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From The Independent’s slideshow of Olympic photographs.
Now that the Olympics are over, the foreign media and China observers are all quick to speculate about what will happen in the post-Olympic era.
Here’s a brief sampling of what’s being addressed:
-  The economy:  While many foreign companies are concerned about a possible downturn, Chinese officials point out that [...]

A classic moment today at my local McDonald’s: A young girl was eating an early lunch at about 11:30 am with an older guy, probably her grandfather. Gramps wasn’t hungry, but he was definitely thirsty, as he took several large swigs from his bottle of Red Star erguotou (in the classic green flask). He even gave [...]
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Just last week a taxi that I was in made a sharp U-turn right into oncoming traffic and we narrowly avoided being rear ended by a fast approaching white sedan which neither slowed down or changed lanes to avoid collision. Stupid idiot, I thought to myself about my taxi driver who looked neither shaken or sorry that [...]
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Well, it’s Monday - the day after the Closing Ceremony of the Beijing Olympics.
Things around the city seem to be pretty much the same - the car ban is still in effect and they still x-ray bags in the subway… I imagine these measures, and many more, will remain until at least the end of [...]
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What have the Olympic Games done to affect the world’s discussions about China? Perhaps, very little. Instead of delving into the diversity and complexity of “China,” journalists focused on sports, especially the journalist’s home team. Cultural reporting, too, reflected the journalists’ national identities.
John Burns, a veteran foreign correspondent for The New York Times remembers today [...]



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You couldn’t have asked for more perfect conditions for a Saturday afternoon baseball game at Wukesong.
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We took the super-fast train to Beijing (30 minutes) yesterday to run around and see as much Olympic stuff as we could. Here are some photos. Click them to see bigger sizes.
Seeing Beijing was fun, and getting there was convenient, but honestly the Olympic stuff was disappointing. It’s all big and grand [...]
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“Add fuel?”“Let’s go?”“Olé! Olé! Olé?”“Come on?” One of the quirkier news stories that has come out of the Beijing Olympics is how to translate the ubiquitous Chinese cheer 加油 (jiāyóu). The New York Times Rings blog wrote about the various contexts that 加油 has been used–ranging [...]

I talked briefly before about how NBC’s coverage of the opening ceremonies was done very badly with cutting to commercials and by [block]0[/block]trying to limit worldwide Internet coverage before NBC would show it within the US. However, the coverage of the competition during the 2008 Beijing Olympics has been very well laid covered and with [...]