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Stop the presses: Lauren wants a piece of Yao Ming!

zhangbohan — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 05:39:00 -0500

Netease published an absolutely hilarious article today, alleging that basketball player Lauren Jackson has been wooing Yao Ming. Apparently she has publicly expressed her love for China's man monster.
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Liang Chow — Shawn Johnson’s Coach

ChineseSession — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 11:52:00 -0500

Liang Chow, or Qiao Liang (乔良), are famous now for being the coach of Shawn Johnson, the silver medalist of women’s all-around. He was once well-know in China at 80’s when he was the captain of Chinese gymnastic team. However, this trip is the Beijinger’s first time home for 14 years. He was focus again [...]
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China Blog Awards 2007 : Best China Blogs winners

Chinalyst — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 14:48:05 -0500

Chinalyst has been running the China Blog Awards 2007 for the last month. Voting for the best China blogs opened on 01.07 and closed yesterday. Voting is now over and the results are in.

Best Business-Law China Blog
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Nude athlete pictures were airbrushed

BeijingOlympics — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 22:38:00 -0500

The mother of British cyclist Rebecca Romero, says her underwear was actually airbrushed from the shot.
“Rebecca is 28, she’s old enough to make decisions to do things like that,” she said.
“She has had other offers that she turned down.
“She did talk to me about it and it was tastefully done and they air brushed out [...]
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China Still in Denial Over Olympic Gymnastics Age Scandal

rvance — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 20:40:00 -0500

“We always knew they were under sixteen years old,” a group of Chinese students told me yesterday. “We had no idea that there was an age limit for gymnastics in the Olympics. If there really is, then China did break the rules.” We were discussing the real possibility that three members of China’s gold medal winning Olympic gymnastics team did not [...]
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How the New York Times (should have) covered the Olympics

Black and White Cat — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:55:00 -0500

After seven grinding exciting years of preparation, the Olympics are mercifully sadly over. So what did the foreigners think of it all? The “western media” are sometimes accused of prejudice against China, focusing too much on the negative and ignoring the positive. Not so Charles McGrath of the New York Times who had nothing bad [...]
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Miss China - Zhang Zilin 张梓琳 - is the new Miss World 2007

Chinalyst — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 19:47:49 -0600

I woke up this morning to find 6 (!!!) emails awaiting me from friends and people I don’t even know telling me that the People’s Republic of China girl - Zhang Zilin - won the China Miss World 2007. Strange! I had no idea people are that into Miss World or that they consider me as being [...]
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British garbage in China

Keir — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 22:59:49 -0500

Guardian today has two great articles by Jonathan Watts about how British high street waste is fouling streams and ditches in China despite promises of an environmental crackdown by both governments.
http://tinyurl.com/2emayj
http://tinyurl.com/2bbt87

China Blog Awards - Best China Blogs 2007

Chinalyst — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 05:05:19 -0500

Chinalyst, the community website for English language China blogs, is pleased to announce an all-new China Blog Awards for the China blogs registered with the community.
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IOC Finally Takes Action on Olympic Gymnastics Age Scandal

rvance — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 20:01:00 -0500

I am not going to allow myself to wonder why the IOC (International Olympic Committee) waited until three days before the end of the Olympics to fully address the Chinese gymnastic age scandal. I am not going to even dwell on the fact that the ID’s and birth certificates that China provided to the IOC [...]
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Wear one dress in 4 ways!

Siyan — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 14:26:00 -0500

I tear up when I watch this

oponopo — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 21:27:00 -0500

This is the best video ever. If you have been surfing around for the past two months you have probably already seen it. I am sure you will want to see it again, because after all, it is the best video ever.
Where the Hell is Matt? (2008) from Matthew Harding on Vimeo.
It makes [...]
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New Stuff I Saw from the Taxi Window

cityweekend — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 23:49:00 -0500

Date: Aug 28th 2008 12:49p.m.

Contributed by:
tristamarie

I usually take the same route to work every day. Metro Line 1, Hengshan Lu subway station to People's Square. However, sometimes, when the heat is searing (or I'm running late), I hop a cab and head down Hengshan, then Changshu Lu, then onto the Yan'an elevated highway and off at People's Square.
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iPhone Girl

woaizhongguo — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 21:40:00 -0500

One lucky man in the UK found several photos of a mystery girl on his iPhone when he unpacked it from the box. Apparently it’s a factory worker on the assembly line at Foxconn’s Shenzhen plant (they make the iPhone’s for Apple as well as iPods).
This seems to have caused quite a bit of excitement [...]
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Dialogue

Chosen — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 12:08:30 -0600

One of my students asked if I liked CCTV-9. I replied that Yang Rui's association with the channel made it impossible to watch. 'What's wrong with Yang Rui?' my students demanded, at which point I launched into a scathing invective about the true nature of debate and how this pathetic individual mocks balanced discussion, lacks any vestige of journalistic integrity with his smarmy questioning of party apologists, and didn't have the courtesy to reply to the email I sent him. Total wanker.
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Spanish “Christmas light” swimsuits banned in synchronized swimming

BeijingOlympics — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 03:50:00 -0500

The Spanish synchronized swimming team, were hoping to add a bit of color to their swimsuits by embedding waterproof lights in their costumes.
“It got very sophisticated because obviously the battery doesn’t last long and then we had to look at circuits and interrupters, so we have been working on it around two months with a [...]
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Which free blog services are NOT blocked in China right now?

Caliboy888 — Tue, 08 May 2007 18:09:18 -0500

So back when I was living in China in the dark ages (2002-2004) I migrated my blog from Blogspot to Xanga, because at the time Blogspot was blocked and Xanga was not. Well since I've moved back to the US, I don't always know what's going on with the Chinese net. Well apparently things have flipped around and Xanga is now blocked.
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Some funny Olympic/translation jokes

Joel — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 23:29:00 -0500

“In my 20 years living in the US, one big cultural pity is that I rarely laugh at English jokes. I’m sure those of you “foreigners” who have moved to China have the same problem. A translated joke is often even worse – we’ll all be lost in translation. Nonetheless, lets try a few here.”
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Stephanie Rice to carry flag for Australia in closing ceremony

BeijingOlympics — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 23:08:00 -0500

Australian swimming champion Stephanie Rice has been chosen to carry the flag for Australia at the closing ceremony of the Beijing Olympics.
“He (John Coates) said, I’d really like for you to be the flag bearer and I just thought, oh my gosh. I never even saw that coming at all,” Rice said.
“I feel so honoured [...]
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Usain Bolt cops a scolding from Jacques Rogge

BeijingOlympics — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 00:18:00 -0500

IOC President Jacques Rogge, has criticized Usain Bolt for being too much of a showman after he won the 100 and 200 meter sprints.
“That’s not the way we perceive being a champion,” Rogge said.
He added:
“I have no problem with him doing a show,” Rogge said in an interview with three international news agency reporters. “I [...]
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China Experimenting with Singaporean-style HDB Housing Schemes

China Briefing — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 22:31:00 -0500

Aug. 28 - China has been experimenting in looking to solve its low cost housing market, aimed at getting low-income families on the steps of the property ladder, by piloting an Housing Development Board-style scheme in Changsha.
The successful Singaporean HDB scheme requires all Singaporean nationals to contribute to a centrally managed government property fund as [...]

Zaobao Zaobao! August 28th, 2008: Getting robbed by your government.

cityweekend — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 01:09:00 -0500

Date: Aug 28th 2008 2:09p.m.

Contributed by:
wudao
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Funny Bits from Beijing Olympics

xje — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 12:17:00 -0500

I was away last week and did not get the time to share with you a few funny notes sent by friends in China. In my 20 years living in the US, one big cultural pity is that I rarely laugh at English jokes. I'm sure those of you "foreigners" who have moved to China have the same problem. A translated joke is often even worse – we'll all be lost in translation.
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Dress code at the gym: high heels?

Jonna — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 19:36:00 -0500

Respect?! (Picture:Xinhuanet/AFP)

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What's good about China?

The Iron Buddha — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 07:53:47 -0500

I'm in a funk again. I live in China and there's so much wrong with the place I sometimes find it difficult to remember why I came here or what's good about the place so I've started this thread.

I want to hear what's good about China and the Chinese. I don't want to hear racist nationalist rants or communist economic miracle propaganda, I want to hear what's REALLY good. I'll start:

1. Guo Tie (friend dumplings)
2. The way they take care of old people

Elena Isinbaeva has won the gold and set a new WR in women’s pole vault

BeijingOlympics — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 09:38:00 -0500

Elena Isinbaeva from Russia as expected has won the gold medal in women’s pole vault setting a new world record of 5.05.
She has broken the world record for the 24th time.

Jennifer Stuczynski from the United States won the silver medal and Svetlana Feofanova from Russia won the bronze.
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Harmony and the Dream: The Difference Between East and West

mgms35 — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 09:11:00 -0500

In the 2nd semester of my sophomore year of college, I was honored to take a class with professor Jeffrey Friedman entitled Liberalism, Communitarianism and the Good. POLS V3027 was a political science class focused on theory and the development of political beliefs based on various factors, cultures and influences.
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