China Videos
Video: China, China…
Some days it just feels like this:
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Video: BASE Jumping at Tianmen Shan in China
You have to have a set of stones to don a wingsuit and jump off a mountain in China. Fortunately for all our entertainment pleasure, these guys have just such a set:
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Shit Laowai Say
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.
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Video: Shanghai in time-lapse
Title really says it all. As monster cities go, Shanghai has got to be one of my favourites — this video is a nice tribute to her.
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History of China in 3½ Minutes
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.
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Canuck expat loses it at train ticket office
Some Gems: “Chinese people need to learn brains.” “It’s 2011. Chairman Mao is dead.” And the kicker: “See, I’m Canadian, I don’t have to shut up. Chinese people have to shut up. Canada people [sic] don’t have to shut up.”Read More
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Bad Teacher, Good Teacher
Caught these two videos during my rounds today. The first comes from the Shanghaiist and shows why China should never trust a Russian screen their ESL teachers: Shanghaiist reader (and tipster), Alexander, explains why appending English phrases with “BLYA” makes videos of Chinese kids viral in Russia: On this video Laowai-teacher (maybe from Russia) teaches …Read More
Movies
Review: Last Train Home
There’s an undeniable disconnect between being a foreigner in China and being a Chinese in China. Yeah, I know, thank you Captain Obvious. As self-evident as that statement is, it’s sometimes easy to neglect the truth in it and ignore the consequences of what it is to be Chinese in China. Maybe this is only …Read More
Humour
Major General Genre, Mao’s apple is far from the tree
There is a Chinese saying, è™Žçˆ¶æ— çŠ¬å, which mirrors the old Western adage “the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.” Love him or hate him, it’s tough to argue that the late Mao Zedong wasn’t extremely charismatic and a commanding leader. The same is not as often said about his grandson, Mao Xinyu. A new …Read More
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Video: Chinese flight attends shake things up with safety dance
I’ve been on my share of flights where the flight attendants tried to spice things up with a bit of comedy or improv, but this is a first. The video below shows three flight attendants from China’s Capital Airlines putting a bit of a shimmy in their safety instructions.Read More
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Video: 2011 Year of the Rabbit
So, it’s a little late and most of us have begrudgingly returned to work, but æ–°å¹´å¿«ä¹ fellow laowai. I captured my own thoughts, photos and videos of my 6th Chinese New Year’s Eve on my blog, and so won’t waste space with a reiteration here. However, I wanted to share this great short video by …Read More
China Geeks helping Chinese children find home
Our friends at ChinaGeeks.org have recently started an ambitious new project that I have been meaning to find the time to write about for a couple weeks now. Check out this video for an introduction to “Finding Home”, a documentary that will explore on a personal level the terrible practice of kidnapping and selling children …Read More
