Some very nice from the National Day parade, celebrating the big 60 in Beijing, from Dan Chung of the U.K.’s The Guardian. Edited with the obligatory, ominous slow-motion for the tanks. Numerous comments here, many of which note how much better this footage was than what ran on Chinese television. I don’t really know, personally: [...]
A “Mr. Wu” of Lishui in Zhenjiang province hit the brakes when the light turned red at the intersection he was approaching. Next thing he knew, he says, some shadowy form fell onto the windshield of his car. Then he noticed that it was a person. A traffic camera captured what happened. Don’t worry, nothing [...]
Some very impressive military discipline on display here in a BTV report from Tian’anmen Square, where the three branches of the PLA are parading in rehearsal for the big day, now only 10 days away.
I’ve heard that they actually had sharp tacks in the collars of their uniforms to make sure that they kept their [...]
If you didn’t happen to be in downtown Beijing around 11am yesterday, you missed a preview of the mini air show planned for the Party’s party, the October 1 60th b-day celebration. Never fear, you can see the highlight reel above.
I grew up in Tucson, Arizona, near a huge U.S. Air Force base called Davis-Monthan, [...]
Hong Kong hearthrob Andy Lau (Liu Dehua) admitted yesterday to having lied about his marital status. He is, as it turns out, married to his Malaysian girlfriend Carol Chu, and has been for a year. The information came to light when reporters, who are always trying to dig up shit about those poor Hong Kong [...]
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 [...]
We posted earlier today about Afterquake, a music relief project to commemorate last year’s devastating earthquake in Sichuan. Here’s a terrific music video that Luke Mines just sent us. This is what he has to say about it:
The song is called “Sala”. It is a traditional Qiang minority song, but all the kids in Wenchuan [...]
If you weren’t able to catch the live broadcast of China’s President Hu Jintao at the official observance of the anniversary of the Wenchuan Earthquake, you can see it here. President Hu went to Yingxiu Township, the hardest-hit town in Wenchuan County, the quake’s epicenter. The monument is in front of the collapsed Xuankou Middle [...]
As most of you know, a year ago today, a massive earthquake rocked central Sichuan Province, killing over 80,000 people and displacing some 15 million people from their homes.
In March, my friend the American filmmaker Luke Mines of “Sexy Beijing” fame went to Sichuan to shoot a video for a project called Afterquake, which combines [...]
Strong-Willed Pig (猪坚强), the fat, lazy and bad-tempered Chinese celebrity pig that survived on charcoal and rainwater for 36 days while trapped under debris from the Wenchuan earthquake, was back in the spotlight recently. When H1N1 (a.k.a Swine Flu) awoke Chinese people’s memories of SARS, some netizens were curious about how the Stong-Willed Pig was [...]
