Guangdongers Purchase Live Chickens In Face of Avian Flu, As Per General Kung...
If you're some even-minded laowai who feels guilt at always being caught in the winch of the "China divide", hey, that's okay: Chinese generalize all the time themselves, no better than the usual trope...
View ArticleChina’s Milk Industry Proclaims Foreign Milk Products Inferior, Because it...
Forget about admitting faults and owning up to one's responsibilities: instead, just straight up state that Chinese milk products are just as good as foreign milk products, if not better. As for...
View ArticleMainland Tourists Complain of Late Bus Through Tears and Self-Victimization
When somebody says, "I'll be there in a jiffy," are you cognizant of the latent evil that forebodes in that statement? Are you aware that evil forces are afoot to prevent things from happening on time,...
View ArticleHigh School Issues Mandatory See-Thru Gym Clothes; Pedo, Panda Bear to Merge...
It does seem like a long explanation that lacks the immediacy of "I don't want perverts to be peeping at my kid's butt," but the long-windery of such a thoughtful explanation is to provide the school...
View ArticleThe Tragedy of Tragedy: Woman Driver Kills Husband, Self While Parking Car
This is the nature of Chinese news: sensational and provocative. It inflames readers' sensibilities and encourages judgment. It does not encourage dialogue into the mitigating causes of this accident....
View ArticleFather Believes News of Son’s Death to Be Work of Swindlers, Is Not...
This is a story about phone fraud without explicitly talking about it. Continue reading →
View ArticleFather Refutes News of Son’s Drowning Death Despite Being Called 56 Times
With a raspy, hoarse voice, Xiao said that he had called a total of 56 times to Chi's family from the night of the incident up until yesterday morning at 8PM. When the battery of Chi's cell phone ran...
View ArticleGrandmother Trapped Under Bus, Bystanders Busy Taking Pictures to Explain Why...
This is an amazing picture. Continue reading →
View ArticleCages of a Chinese Zoo: The Thin Line Between Entertainment and Cruelty
The sad case of neglect and abuse towards animals in zoos in China is long and troubled. Two recent cases of zoo patrons overstepping their bounds seem to illustrate that these zoo animals aren't...
View ArticleMan Attending Self-Improvement Seminar Drowns When Attempting to “Conquer His...
Never mind the dogs themselves: in China, it's a "dog-eat-dog" world. Competition is fierce in the business world as employees with seniority and experienced are rendered obsolete and redundant by new...
View Article3 Dead, 6 Injured in Traffic Accident Involving Only 2 Motorcycles and No...
A group of nine youths, aged 16 and 17 years of age, were coming back from the Yubei Central Park when they began to horseplay with each other while on the 2 motorcycles they were all collectively...
View ArticleXiamen Court Rules Woman’s Lost Virginity Must Be Compensated to Amount of 1 RMB
Xiao Mei sued Liu Yong. For taking away her virginity. In an act of fraud. Continue reading →
View ArticleWest Lake, Chinese Footbath: About Face With a Turn of the Heel
If it seems like "face" has been lost, then it has. Because "face" isn't something you actually lose; it's something you think you lose. Continue reading →
View ArticleCeremonial Fish Immediately Caught by Looters After Release by Temple
And so it around 5 PM on August 1st at the north east corner of the Jinding Bridge in Shichahai when an instant of "looting" occurred, for not long after the ceremony was finished and almost 50 kg of...
View ArticleHundreds of Cracks Appear in Bridge, So Hundreds of Cracks Are Filled In
So when hundreds of cracks appear on the bottom of a bridge in Haikou, Hainanprovince, it's very clear what the Chinese response will be: to fill in each of these hundreds of cracks. By hand. Lovingly....
View ArticleWoman Driver “Mistakes Accelerator for Brake”, Drives BMW Through Wall
A BMW is not a car, but a symbol, and it best be used correctly as such. Continue reading →
View ArticleSix Meter-High Maitreya Bodhisattva Statue on Qianling Mountain is Climbed By...
Here is the full translation from "Tourists Deface 6-Meter High Gold Buddha With Vandalism, Is Only an Illusion, Life Still Suffering". Continue reading →
View ArticleTourists Deface 6-Meter High Gold Buddha With Vandalism, Is Only an Illusion,...
But, there are cultural reasons why Chinese need to "to express wishes in their hearts" - it's because taking the abstract and intangible and committing it into readable text is equivalent to making...
View ArticleFather Won’t Pay for Daughter’s University Tuition, Says It’s “No Use”
Change is frightening to Chinese in the sense that it represents the uncomfortable unknown; coupled with the propensity to be humble and accept one's lot in life by not being too ambitious, it seems as...
View ArticleLionel Messi’s Football House Branded With Chinese Character
Talk is cheap; words are lies made by politicians and poets*. Symbols is where power lies. Even names, ostensibly words themselves, gain their influence as being symbols to something else. Continue...
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