Well, they’re over. With the barbarian hordes headed home and 1.3 billion Chinese looking around asking “what now?” – here are a couple links to some amazing moments captured on film during the course of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. The first is a slick collection from the New York Times complete with a bit [...]
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Photo of the Week: Chinese Olympic Cheerleaders
Only two days until the opening ceremonies of the Beijing Olympics and with all the cynicism floating around – we here at Lost Laowai needed a little somethin’ somethin’ to … ahem… raise our Olympic spirits. Thanks to ChineseTools.eu for helping us out. Observant readers will remember we featured these girls previously as well.
Olympic fashion (non)sense
Well, everyone and their grandma is calling the 2008 Beijing Olympics China’s coming out party, and they’ve just been given the biggest reason yet, as it doesn’t get any gayer than this.
Sorry, I don’t mean to offend or misrepresent the gay community, <em>Queer Eye</em> teaches us you all have far more fashion sense than this.
This fashion faux pas of the century (and we’re still early into it) is China’s official Olympic opening ceremony uniform.
A sober discussion about the Olympics
There’s little doubt that the 2008 Beijing Olympics have become more a political affair galvanizing views of China between “Western bias” and “blind Chinese nationalism” than anything even remotely resembling a global, peace-celebrating sporting event.
Because of this, there’s been an endless barrage of reporting and blogging that has gone a long way to inciting these [...]
ChinesePod releases Chinese Olympics guide
With that title, it sort of sounds like they were holding one of those eager English-language students hostage.
Terrorist activities aside, Chinesepod.com has produced a fantastic guide to the Beijing Olympics for visitors, athletes, journalists – or just whelps like myself who can’t be bothered to deal with the crowds, but wouldn’t mind brushing up on [...]
Time Out tangled in twisted web of Chinese regulations
I just got finished reading that Time Out Beijing, one of the city’s preeminent English-language entertainment guides, has been suspended indefinitely.
Not, as one might guess, because it had been publishing subvert-the-youth articles or anything of the sort – but simply because it wasn’t properly licensed.
Fair enough.
I mean, in pretty much any country you’d need proper [...]
Carrefour needs catchy mobile meme
Hot off the extremely reliable mobile SMS chain comes news that Carrefour and the French government have banned together to concoct a special May Holiday sale to lure Chinese customers away from their boycott.
And not just that, French TV is hoping to catch it all for the 6-o’clock news, presumably to put the French people’s [...]
Sports + Politics = No French Bread
The lead-up to the Beijing 2008 Olympics has spun so totally out of whack that I believe they need to add a new sport to the Games – Puerile Ping Pong.
The event pits countries from across the globe against each other in a balls-out relay race to see who can reach absolute absurdity first, all [...]
‘My money’s on China’, Some Grey Bloke
A little humour to lighten the mood about the whole thing.
H/T Pandapassport, via Hao Hao Report (like this video? Be sure to vote for it.)
China’s multiple entry visas cut off until after Olympics
In what can only be assumed to be fear over increased problems related to the Olympic games, China has cut off multiple entry travel visas, and limited them to 30 days.
As Journey to Nowhere reports from the SCMP (which stoically continues to charge for online content):
Beijing has stopped issuing multiple-entry visas, risking major inconvenience to [...]
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