks help a guy propose, by making hundreds of mobile phones into a big LED displaying “I heart U”. Quite warm-hearted.
But before your heart gets too warm, know that at the end of the video, it turns [...]
Recently, we’ve heard of a rumor that a Fortune 500 company will release a viral video featuring Furong Jiejie (芙蓉姐姐) and Xiaopang (小胖). My first reaction is: WTF? Are you bloody kidding me?
Let me give you some background infomation about Furong Jiejie (via Danwei):
Furong Jiejie writes boring nonsense about herself and publishes photographs of herself [...]
The Flowers (花儿乐队) is quite an infamous pop band from mainland China. Three years ago, New Century Weekly magazine (新世纪周刊) revealed that the band plagiarized 13 songs in 2 albums published from 2004 to 2005. Since then, the band have never quite gotten out from under that crowd. Last month, they announced that they were [...]
Peng Cong, an ordinary Telecoms Bureau officer from Chongqing, has invested 150,000 RMB in the past 6 years for his extraordinary project - to make an airoplane! The most unbelievable part is, his monthly salary is only 2,000 RMB.
The airoplane you can see in the video is 5.5m long and 10m wide. The highest speed [...]
Hmm… Very little actual information is available in this video. But let me briefly translate the related news from the Guangzhou Daily for you. The title is, “Facing Traffic Problem on the Way to School, Parent sent High School Student to School by HELICOPTER”!
At 00:05 of the video, a student in uniform comes out of [...]
It may have been a little late, but at long last Chinese Michael Jackson fans — and they are legion, they are indeed legion — have finally joined in with their own flash-mob tribute to the King of Pop. This doesn’t exactly compare to similar fan tributes like these from Sweden, which are absolutely amazing, [...]
Actually this video is not from China. But I think we should share some cute videos that will help you get out of the chaos and endless crazy news in this summer.
The MV is called “日々の音色” (Tone of Every Day) for Sour the Japanese rock band. Actually, this is their first single. The producer makes [...]
