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Farmers recreate “Along the River During the Qingming Festival”


Posted on Dec 21, 2009 by jeanshao | Filed under: Coming Soon, Society, UGC, Wild Wild China | 1 Comment

Once again from our omnipresent Youku paike have uploaded another excellent video report. Mr. Qin Shi Shiping (秦仕平), a Tangshan (唐山) peasant who has worked in the construction industry for many years, was struck back in 2005 by the idea of recreating the most famous Chinese classical painting, Along the River During the Qingming Festival [...]

Chinese Web Watch Words for 2009


Posted on Dec 8, 2009 by jeanshao | Filed under: Humor, Society, Uncategorized, Wild Wild China | No Comments

It’s the time of the year for list making! This Youku video clip named the nine hottest lines on China’s web this year. The Yangtze Evening Post, an influential newspaper, is the original list compiler.
According to the list, ge (哥, older brother, big brother) is without doubt the hottest net word of the year. Both [...]

Can You Solve a Rubik’s Cube With Your Eyes Closed?!


Posted on Aug 10, 2009 by Steven Lin | Filed under: OMFG, Wild Wild China | 1 Comment

I just couldn’t believe my eyes. At Youku’s Got Talent Night (优酷牛人盛典), a Youku user solved a Rubik’s Cube on the stage with his eyes under the table. From 2:25 to 3:25 of the video, he finished it in only one minute after memorizing each of the six faces.
The editor from our tech channel [...]

Lies, Damned Lies, and Misleading Videos


Posted on Jul 20, 2009 by Steven Lin | Filed under: Shanzhai, Wild Wild China | 4 Comments

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 [...]

Best Way to Beat Traffic: Helicopter


Posted on Jul 14, 2009 by Steven Lin | Filed under: UGC, Wild Wild China | 1 Comment

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 [...]

Are They High School Graduates or CIA Agents?


Posted on Jun 15, 2009 by Steven Lin | Filed under: Wild Wild China | 3 Comments

Do you still remember the fuzzy agent in the Get Smart the movie? Well, it seems that some high school graduates from Jilin province are much better than him: They used the latest cutting-edge equipment to cheat on the Gaokao exams.
Honestly, as a former journalist, I’ve never seen stuff this unbelievable before - a mini [...]

How Chinese Students Hate Gaokao Exams


Posted on Jun 9, 2009 by Steven Lin | Filed under: Wild Wild China | 2 Comments

In the past two days, more than 10 million Chinese graduates joined this year’s National Higher Education Entrance Examination, a.k.a Gaokao exams. For most of them, they’ve sacrificed countless weekends and holidays for this glorious exam, because they’ve been told that to enter a top university (and join the Party) is their only way to [...]

Pig Totemism is Back for H1N1!


Posted on May 5, 2009 by Steven Lin | Filed under: OMFG, Video News, Wild Wild China | No Comments

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 [...]

A Cross-dressing Star Is Born


Posted on Apr 21, 2009 by Steven Lin | Filed under: Music Videos, OMFG, Wild Wild China | 2 Comments

CAUTION: For the safety of your laptop, DO NOT drink any beverage while watching this video.

On April 12th, this boy (no mistake here!) uploaded his dance video to Youku. In the next five days, with no “editors’ pick of the day” or anything, more than 180,000 people have watched this video clip and reposted [...]

Is Hong Kong Airport the Bermuda for Hysteria?


Posted on Apr 13, 2009 by Steven Lin | Filed under: OMFG, Wild Wild China | 1 Comment

Holy f@#k… Another woman completely lost it in Hong Kong airport, again, over missing a flight. Risking entirely losing my already poor hearing, I made this brief transcription for you:
I don’t even have this right? Huh? Why did you police come asking us questions about ‘rights’? You didn’t give a damn about anything! No food, [...]