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Professional Housewives: Chinese College Girls’ Dream Job


Posted on Dec 29, 2008 by Steven Lin | Filed under: Video News, Wild Wild China | 2 Comments

In the gloomy days of this economic downturn, Chinese college girls are going to matrimonial agencies instead of overheated job fairs. Ms. Yang, who works for a matrimonial agency in Shandong province, says in this video, “Whether you have a bachelors or a masters degree, it’s pretty difficult to find a decent job. People tend [...]

Public Wooing: Fearless or Shameless?


Posted on Dec 29, 2008 by Steven Lin | Filed under: UGC, Wild Wild China | 3 Comments
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Last week on the campus of South China Agricultural University, a boy staged a very public wooing of his dream girl in a way I’ve never seen before. With a bouquet of roses in hand, the desperate college boy asked his friends to set some striking banners saying “Silly girl, I miss you so much. [...]

Merry X-mas, Beijing


Posted on Dec 25, 2008 by Steven Lin | Filed under: UGC | Comments Off
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“Anyway, Merry Fxxking Christmas!” People send their greetings this way in this bleak winter. When Americans are struggling to make mortgage payments and credit-card minimums, my friends in Beijing also told me they would rather stay at home watching endless free TV shows on Christmas Eve than spend time and money in luxury restaurants or [...]

Parkour in Guangxi University


Posted on Dec 24, 2008 by Steven Lin | Filed under: UGC | 1 Comment
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Parkour, sometimes called Free Running (though purist Parkour devotees draw distinctions between the two), is an increasingly popular physical activity that originated in France. With its popularization through films like the Daniel Craig Bond flick Casino Royale and Bruce Willis’s Live Free or Die Hard, Parkour now has adherents and practitioners the world over — [...]

Video Ads: Microsoft China vs Google China


Posted on Dec 24, 2008 by Steven Lin | Filed under: Viral Video Ads | Comments Off
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Recently, you may have noticed some online video ads for Microsoft China and Google China on Youku’s front page. Hmm… I’ve got no comment for the following clips: Cool Features from MSN 9 (Windows Live Messenger 2009) Xiao Gu Ge Ge’s Happy Life (Google’s official Chinese name is “Gu Ge”)

Crazy Dancing in Henan


Posted on Dec 23, 2008 by Steven Lin | Filed under: UGC, Wild Wild China | 2 Comments
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Well… First of all, if you want to remain in good holiday cheer for Christmas Eve, please just skip this crazy video. It contains neither violent scenes nor strong language, but left me feeling very uncomfortable after watching it. There’s no more information about the video except that the sequences were captured by a Youku [...]

So You Think Your Fingers Can Dance


Posted on Dec 23, 2008 by Steven Lin | Filed under: UGC | 1 Comment

The following finger dances and body gestures are not that easy to imitate as you imagine. Numbers at the beginning of every section means the percentage of people who can’t do the “magic”. This is the second video from “Fun Guys” (饭人团). Last week, the production team’s first video clip which featured a young man [...]

Catch Me If You Can


Posted on Dec 22, 2008 by Steven Lin | Filed under: Wild Wild China | Comments Off
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Here is today’s most viewed video on Youku: a police car slowly “chased” a zigzagging overloaded truck for at least 7:07 (the length of the video clip) on a Chinese highway and found no way to catch up. It has been honored “The Cockiest Truck of All Time” by Youku’s users. NB!

Look Out, Sk8er Boiz


Posted on Dec 19, 2008 by Steven Lin | Filed under: Video News | 1 Comment
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ATTENTION: Some material in this video clip may be inappropriate for children under 13 or adults who abominate car accident scenes. On November 13th, a skater boy got hit by a bus running the red light and died immediately in the west side of Tiananmen Square. One month later, the boy’s father and the bus [...]

This Is What We Call Guts


Posted on Dec 18, 2008 by Steven Lin | Filed under: Video News, Wild Wild China | Comments Off

We all know that driving after drinking is extremely dangerous, so how about driving after drinking, fighting with the bank’s security guards, and then peeing on armored cars for money transfer operation? It is a miracle that these drunken guys haven’t been killed immediately. One and a half years ago, a guy who argued with [...]