Laowai favourite, the Onion-esque China Daily Show has made the big time with a profile in the New York Times/International Herald Tribune, along with an interview with the site's illusive creator, "Mr. R".
Traditionally, authoritarian states resent satire – laughter is powerfully subversive – and China is no exception, carefully controlling critical chuckles in the media with a wide range of technological tools…
I look forward to loading up Google every April 1st, but this one takes the cake. Straight from Google's newly released Google Maps 8-bit for the NES, China:
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Some days it just feels like this:
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Alright, I'm a bit slow picking this up, as it made the rounds a few days ago, but felt it was worth the late share all the same. It really should be called Shit Shanghai Laowai Say as there's a lot of very localized references in it (I miss Sherpa's), but still quite funny.
What do you mean you don't have a VPN? :)
H/T Shanghaiist…
While most laowai are probably familiar with the phenomenon of the “ant tribe,” a recent article in The Economist introduced a number of other “tribes” of stressed-out young Chinese struggling to survive in the urban jungle.
Perhaps the most unusual is the “crush-crush tribe” (捏捏族), who release their frustrations by hiding in supermarket aisles and crushing packages of instant noodles.
The crush-crush tribe…
H/T Shanghaiist…
Apparently it is movie week here at Lost Laowai, because I have another recent Chinese flick to review. In an effort to help learn Chinese I always ask my students about good recent movies. Let's be honest, most Chinese movies us foreigners hear about are either political or kung-fu based. However, I’m interested in the other movies; the comedies, the teen movies, the things my students relax with at night. I’m not l…
A lot of photos I choose to feature here are serious, gritty or artsy -- felt it was about time for a humorous one. Taken at Suzhou's famously-designed-by-IM-Pei museum, it looks like this guy is putting some Tai Qi lessons to practical use. Check out Jun Ballena's photostream for a whack of beautifully vibrant photography.
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It's tough being a Chinese press agency. It's even tougher being the Chinese press agency. Everyone's just waiting for you to stumble, people label you as a "mouthpiece", call you "unethical" and "biased", and dub you "pseudo-journalists"; but through it all you staunchly hold your head high and publish this:
Xinhua editors must have felt the much-truncated rewrite of a Daily Mail article was lacking a bit of …
This is just all sorts of awesome. Created by the 18 Mighty Mountain Warriors (bio below), the video delivers what's on the box -- the (abridged) history of China in 3 1/2 minutes.
Sorry, no non-Youtube version for all you non-VPNers (does anyone not have a VPN these days?)
18MMW Bio
Quite possibly the world's most psychotic Asian American Theatrical Comedy group, the Warriors have been together since 1994…
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