tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79117131049508739402024-03-06T04:59:02.634+08:00Heart of BeijingThe Taohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07647424661870773417noreply@blogger.comBlogger736125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7911713104950873940.post-57081644358541407522012-06-17T23:31:00.002+08:002012-06-17T23:31:39.635+08:00The Week That Was At Beijing Cream, June 11-17<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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We were the first English-language China blog to write about the story of the <a data-mce-href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/06/the-worst-story-youll-read-today-seven-month-old-pregnant-woman-beaten-forcibly-aborted/" href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/06/the-worst-story-youll-read-today-seven-month-old-pregnant-woman-beaten-forcibly-aborted/" target="_blank">27-year-old in Shaanxi</a> who was forced to abort at seven months. It broke on the same day that RFH took the opportunity to joke about the gaokao: <a data-mce-href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/06/real-gaokao-questions-hilarious-baffling-pointless-in-some-order/" href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/06/real-gaokao-questions-hilarious-baffling-pointless-in-some-order/" target="_blank">real questions were uncovered</a>, and they were ridiculous. Also, Louis CK has left the building. Here's our <a data-mce-href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/06/louis-ck-in-beijing-bjcs-review/" href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/06/louis-ck-in-beijing-bjcs-review/" target="_blank">review by RFH</a>.</div>
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Chengguan have had a bad week. Kids went "clockwork orange" on them, as Jeremiah Jenne tweeted on Twitter, referring to <a data-mce-href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/06/middle-school-students-beat-up-chengguan/" href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/06/middle-school-students-beat-up-chengguan/" target="_blank">this story</a> about a chengguan being overwhelmed by a mob of middle school students. That same day, we wrote about poor Josh Garcia, <a data-mce-href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/06/this-foreigner-proudly-dons-chengguan-uniform-outs-himself-as-massive-tool/" href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/06/this-foreigner-proudly-dons-chengguan-uniform-outs-himself-as-massive-tool/" target="_blank">chengguan tool</a>. And here's a chengguan <a data-mce-href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/06/what-does-a-chengguan-truck-on-fire-look-like/" href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/06/what-does-a-chengguan-truck-on-fire-look-like/" target="_blank">truck on fire</a>. If only chengguan were caught on tape doing what <a data-mce-href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/06/foreigner-doing-good-pedestrian-in-chengdu-clears-way-for-ambulance/" href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/06/foreigner-doing-good-pedestrian-in-chengdu-clears-way-for-ambulance/" target="_blank">this foreigner in Chengdu</a> did -- directing traffic to let an ambulance through -- maybe their reputation would improve. By the way, where were the chengguan when someone from the US embassy got <a data-mce-href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/06/us-embassy-employee-assaulted-in-nightclub-in-beijing-according-to-us-embassy/" href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/06/us-embassy-employee-assaulted-in-nightclub-in-beijing-according-to-us-embassy/" target="_blank">assaulted</a> outside Elements nightclub in Beijing?</div>
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Our post about the London's <a data-mce-href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/06/londons-olympics-opening-ceremony-will-look-nothing-like-beijings-anyones/" href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/06/londons-olympics-opening-ceremony-will-look-nothing-like-beijings-anyones/" target="_blank">Olympics opening ceremony</a> drew... interesting responses. A <a data-mce-href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/06/tianjin-llama-predicts-the-shit-out-of-euro-2012/" href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/06/tianjin-llama-predicts-the-shit-out-of-euro-2012/" target="_blank">llama in Tianjin</a> is the new Paul the Octopus, able to predict soccer matches. Guangdong's Euro 2012 <a data-mce-href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/06/guangdong-tv-trots-out-girls-in-bikinis-to-deliver-euro-2012-weather-forecast/" href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/06/guangdong-tv-trots-out-girls-in-bikinis-to-deliver-euro-2012-weather-forecast/" target="_blank">bikini girls</a> were a hit for a while, until producers decided to cover them with t-shirts. Here's latest edition of <a data-mce-href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/06/today-in-global-times-erotic-panda-fiction-part-2-the-biwalker/" href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/06/today-in-global-times-erotic-panda-fiction-part-2-the-biwalker/" target="_blank">panda erotic fiction</a>.</div>
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Just as we were talking about men <a data-mce-href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/06/man-who-rescued-child-from-balcony-handsomely-rewarded/" href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/06/man-who-rescued-child-from-balcony-handsomely-rewarded/" target="_blank">rescuing toddlers</a> from balconies, a three-year-old in Shenzhen <a data-mce-href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/06/three-year-old-in-shenzhen-dies-after-falling-from-4th-story-balcony/" href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/06/three-year-old-in-shenzhen-dies-after-falling-from-4th-story-balcony/" target="_blank">died</a> after falling from her fourth-story balcony. And here's a deputy police chief in Yunnan possibly <a data-mce-href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/06/deputy-police-chief-in-yunnan-accused-of-causing-car-wreck/" href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/06/deputy-police-chief-in-yunnan-accused-of-causing-car-wreck/" target="_blank">intentionally wrecking</a> someone. Tom Grundy of Hong Wrong, which we've linked to in our East is Read column, tried to <a data-mce-href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/06/watch-tony-blair-confronted-by-protestor-in-hong-kong/" href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/06/watch-tony-blair-confronted-by-protestor-in-hong-kong/" target="_blank">arrest Tony Blair</a> in Hong Kong. And The Good Doctor reviewed <a data-mce-href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/06/the-medullary-paralysis-in-beijing/" href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/06/the-medullary-paralysis-in-beijing/" target="_blank">The Medullary Paralysis show</a> in Beijing -- stolen, one might say, by its as-yet-unidentified opening act.</div>
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The weather's been somewhere between <a data-mce-href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/06/dalians-double-rainbow-has-nothing-on-beijing-right-now/" href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/06/dalians-double-rainbow-has-nothing-on-beijing-right-now/" target="_blank">very good</a> and <a data-mce-href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/06/this-mushroom-cloud-in-beijing-was-quite-the-spectacle/" href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/06/this-mushroom-cloud-in-beijing-was-quite-the-spectacle/" target="_blank">spectacular</a> this week in Beijing. Go outside and enjoy yourself. We'll still be here when you come back.</div>
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</div>The Taohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07647424661870773417noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7911713104950873940.post-3520964548509866022012-06-10T21:47:00.000+08:002012-06-17T21:48:41.297+08:00The Week That Was At Beijing Cream, June 4-10<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The Shanghai Stock Exchange on June 4 was <a data-mce-href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/06/a-june-4-story-the-shanghai-stock-exchange-is-messin-with-the-politburo/" href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/06/a-june-4-story-the-shanghai-stock-exchange-is-messin-with-the-politburo/">spitting out eye-catching numbers</a>, as RFH pointed out. He also wrote about a <a data-mce-href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/06/visit-the-real-london-olympics-in-beijing-sort-of/" href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/06/visit-the-real-london-olympics-in-beijing-sort-of/">London Olympics "village"</a> inside Beijing's Water Cube. Meanwhile, The Good Doctor wrote about Beijing's growing <a data-mce-href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/06/beijings-proliferating-graffiti-art/" href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/06/beijings-proliferating-graffiti-art/">graffiti scene</a>.</div>
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The Huffington Post, Business Insider and Bloomberg TV did <a data-mce-href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/06/today-in-shitty-journalism-huff-post-business-insider-and-bloomberg-tv-follow-the-blind/" href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/06/today-in-shitty-journalism-huff-post-business-insider-and-bloomberg-tv-follow-the-blind/">shitty journalism</a> this week. RFH wrote about Eva Cohen's <a data-mce-href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/06/chinas-media-conundrum-truth-or-bullshit/" href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/06/chinas-media-conundrum-truth-or-bullshit/">fishy guest post</a> over at Foreign Policy (the picture gave us the opportunity to quote Shaft). We ranted about Chinese officials telling the US to <a data-mce-href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/06/china-tells-us-to-stop-monitoring-its-air-quality-then-pees-in-diaper/" href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/06/china-tells-us-to-stop-monitoring-its-air-quality-then-pees-in-diaper/">stop monitoring</a> Beijing's air, and this <a data-mce-href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/06/have-problems-in-sanlitun-heres-the-cop-who-will-do-nothing-about-it/" href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/06/have-problems-in-sanlitun-heres-the-cop-who-will-do-nothing-about-it/">China Daily story</a> that glorifies a Sanlitun cop for all the wrong reasons.</div>
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A <a data-mce-href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/06/bus-driver-hit-with-unidentified-debris-continues-doing-job-warning-graphic-footage/" href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/06/bus-driver-hit-with-unidentified-debris-continues-doing-job-warning-graphic-footage/">bus driver in Hangzhou</a> who was fatally wounded by debris but continued to do his job has been declared a hero. Bizarrely, a bus in Beijing <a data-mce-href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/06/bus-reportedly-kills-police-officer-in-beijing-after-rolling-over-his-car/" href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/06/bus-reportedly-kills-police-officer-in-beijing-after-rolling-over-his-car/">did unspeakable things</a> to a police car, leaving one dead. The activist Li Wangwang was <a data-mce-href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/06/li-wangwang-labor-activist-political-prisoner-dissident-found-dead/" href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/06/li-wangwang-labor-activist-political-prisoner-dissident-found-dead/">found dead</a> in a hospital room, and his friends and family think foul play was involved (authorities say it was suicide).</div>
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The <a data-mce-href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/06/the-dramatic-rescue-of-a-kid-dangling-off-a-fourth-story-balcony/" href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/06/the-dramatic-rescue-of-a-kid-dangling-off-a-fourth-story-balcony/">dramatic rescue of a toddler</a> dangling from a fourth-story balcony found its way onto several traditional media outlets: the websites of the <a data-mce-href="http://blog.sfgate.com/hottopics/2012/06/07/video-toddler-dangles-from-balcony-by-his-neck-saved-by-neighbor/?tsp=1" href="http://blog.sfgate.com/hottopics/2012/06/07/video-toddler-dangles-from-balcony-by-his-neck-saved-by-neighbor/?tsp=1" target="_blank">San Francisco Chronicle</a>, <a data-mce-href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/watch-hero-scales-building-save-toddler-dangling-neck-apartment-ledge-article-1.1091473" href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/watch-hero-scales-building-save-toddler-dangling-neck-apartment-ledge-article-1.1091473" target="_blank">NY Daily News</a>, and Albany <a data-mce-href="http://blog.timesunion.com/hottopics/video-toddler-dangles-from-balcony-by-his-neck-saved-by-neighbor/10411/" href="http://blog.timesunion.com/hottopics/video-toddler-dangles-from-balcony-by-his-neck-saved-by-neighbor/10411/" target="_blank">Times Union</a> (and sourced on the <a data-mce-href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2012/jun/07/chinese-toddler-dangles-balcony-video" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2012/jun/07/chinese-toddler-dangles-balcony-video" target="_blank">Guardian</a>). Within the same week, <em>another </em>toddler <a data-mce-href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/06/another-young-child-gets-head-caught-between-railings-before-getting-rescued/" href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/06/another-young-child-gets-head-caught-between-railings-before-getting-rescued/">got his head stuck</a> between the railings on the fourth floor of an apartment. Our tractor <a data-mce-href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/06/jerry-rigged-tractor-thingymajig-rolls-to-its-own-beat/" href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/06/jerry-rigged-tractor-thingymajig-rolls-to-its-own-beat/">thingymajig</a> post was linked on <a data-mce-href="http://jalopnik.com/5915476/" href="http://jalopnik.com/5915476/" target="_blank">Jalopnik</a>.</div>
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Quick-hit videos: a <a data-mce-href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/06/this-horse-does-not-give-a-shit-that-you-drive-a-fancy-ferrari/" href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/06/this-horse-does-not-give-a-shit-that-you-drive-a-fancy-ferrari/">horse kicking a Ferrari</a>, Asia's largest indoor stadium <a data-mce-href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/06/asias-largest-indoor-stadium-built-in-2003-now-demolished-video/" href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/06/asias-largest-indoor-stadium-built-in-2003-now-demolished-video/">being demolished</a>, and a <a data-mce-href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/06/take-a-minute-to-enjoy-the-indubitable-cuteness-of-a-dog-nursing-three-kittens/" href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/06/take-a-minute-to-enjoy-the-indubitable-cuteness-of-a-dog-nursing-three-kittens/">dog nursing three kittens</a>. Finally, we'd like to remind you that boys' urine should probably not be used for pharmaceutical purposes, though <a data-mce-href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/06/pharmaceutical-company-in-jiangxi-thinks-collecting-the-urine-of-schoolboys-is-normal/" href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/06/pharmaceutical-company-in-jiangxi-thinks-collecting-the-urine-of-schoolboys-is-normal/">some would disagree</a>.</div>
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Louis CK <a data-mce-href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/06/louis-ck-is-performing-in-beijing-this-sunday/" href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/06/louis-ck-is-performing-in-beijing-this-sunday/">performed in Beijing tonight</a>. Sorry if you missed out on tickets -- we gave you a one- or two-hour window to buy. Predictably, they sold out fast. If you were at the show, I'd love to hear about how it was -- drop me a note at tao@beijingcream.com. Thank you for reading.</div>
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We began the week by announcing the <a data-mce-href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/05/bjc-bar-and-club-awards-the-winners/" href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/05/bjc-bar-and-club-awards-the-winners/">winners</a> to our Bar and Club Awards, then proceeded to <a data-mce-href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/05/the-only-review-of-the-beijinger-awards-party-youre-ever-likely-to-read/" href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/05/the-only-review-of-the-beijinger-awards-party-youre-ever-likely-to-read/">pillory the Beijinger's Bar and Club Awards party</a>. The post has received 21 comments so far, including several from tbj GM Mike Wester. Personally, however, we enjoy the comments on this post, "<a data-mce-href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/05/calling-all-bjc-readers-please-submit-your-story-of-ambiguous-decency/" href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/05/calling-all-bjc-readers-please-submit-your-story-of-ambiguous-decency/">Please Submit Your Story of Ambiguous Decency</a>," much better.</div>
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On Friday evening, Kris Pickett took a <a data-mce-href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/05/watch-protester-at-xidan-pushed-off-bridge-then-taken-away-in-police-van/" href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/05/watch-protester-at-xidan-pushed-off-bridge-then-taken-away-in-police-van/">video of a protester</a> in Xidan being pushed off a pedestrian bridge onto a bouncy tarp, then taken away by police. <a data-mce-href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/05/yet-another-fight-between-american-and-chinese-basketball-teams/" href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/05/yet-another-fight-between-american-and-chinese-basketball-teams/">Another fight</a> between American and Chinese basketball teams broke out that same night, while a white guy <a data-mce-href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/05/stay-classy-white-guy/" href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/05/stay-classy-white-guy/">spat in the face</a> of a Chinese man in Chengdu. Earlier in the week, a Shandong college cafeteria <a data-mce-href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/05/shangdong-school-canteen-serves-whale-meat/" href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/05/shangdong-school-canteen-serves-whale-meat/">served its students</a> whale meat without their knowledge. A 12-year-old from the same province has earned himself the nickname "<a data-mce-href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/05/chinas-messi-watch-this-12-year-old-soccer-prodigy/" href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/05/chinas-messi-watch-this-12-year-old-soccer-prodigy/">China's Messi</a>," and <a data-mce-href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/05/70-year-old-badass-in-kunming-fends-off-demolishers-with-molotov-cocktails/" href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/05/70-year-old-badass-in-kunming-fends-off-demolishers-with-molotov-cocktails/">here's a 70-year-old badass</a> in Yunnan who tosses petrol bombs at those who try to evict him. If you need lighter news, try this <a data-mce-href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/05/this-chicken-raping-puppy-gif-wins/" href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/05/this-chicken-raping-puppy-gif-wins/">chicken-raping dog GIF</a>.</div>
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This "<a data-mce-href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/05/the-mother-of-all-traffic-jams-warning-its-horrifying/" href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/05/the-mother-of-all-traffic-jams-warning-its-horrifying/">Mother of All Traffic Jams</a>" post was linked on the Gawker Network's Jalopnik, while we found out that Henry Breimhurst was responsible for this <a data-mce-href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/05/the-basics-of-driving-in-china-a-diagram/" href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/05/the-basics-of-driving-in-china-a-diagram/">driving-in-China diagram</a>. Valentina Luo's debut post for BJC was about a rumored new political party in China called the <a data-mce-href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/05/new-political-party-mounts-democracy-challenge-to-ccp/" href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/05/new-political-party-mounts-democracy-challenge-to-ccp/">Chinese Scientist Liberal Democratic Party</a>.</div>
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China Ultimate Frisbee has been getting quite the attention recently, on <a data-mce-href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/05/ultimate-frisbee-as-reported-on-china-central-television/" href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/05/ultimate-frisbee-as-reported-on-china-central-television/">CCTV-5</a> and this online <a data-mce-href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/05/watch-hennessys-online-ad-featuring-ultimate-frisbee-players-in-beijing/" href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/05/watch-hennessys-online-ad-featuring-ultimate-frisbee-players-in-beijing/">Hennessy ad</a>. Hong Kong's NOW TV has won the sports-as-war metaphor with its <a data-mce-href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/05/hong-kong-now-tv-euro-2012-ad/" href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/05/hong-kong-now-tv-euro-2012-ad/">Euro 2102 promo</a>. Timed with Bo Guagua's <a data-mce-href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/05/pictures-of-bo-guagua-at-his-harvard-commencement-ceremony/" href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/05/pictures-of-bo-guagua-at-his-harvard-commencement-ceremony/">graduation</a> from Harvard, a guest columnist came by to talk about <a data-mce-href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/05/slate-why-is-harvard-training-next-generation-of-cpc-leaders-why-not/" href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/05/slate-why-is-harvard-training-next-generation-of-cpc-leaders-why-not/">princelings at Harvard</a>. City Weekend <a data-mce-href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/05/city-weekend-readers-choice-awards/" href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/05/city-weekend-readers-choice-awards/">did something</a>.</div>
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Yang Rui says he called Melissa Chan a "<a data-mce-href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/05/global-times-yang-rui-so-is-melissa-chan-a-shrew-or-a-bitch/" href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/05/global-times-yang-rui-so-is-melissa-chan-a-shrew-or-a-bitch/">shrew</a>," not bitch, and Chen Guangcheng is in <a data-mce-href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/05/top-of-the-week-links-hu-xijin-cgc-james-fallows-yang-rui-where-is-chen-guangcheng-right-now/" href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/05/top-of-the-week-links-hu-xijin-cgc-james-fallows-yang-rui-where-is-chen-guangcheng-right-now/">New York</a>. Finally, we'd like to remind everyone that nature can be a bitch sometimes, always <a data-mce-href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/05/when-you-gotta-go/" href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/05/when-you-gotta-go/">calling</a> at the least convenient time.</div>
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Here, again, are <a data-mce-href="http://beijingcream.com/porn-in-china/" href="http://beijingcream.com/porn-in-china/">porn sites that are not blocked in China</a>. Consider that our gift to you, China hands -- for reading.</div>
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</div>The Taohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07647424661870773417noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7911713104950873940.post-43286969198860417102012-05-22T21:31:00.000+08:002012-05-22T21:31:08.713+08:00China Nationals tournament in Beijing on CCTV-5<embed id='v_player_cctv' width='400' height='300' flashvars='videoId=20120522102558&filePath=error&isAutoPlay=true&url=http://sports.cntv.cn/20120522/102558.shtml&tai=sports&configPath=http://sports.cntv.cn/player/config.xml&widgetsConfig=http://js.player.cntv.cn/xml/widgetsConfig/sports.xml&languageConfig=&hour24DataURL=&outsideChannelId=channelBugu&videoCenterId=ddc3050c08d34d238b55eaa8c00b5ec8' allowscriptaccess='always' allowfullscreen='true' menu='false' quality='best' bgcolor='#000000' name='v_player_cctv' src='http://player.cntv.cn/standard/cntvOutSidePlayer.swf?v=0.171.5.8.9.2' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' lk_mediaid='lk_juiceapp_mediaPopup_1257416656250' lk_media='yes'/>The Taohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07647424661870773417noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7911713104950873940.post-20633196852256710402012-04-29T23:59:00.000+08:002012-04-30T00:17:02.853+08:00The Week That Was At Beijing Cream, April 23-29<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The news outlets have been so consumed by Chen that they've totally forgotten about Bo. Just this week, Bo Guagua made his first public statement in the Harvard Crimson, but all we heard was <a data-mce-href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/04/bo-guagua-the-dude-himself-makes-statement-via-harvard-crimson/" href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/04/bo-guagua-the-dude-himself-makes-statement-via-harvard-crimson/">Oxford, Oxford, Oxford</a> (there's a great comment at the end of that post). Then we <a data-mce-href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/04/great-moments-in-photoshop-bo-guagua-edition/" href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/04/great-moments-in-photoshop-bo-guagua-edition/">photoshopped</a> his head onto Barack Obama's body.<br />
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BJC uncovered video of another pedestrian <a data-mce-href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/04/another-pedestrian-falls-through-sidewalk-in-china-this-time-on-video/" href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/04/another-pedestrian-falls-through-sidewalk-in-china-this-time-on-video/">falling through the sidewalk</a> in China, which was immediately copied by traditional media like the Telegraph and reposted under their name. American Mike Sui imitated a bunch of people in <a data-mce-href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/04/american-in-china-imitates-chinese-americans-french-russians-and-japanese/" href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/04/american-in-china-imitates-chinese-americans-french-russians-and-japanese/">this video</a>, which is raking up views by the thousands. Leehom Wang sang "As Time Goes By" at the opening ceremony of the Beijing International Film Festival, but he <a data-mce-href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/04/leehom-wang-flubs-line-at-bjiff-opening-night/" href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/04/leehom-wang-flubs-line-at-bjiff-opening-night/">flubbed a key line</a>.<br />
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We upset some folks by <a data-mce-href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/04/timeout-beijings-food-awards-target-rich-uncle-moneybags/" href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/04/timeout-beijings-food-awards-target-rich-uncle-moneybags/">suggesting</a> Time Out's Food Awards are upscale... though I suspect the offending line, written by reader E, must have been, "I’m surprised that Time Out, a British-owned publication, is so interested in blowing their literary loads all over a bunch of French place"). Natsun, the friend of Jackson, the subject of a controversial "Meet an Expat" column last week, wrote a <a data-mce-href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/04/a-response-to-last-weeks-meet-an-expat-column/" href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/04/a-response-to-last-weeks-meet-an-expat-column/">formal response</a>. A slackline-walker <a data-mce-href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/04/funambulist-crosses-hubei-canyon-without-safety-harness/" href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/04/funambulist-crosses-hubei-canyon-without-safety-harness/">crossed a canyon</a> in Hebei, while a wingsuit-flier <a data-mce-href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/04/wingsuit-daredevil-jokke-sommer-in-hunan-china/" href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/04/wingsuit-daredevil-jokke-sommer-in-hunan-china/">glided</a> over Hunan's <a data-mce-href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/04/in-hunan-99-ways-to-heaven-on-the-highway-to-hell/" href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/04/in-hunan-99-ways-to-heaven-on-the-highway-to-hell/">Highway to Hell</a>. Here's a <a data-mce-href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/04/homemade-electric-soapbox-derby-car-in-rural-china/" href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/04/homemade-electric-soapbox-derby-car-in-rural-china/">homemade electric car</a> built on a farm on the outskirts of Beijing, a city that, in case you've forgotten, is hosting the <a data-mce-href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/04/they-introduced-the-lamborghini-urus-in-beijing-with-dancing-acrobats/" href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/04/they-introduced-the-lamborghini-urus-in-beijing-with-dancing-acrobats/">China Auto Show</a>.</div>
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And finally, <a data-mce-href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/04/victoria-beckham-and-harper-leave-beijings-opposite-house-hotel/" href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/04/victoria-beckham-and-harper-leave-beijings-opposite-house-hotel/">here</a>, again, is Victoria Beckham with Harper Seven at Sanlitun's Opposite Hotel -- a story still without redeeming value.</div>
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</div>The Taohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07647424661870773417noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7911713104950873940.post-67083162087254000762012-04-22T22:46:00.000+08:002012-04-22T22:48:18.756+08:00The Week That Was At Beijing Cream, April 16-22<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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BJC's most-commented post so far was Tuesday's "<a data-mce-href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/04/a-story-about-journalism-or-why-details-matter-ap-editing-error/" href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/04/a-story-about-journalism-or-why-details-matter-ap-editing-error/">A Story About Journalism</a>," in which I wrote about how a small Associated Press editing mistake led to a whole lot of misunderstanding and anger half a world away. This came a day after RFH's excellent <a data-mce-href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/04/salacious-scandalous-and-totally-unsubstantiated-rumors-regarding-bo-xilai/" href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/04/salacious-scandalous-and-totally-unsubstantiated-rumors-regarding-bo-xilai/">Bo Xilai rumor-roundup</a>, which came on the heels of our inaugural "Meet an Expat" column about a Tianjin foreigner who <a data-mce-href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/04/meet-an-expat-a-stateless-teacher-in-tianjin-iq-180/" href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/04/meet-an-expat-a-stateless-teacher-in-tianjin-iq-180/">gave up his American citizenship</a> so he could stay in this country with his Chinese wife and son. (If you haven't seen it, Jackson has posted a long reply on the post.)</div>
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London mayor Boris Johnson is on Sina Weibo, though he's almost as bad at <a data-mce-href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/04/londons-mayor-has-a-verified-sina-weibo-account-and-its-hilarious/" href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/04/londons-mayor-has-a-verified-sina-weibo-account-and-its-hilarious/">Chinese social media</a> as he is at the Western variety. Several months after sweeping Facebook, the Carl Weathers as Kony meme <a data-mce-href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/04/forget-about-kony-2012-in-china-the-carl-weathers-meme-has-officially-arrived/" href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/04/forget-about-kony-2012-in-china-the-carl-weathers-meme-has-officially-arrived/">has reached China</a>. And have you ever tried to picture <a data-mce-href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/04/posted-without-comment-helen-keller-sunglasses/" href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/04/posted-without-comment-helen-keller-sunglasses/">Helen Keller eyewear</a>?</div>
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There was a <a data-mce-href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/04/shanghai-shenxin-and-qingdao-skirmish-on-national-tv/" href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/04/shanghai-shenxin-and-qingdao-skirmish-on-national-tv/">soccer skirmish</a> in Qingdao earlier this week, and hopefully someone cares. <a data-mce-href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/04/a-beautiful-moment-in-auto-sports-spectating-this-chinese-fan/" href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/04/a-beautiful-moment-in-auto-sports-spectating-this-chinese-fan/">This man</a> is the best auto sports fan I've ever seen. <a data-mce-href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/04/of-all-the-dancing-men-on-wangfujing/" href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/04/of-all-the-dancing-men-on-wangfujing/">This</a> is the best dancer on Wangfujing, especially accompanied by that awesome music. <a data-mce-href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/04/crowded-subway-china-vs-japan/" href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/04/crowded-subway-china-vs-japan/">This</a> is the most crowded subway ever, in Japan. And <a data-mce-href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/04/real-life-iron-man-in-beijing-the-next-movie-is-coming-to-china-too/" href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/04/real-life-iron-man-in-beijing-the-next-movie-is-coming-to-china-too/">this</a> might be the best homemade Iron Man suit you'll see in China.</div>
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</div>The Taohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07647424661870773417noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7911713104950873940.post-85492768180374866332012-04-15T23:59:00.002+08:002012-04-17T13:39:10.237+08:00The Week That Was At Beijing Cream, April 9-15<p style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><img title="A BJC exclusive" src="http://beijingcream.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Logo-dark-blue-red-box-final-150x150.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="150" style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; " /></p><p style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><strong><em>April 9 - April 15</em></strong></p><p style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; text-align: -webkit-auto; ">Did we all survive Thursday's <a href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/04/well-theyve-done-it-china-has-nuked-the-internet/">Internet Apocalypse</a>? It happened thanks to the <a href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/04/bo-xilai-is-in-big-trouble/">biggest bombshell</a> Xinhua has dropped in years -- no, we're not talking about <a href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/04/xinhua-loves-those-sexy-teen-models/">sexy pics of teen models</a> -- that Bo Xilai has been ousted from his Party's posts and his wife, Gu Kailai, and aide are being investigated for <em>murder </em>(though Bo, interestingly, is still being referred to as "<a href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/04/close-reading-xinhuas-statement-on-comrade-bo-xilai/">comrade</a>”<a href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/04/close-reading-xinhuas-statement-on-comrade-bo-xilai/"></a>). China ended up <a href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/04/on-bxl-is-a-phrase-you-cannot-text-in-beijing-right-now/">censoring text messages</a>, too. (Where's Anonymous and its "<a href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/04/anonymous-gfw-will-be-dead-soon/">death-to-GFW</a>" proclamations when you need them?) I ended up on <a href="http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/worldservice/whys/whys_20120411-1234a.mp3">BBC Radio</a> to discuss these events.<strong><em><img title="More..." src="http://beijingcream.com/wp-includes/js/tinymce/plugins/wordpress/img/trans.gif" alt="" style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; " /></em></strong></p><p style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; text-align: -webkit-auto; ">We still <a href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/04/via-ministry-of-censorships-biggest-bitch-gov-tells-microblogs-to-censor/">hate censorship</a> around these parts. Very, very much.</p><p style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; text-align: -webkit-auto; ">A lot of sensible websites got trolled by a <a href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/04/today-in-shitty-journalism-titanic-3d-breast-fake-quote-troll/">fake quote</a>, and we're still waiting for them to issue corrections. Here are pictures of Beijing <a href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/04/beijing-emptied-out-photos-from-lucie-simon/">emptied out</a>. And this website has a new No. 2 post in terms of all-time views (will it catch <a href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/03/cba-finals-game-1-dirty-foul-followed-by-cursing/">No. 1</a>?): meet <a href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/04/purple-panda-scares-bejesus-out-of-californian-children/">Purple Panda</a>!</p><p style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; text-align: -webkit-auto; ">Two deaths of note in this past week: <a href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/04/revisiting-mike-wallaces-interview-with-jiang-zemin-explaining-power-dilutes-it/">Mike Wallace</a> and <a href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/04/fang-lizhi-obit/">Fang Lizhi</a> (check out TAR Nation's <a href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/04/to-serve-people-a-global-times-special/">takedown</a> of Global Times's attempted takedown of Fang). <a href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/04/now-thats-how-to-not-do-advertising-a-fresh-terrible-take-on-a-classic-sign/">This</a> is not how to put a fresh take on advertising -- or is it? Homemade firearms in China look like <a href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/04/what-homemade-firearms-in-china-look-like-crossbows/">crossbows</a>, and we'd like to remind you that <a href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/04/global-times-has-topped-itself-with-latest-headline-baidu-is-not-a-condom-rules-court/">Baidu is a not a condom</a>.</p><p style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; text-align: -webkit-auto; ">Finally, here's how Bo's <a href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/04/bo-xilais-family-and-associates-as-depicted-in-media/">family and associates</a> are being depicted in the media, and that proposed Stephon Marbury <a href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/04/the-proposed-stephon-marbury-statue-in-beijing-is-ugly/">statue</a> remains ugly.</p><p style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><span style="color: rgb(53, 53, 53); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 22px; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">|</span><a href="http://beijingcream.com/week-in-review/" style="color: rgb(0, 102, 187); text-decoration: none; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 22px; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Week in Review Archives</a><span style="color: rgb(53, 53, 53); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 22px; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">|</span></p>The Taohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07647424661870773417noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7911713104950873940.post-47489214405765664452012-04-08T23:59:00.002+08:002012-04-17T13:39:28.968+08:00The Week That Was At Beijing Cream, April 2-8<p style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><img title="A BJC exclusive" src="http://beijingcream.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Logo-dark-blue-red-box-final-150x150.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="150" style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; " /></p><p style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><strong><em>April 2 - April 8</em></strong></p><p style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; text-align: -webkit-auto; ">If you're not excited, you should be: <a href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/04/the-impending-return-of-alessandro/">Alessandro is coming back</a>! Meanwhile, BJC continues to roll out original content, on Tuesday with Jon Pastuszek's retrospective on <a href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/04/stephon-marbury-has-silenced-his-critics-this-year-maybe-for-good/">Stephon Marbury</a>, and on Thursday with <a href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/04/dashwoods-diary-dispatches-from-peking/">Sir Charles Dashwood</a>, as decrypted by RFH.</p><p style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; text-align: -webkit-auto; ">Jason Chu is the latest to join our "Chillax" feature with the video for "<a href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/04/chillax-with-jason-chus-love-letter-to-beijing/">City of the North</a>," part of his <em>Goodbye, Beijing</em> EP. We relived the Ducks' championship two weeks ago with a collection of <a href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/04/reliving-championships-never-gets-old/">videos</a>, and let ourselves get taken back to our Nintendo-playing youth in <a href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/04/ikea-china-commercials-music-takes-us-back-to-our-nintendo-playing-childhoods/">this IKEA commercial</a>, as uncovered by Mr. Smith.</p><p style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; text-align: -webkit-auto; ">A toddler gets pulled out of a Yunnan well <a href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/04/well-rescue-in-yunnan-involving-iphone/">here</a>, while a toddler is seen in a funny posture at Raffles Mall <a href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/04/so-i-walk-into-raffles-mall-this-afternoon/">here</a>. Beijingers: <a href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/04/a-horrifying-tale-of-ground-collapsing-underneath-woman-plunging-her-into-boiling-water/">watch where you walk</a>, lest you want to be boiled alive, and for the love of civility, expats, Scott Grow tells you to not <a href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/04/replacement-drake-a-story-of-expats-behaving-badly/">piss in the streets</a>.</p><p style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; text-align: -webkit-auto; ">As of this moment, China Daily follows the likes of <a href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/04/who-is-china-daily-following-twitter-tease-edition/">Tweet Flirt</a> and <a href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/03/who-is-china-daily-following-what-the-fck-indeed/">Ivanka</a>, while Global Times follows the <a href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/04/who-is-global-times-following-fbi-pressoffice/">FBI Press Office</a>.</p><p style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; text-align: -webkit-auto; ">|<a href="http://beijingcream.com/week-in-review/">Week in Review Archives</a>|</p>The Taohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07647424661870773417noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7911713104950873940.post-56392166611984405192012-04-06T21:16:00.003+08:002012-04-06T21:19:28.980+08:00Alessandro... he's coming back!Just click on the below tag "Ask Alessandro" if you have no idea what this means. As <a href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/04/the-impending-return-of-alessandro/">announced</a> this afternoon on Beijing Cream, Alessandro -- the man, the myth, the legend -- will be making a joint appearance on BJC and China Daily Show next week:<div><br /></div><blockquote>Like many continental men, Alessandro will often greet other males with a kiss on each cheek, but he rarely relishes it<br />The sunglasses? They’re Fottore-Bans<br />Did you know? Prickly pears are 30% less prickly in Alessandro’s presence<br />If Alessandro was an interrogator, your crotch would talk</blockquote><br />Alessandro is now accepting questions. Please send to cds@chinadailyshow.com.The Taohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07647424661870773417noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7911713104950873940.post-18464765407223064522012-04-01T19:50:00.000+08:002012-04-04T19:52:16.227+08:00The Week That Was At Beijing Cream, March 26 - April 1<p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; color: rgb(53, 53, 53); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><img title="A BJC exclusive" src="http://beijingcream.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Logo-dark-blue-red-box-final-150x150.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="150" style="margin-bottom: 0.5em; " /></p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; color: rgb(53, 53, 53); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">RFH wrote the most-read post of the week, “<a href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/03/corruption-murder-and-intrigue-in-the-middle-kingdom/" style="color: rgb(0, 102, 187); text-decoration: none; ">Corruption, Murder, And Intrigue In The Middle Kingdom</a>.” Royston Chan of Reuters wrote the most disgusting China story of the year, about<a href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/03/most-disgusting-china-story-of-the-year/" style="color: rgb(0, 102, 187); text-decoration: none; ">urine-soaked eggs</a>. Kurt De Raedemaeker, a Flemish art dealer who’s been under house arrest in Beijing since 2008, <a href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/03/flemish-art-dealer-dies-under-house-arrest-in-beijing/" style="color: rgb(0, 102, 187); text-decoration: none; ">died of a heart attack</a>.</p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; color: rgb(53, 53, 53); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Have you heard? The taxi <a href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/03/breaking-beijing-taxi-fuel-surcharge-increases-to-3-yuan-effective-tomorrow/" style="color: rgb(0, 102, 187); text-decoration: none; ">fuel surcharge</a> is now 3 yuan. Also, Beijing is home to both the men’s and women’s <a href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/03/in-beijing-the-new-champion-of-chinese-basketball/" style="color: rgb(0, 102, 187); text-decoration: none; ">champions of Chinese basketball</a>. You can watch the Ducks’ gripping Game 5 series-clinching win in its entirety — plus other postgame videos – <a href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/03/cba-finals-beijings-series-clinching-win-in-its-entirety/" style="color: rgb(0, 102, 187); text-decoration: none; ">here</a>. It almost makes one forget how classless the Guangdong Southern Tigers were, <a href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/03/guangdong-boss-liu-hongjiang-employs-human-flesh-engine-hurts-innocent-beijing-woman/" style="color: rgb(0, 102, 187); text-decoration: none; ">starting with its boss</a>, Liu Hongjiang, who inexplicably ordered a human flesh engine search on a Beijing fan that ended up hurting an innocent woman.</p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; color: rgb(53, 53, 53); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">BJC’s newest column, <a href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/04/to-serve-people-bjcs-new-weekly-column-in-which-chinese-media-is-taken-to-the-stocks/" style="color: rgb(0, 102, 187); text-decoration: none; ">To Serve People</a>, debuted with guns blazing. The lades of Beijing cream talked about <a href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/03/the-ladies-of-beijing-cream-talk-about-menstruation/" style="color: rgb(0, 102, 187); text-decoration: none; ">menstruation</a>. And this Kickstarter project — <a href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/03/a-kickstarter-project-worth-your-attention-chinafornia/" style="color: rgb(0, 102, 187); text-decoration: none; ">Chinafornia</a> — is worth supporting.</p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; color: rgb(53, 53, 53); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Sina and QQ Weibo were <a href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/03/sina-weibo-commenting-freeze-coup-rumors/" style="color: rgb(0, 102, 187); text-decoration: none; ">ordered</a> to shut down their commenting feature for three days for not censoring their users more closely. Meanwhile, China’s crusade against “illicit content” on the Internet has led to its newest campaign, <a href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/04/spring-breeze-is-chinas-latest-cleverly-titled-campaign-against-the-internet/" style="color: rgb(0, 102, 187); text-decoration: none; ">Spring Breeze</a>.</p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; color: rgb(53, 53, 53); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Special shout-out to <a href="https://twitter.com/#!/niubi" style="color: rgb(0, 102, 187); text-decoration: none; ">@niubi</a> of <a href="http://www.sinocism.com/" style="color: rgb(0, 102, 187); text-decoration: none; ">Sinocism</a>, who had <a href="https://twitter.com/#!/niubi/status/186249093541142528" style="color: rgb(0, 102, 187); text-decoration: none; ">nice things</a> to say about this site, and Shanghaiist for <a href="http://shanghaiist.com/2012/03/29/watch_accidents_that_should_never_h.php" style="color: rgb(0, 102, 187); text-decoration: none; ">linking</a> to our <a href="http://beijingcream.com/traffic-light/" style="color: rgb(0, 102, 187); text-decoration: none; ">Traffic Light</a> series. Now if only we could extend our compliments to<a href="http://beijingcream.com/tag/who-is-china-daily-following/" style="color: rgb(0, 102, 187); text-decoration: none; ">China Daily</a>, who is still not following <a href="https://twitter.com/#!/beijingcream" style="color: rgb(0, 102, 187); text-decoration: none; ">@beijingcream</a>.</p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; color: rgb(53, 53, 53); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">|<a href="http://beijingcream.com/week-in-review/" style="color: rgb(0, 102, 187); text-decoration: none; ">Week in Review Archives</a>|</p>The Taohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07647424661870773417noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7911713104950873940.post-32469187899677493832012-03-25T23:59:00.000+08:002012-03-26T15:23:23.168+08:00The Week That Was At Beijing Cream, March 19-25<p style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><img title="A BJC exclusive" src="http://beijingcream.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Logo-dark-blue-red-box-final-150x150.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="150" src="http://beijingcream.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Logo-dark-blue-red-box-final-150x150.jpg" style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; " /></p><p style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; text-align: -webkit-auto; ">The CBA took the limelight as Game 1 of the finals opened at Wukesong on Wednesday. Our post about national-team player Zhou Peng <a href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/03/cba-finals-game-1-dirty-foul-followed-by-cursing/" href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/03/cba-finals-game-1-dirty-foul-followed-by-cursing/">intentionally fouling</a> Stephon Marbury -- followed by Su Wei cursing him out -- is now the most viewed post in BJC history by a huge margin, thanks to Deadspin. The Youku video then got <a href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/03/did-youku-just-censor-bjcs-marbury-video/" href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/03/did-youku-just-censor-bjcs-marbury-video/">censored</a>. Earlier in the week, we posted two final thoughts on Beijing's win vs. Shanxi: Marbury's <a href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/03/beijing-fans-chant-mvp-at-emotional-marbury-game-5/" href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/03/beijing-fans-chant-mvp-at-emotional-marbury-game-5/">tears of joy</a>, and <a href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/03/two-dunks-in-particular-made-sundays-beijing-shanxi-game-kind-of-awesome-also-marburys-tears-of-joy/" href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/03/two-dunks-in-particular-made-sundays-beijing-shanxi-game-kind-of-awesome-also-marburys-tears-of-joy/">two monstrous dunks</a>.</p><p style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; text-align: -webkit-auto; ">We were the first English-language China blog to post about <a href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/03/ever-wonder-what-kind-of-pictures-are-in-a-chinese-gangsters-phone/" href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/03/ever-wonder-what-kind-of-pictures-are-in-a-chinese-gangsters-phone/">this Chinese gangster</a>'s cell phone pictures, which then went viral. I wondered about <a href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/03/hondas-commercial-featuring-foreign-language-couple-psst-its-chinese/" href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/03/hondas-commercial-featuring-foreign-language-couple-psst-its-chinese/">the meaning of "racism</a>," RFH offered a <a href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/03/revving-the-rumor-engine-and-a-defense-of-global-times/" href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/03/revving-the-rumor-engine-and-a-defense-of-global-times/">defense of Global Times</a>, while Eric Fish of Sinostand mourned the demise of GT's <a href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/03/twitter-trackback-for-global-times-we-hardly-knew-ya/" href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/03/twitter-trackback-for-global-times-we-hardly-knew-ya/">Twitter feedback</a> function. We all effectively moved on from Mike Daisey -- everyone's <a href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/03/the-heavy-hitters-have-come-out-against-mike-daisey/" href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/03/the-heavy-hitters-have-come-out-against-mike-daisey/">had their say</a>, right?</p><p style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; text-align: -webkit-auto; ">You should check out Evan Chen's<a href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/03/introducing-evan-chens-bit-of-madness-sanity-madness/" href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/03/introducing-evan-chens-bit-of-madness-sanity-madness/"> YouTube channel</a>, this woman's <a href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/03/poetic-prose-on-chinese-silkworms-specifically-the-torture-of/" href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/03/poetic-prose-on-chinese-silkworms-specifically-the-torture-of/">impassioned plea</a> for silkworms, and -- if this is your cup of tea -- <a href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/03/miss-bikini-international-2012-promo/" href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/03/miss-bikini-international-2012-promo/">hot women in bikinis</a>.</p><p style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; text-align: -webkit-auto; ">We began a new feature called "<a href="http://beijingcream.com/tag/chillax/" href="http://beijingcream.com/tag/chillax/">Chillax</a>," featuring a <a href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/03/beijing-tribute-video-jake-fromer/" href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/03/beijing-tribute-video-jake-fromer/">Beijing tribute video</a> and <a href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/03/chillax-with-dj-wordy-and-dj-soulspeak/" href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/03/chillax-with-dj-wordy-and-dj-soulspeak/">DJ Wordy and DJ SoulSpeak</a>. (There are some back-labeled entries as well.) Also, every Wednesday will now be "Meme Wednesday": not for the <a href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/03/meme-wednesday-the-average-asian-aging-process/" href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/03/meme-wednesday-the-average-asian-aging-process/">easily offended</a>.</p><p style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; text-align: -webkit-auto; ">|<a href="http://beijingcream.com/week-in-review/" href="http://beijingcream.com/week-in-review/">Week in Review Archives</a>|</p>The Taohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07647424661870773417noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7911713104950873940.post-48998636358845202342012-03-19T23:27:00.002+08:002012-03-19T23:30:29.156+08:00The Week That Was At Beijing CreamThis site will now be used almost exclusively to promote <a href="http://beijingcream.com" style="font-weight: normal; ">Beijing Cream</a>, unless I have something personal I want to say that is China-related and doesn't belong on BJC. Hope that's okay.<div style="font-weight: normal; "><br /></div><div><b>THE SITUATION IS EXCELLENT</b><br /><div style="font-weight: normal; "><p style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><img title="A BJC exclusive" src="http://beijingcream.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Logo-dark-blue-red-box-final-150x150.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="150" src="http://beijingcream.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Logo-dark-blue-red-box-final-150x150.jpg" style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; " /></p><p style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><strong><em>March 12 - March 18</em></strong></p><p style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; text-align: -webkit-auto; ">This past week yielded the Nos. 1, 2 and 3 most-viewed posts in BJC history: a kid <a href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/03/this-could-be-the-dirtiest-soccer-foul-of-the-year-and-it-happened-in-a-u12-game-in-hong-kong/" href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/03/this-could-be-the-dirtiest-soccer-foul-of-the-year-and-it-happened-in-a-u12-game-in-hong-kong/">kicking another in the face</a> on a soccer pitch; Stephon Marbury accused of <a href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/03/shanxi-beijing-stephon-marbury-cba-game-4-fallout/" href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/03/shanxi-beijing-stephon-marbury-cba-game-4-fallout/">hitting a fan</a> after Game 4 in the CBA semifinals in Shanxi (eventually linked by the New York Times' <a href="http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/14/differing-accounts-of-another-basketball-brouhaha-in-china/" href="http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/14/differing-accounts-of-another-basketball-brouhaha-in-china/">The Lede</a> blog); and a <a href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/03/bo-xilai-be-well-and-godspeed/" href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/03/bo-xilai-be-well-and-godspeed/">comic strip</a> on the day of Bo Xilai's ouster as Chongqing Party Secretary (h/t Valentina Luo).</p><p style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; text-align: -webkit-auto; ">Mike Daisey <a href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/03/this-american-life-retraction-of-mike-daisey-foxconn-story/#more-1587" href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/03/this-american-life-retraction-of-mike-daisey-foxconn-story/#more-1587">should apologize</a> to Ira Glass, Stephen Fry, Tim Worstall, David Pogue and everyone who has bought a ticket to his show, though he probably won't. A Chinese guy's <a href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/03/adele-rolling-in-the-deep-on-chinese-zither-guzheng/" href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/03/adele-rolling-in-the-deep-on-chinese-zither-guzheng/">cover</a> of Adele's "Rolling in the Deep" is quite good. <a href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/03/mao-xinyu-the-very-model-of-a-modern-major-general/" href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/03/mao-xinyu-the-very-model-of-a-modern-major-general/">Sing</a> with me now: <em>the very model of a modern major general</em>.</p><p style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; text-align: -webkit-auto; ">Welcome to Tyler Roney, Beijing Cream's newest contributor, who <a href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/03/why-you-should-root-against-shanghai-shenhua-fc-anelka/" href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/03/why-you-should-root-against-shanghai-shenhua-fc-anelka/">previewed</a> Frenchman Nicolas Anelka's debut in the Chinese Super League. After the game, I compiled a video of <a href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/03/every-anelka-touch-in-his-chinese-super-league-debut-and-every-goal-from-the-national-derby/" href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/03/every-anelka-touch-in-his-chinese-super-league-debut-and-every-goal-from-the-national-derby/">all his touches</a> on the ball, plus the game's five goals -- three for Guoan, of course. We don't really hate Shanghai, but it's sure fun <a href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/03/how-do-i-hate-shanghai-let-me-count-the-ways/" href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/03/how-do-i-hate-shanghai-let-me-count-the-ways/">to do so</a>. Speaking of fun, <a href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/03/this-is-either-the-worst-or-best-pole-dance-ever/" href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/03/this-is-either-the-worst-or-best-pole-dance-ever/">this</a> woman almost looks she's enjoying her pole dance on the Shanghai subway. Almost.</p><p style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; text-align: -webkit-auto; ">As of this writing, @DickAmateur is <a href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/03/dick-amateur-follows-china-daily-and-beijing-cream/" href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/03/dick-amateur-follows-china-daily-and-beijing-cream/">following</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/#!/beijingcream" href="https://twitter.com/#!/beijingcream">@beijingcream</a>, but China Daily is not.</p><p style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; text-align: -webkit-auto; ">|<a href="http://beijingcream.com/week-in-review/" href="http://beijingcream.com/week-in-review/">Week in Review Archives</a>|</p></div></div>The Taohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07647424661870773417noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7911713104950873940.post-769613359772795732012-02-27T23:00:00.000+08:002012-02-27T23:00:00.680+08:00A Beijing Cream Special: An Evening Of Heroic Fails: The Best Of The Worst From The 2012 CBA All-Star GameVia <a href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/02/basketball-is-hard-the-very-worst-from-the-cbas-approximation-of-its-very-best/">Beijing Cream</a>:<div><br /><object width="420" height="315"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/GoBzSwKoIRU?version=3&hl=en_US"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/GoBzSwKoIRU?version=3&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="420" height="315" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed></object></div>The Taohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07647424661870773417noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7911713104950873940.post-89944561163096677622012-02-26T12:00:00.000+08:002012-02-26T12:00:00.334+08:00Just a reminder: all our efforts are here<a href="http://beijingcream.com">Beijing Cream</a>.The Taohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07647424661870773417noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7911713104950873940.post-12704917246254209732012-02-25T19:32:00.003+08:002012-02-25T19:34:48.481+08:00Wow that's a lot of red<span >I just check out China Now Magazine and feel like I got punched in the eyeballs.</span><div><span ><br /></span></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg06qMzmMlg3e9nUjVReUPhtXcDqq3jh8xotBBBIM5ucYEYHl-ZbI8bVSML3K0_1ifj9YtzxnTl23T9dfuhdB9jpsp559aViB0FFM5elOwhLjlTFTVWxDHJAAfqhFT4EjTS0fO9kp6TElo/s1600/China+Now+Magazine.png"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg06qMzmMlg3e9nUjVReUPhtXcDqq3jh8xotBBBIM5ucYEYHl-ZbI8bVSML3K0_1ifj9YtzxnTl23T9dfuhdB9jpsp559aViB0FFM5elOwhLjlTFTVWxDHJAAfqhFT4EjTS0fO9kp6TElo/s400/China+Now+Magazine.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5713035260424494178" style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 218px; " /></a></div><div><span ><br /></span></div><div><span ><a href="http://chinanowmag.com/">Here</a> if you have the necessary eye equipment on.</span></div>The Taohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07647424661870773417noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7911713104950873940.post-85059066468788584102012-02-23T14:54:00.002+08:002012-02-23T14:56:42.556+08:00Time Out Beijing featured our quiz today<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCyEhsZ3Q0z25OO6_IKDagRAEK4KIq3T9R2obOXtHiOmC6lu5M6l3W8hDq60CzLVxHHmH_Lo31gbji_o6dVQ8uw7vFEuiMPttDgJ_NxTdDg9A5lK8vro40hyRfNakngvgZJaSlWRLPTtA/s1600/Time+Out+trivia+picture.jpeg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 247px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCyEhsZ3Q0z25OO6_IKDagRAEK4KIq3T9R2obOXtHiOmC6lu5M6l3W8hDq60CzLVxHHmH_Lo31gbji_o6dVQ8uw7vFEuiMPttDgJ_NxTdDg9A5lK8vro40hyRfNakngvgZJaSlWRLPTtA/s400/Time+Out+trivia+picture.jpeg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5712221375340882402" /></a><br /><div><br /></div><a href="http://www.timeoutbeijing.com/features/Feature/14666/Pub-quizzes.html">An excerpt</a>:<div><br /></div><div><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, SunSans-Regular, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><blockquote>This increasingly popular quiz is, unsurprisingly given the restaurant’s clientele, quite heavily American-biased, although enough questions based on China and a few other countries are thrown in to mean that non-Americans needn’t completely sink. The popularity of the quiz does mean that arriving early is a must, and if you’re clever you’ll be there soon enough to order a giant pizza and salads to share between you – it’s extremely unlikely that you will under order.</blockquote></span></div><div><br /></div><div>All publicity is good. Thanks to Time Out.</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://www.thebeijinger.com/directory/The-Kros-Nest">Kro's Nest Trivia</a>, 35 Xiao Yun Lu, every Thurday -- 8:15 pm.</div>The Taohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07647424661870773417noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7911713104950873940.post-52505714800475839612012-02-21T11:45:00.004+08:002012-02-21T11:54:32.608+08:00The best English-language CBA preview in the worldJon Pastuszek of NiuBBall was gracious enough to offer Beijing Cream a <a href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/02/cba-playoffs-preview/">CBA playoffs preview</a>, which is what you should read if you're interested in Chinese basketball. <div><br /></div><div>Hopefully the postseason will feature a better brand of roundball than this display from the All-Star game:<div><br /></div><div><object width="420" height="315"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Qr7K7DOAZns?version=3&hl=en_US"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Qr7K7DOAZns?version=3&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="420" height="315" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed></object><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>I originally made the above video with Hanggai's "Five Heroes," which got promptly taken down on YouTube. The original appears on <a href="http://deadspin.com/5886561/the-cba-all+star-game-featured-the-worst-sequence-of-professional-basketball-ever">Deadspin</a>.</div></div>The Taohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07647424661870773417noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7911713104950873940.post-62225443988765502112012-02-21T02:32:00.004+08:002012-02-21T02:37:41.654+08:00It's begun<a href="http://beijingcream.com/">Beijing Cream</a> got linked to by <a href="http://deadspin.com/5886561/the-cba-all+star-game-featured-the-worst-sequence-of-professional-basketball-ever">Deadspin</a> today. Wait, you ask. Beijing Cream? <div><br /></div><div>Yes. You should go check it out. It's going to be great.</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://beijingcream.com/"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPyPeyH8K3vyLQwdkITfY0rijQzVEdrgQGP0L3qjPO65Uh5ZhARPDUX-4xfh1D4zWuJNWJHDa31vGdGE6swpDkNNwHdigTSkJ7vijEUaK59wyfWKLGBzGvLmIXCFEpWVxSOQ4oBHUP-Iw/s200/BJC+LOGO.jpeg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5711288299472834418" style="cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 200px; " /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://beijingcream.com"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrjzPcpMiZGk_dnDxdhoz1c01bZazGPlyzeplbnMZdRHXG5tRj1DIMSFf2bYHJj9koMpwt-WuRnRXIMADg48Ov0c1pXmeqx2hn-OadSWUPRKK_aRlyDc9krjlov2-YBvI1N1q8CvnXMkU/s200/BJC+LOGO2.jpeg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5711288301237181458" style="cursor: pointer; width: 197px; height: 200px; " /></a></div><div><a href="http://beijingcream.com"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEMxohvH0U0DI7tnq6O2lHOljx2eOZ5NhW2CBieI_iYTi7zR81q-8awKuAoIwPudGdDi_bIgt36EvFZcC0WCAJ2E6BRGQ19L-_OEQV0ZhYwYGA4REqQ9pI70ijEaIZsflFfzVxDbFYu88/s200/Logo+dark-blue-red-box+final.jpeg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5711288299864934002" style="cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 199px; " /></a></div><div><br /></div>The Taohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07647424661870773417noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7911713104950873940.post-29483790759552783932012-02-20T12:44:00.005+08:002012-02-20T12:51:52.665+08:00James Fallows on Jeremy Lin, in which he links to my Stephon Marbury video from 2010I'm of the opinion that James Fallows is still one of the best China correspondents out there, even though he's been off the China beat for a while (I might be biased -- he does, after all, have his own tag on this blog). <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2012/02/jeremy-lins-secret-its-not-that-hes-asian/253154/">This</a> comes slightly belated (from last Wednesday):<blockquote><br />But let's go to the videos! It happens that there is a test case available: the millions of actual Asian people who play basketball -- it's very popular throughout the region -- and the thousands who have played in professional or semi-pro leagues in China itself. These are real living-in-Asia Asians, without the diluting effect the immigrant experience might have brought to their "philosophical heritage." Overall do they play ball in a way the sociologists might predict?<br /><br />Unt-uh. Here's one video, of the Dongguan Leopards playing at Shanxi Zhongyu, in a Chinese league. This features Stephon Marbury playing for Shanxi, one of a steady trickle of NBA stars who extend their careers with a contract in China. The first minute or so is the local equivalent of dancing Laker-girls. Some of the rest features crowd agitation, yelling at refs, general tumult, and some basketball. Virtually none of it fits with treatises on Asian "philosophical heritage" -- even though nearly every person you see on screen (apart from Marbury and a few other foreign players) is theoretically part of this tradition. </blockquote><br />Here's the video from <a href="http://heartofbeijing.blogspot.com/2010/01/live-from-binhe-sports-stadium-in.html">a couple years back</a>:<div><br /></div><object width="420" height="315"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/_g2seBh-P_U?version=3&hl=en_US"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/_g2seBh-P_U?version=3&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="420" height="315" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed></object><br /><br />Fallows then found himself in an email spat with the Hidden Harmonies blog's melektaus, who -- I think it's safe to say -- <a href="http://blog.hiddenharmonies.org/2012/02/the-kind-of-trash-were-dealing-with/">isn't a fan</a>.The Taohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07647424661870773417noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7911713104950873940.post-13896832069800675942012-02-19T23:59:00.000+08:002012-02-20T01:23:01.720+08:00Is the person in this video Japanese?The one getting his ass kicked by the chalkboard figure. Anyone know?<div style="font-style: normal; "><br /></div><div style="font-style: normal; "><object width="450" height="259"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/RSVBrS7VLqQ?version=3&hl=en_US"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/RSVBrS7VLqQ?version=3&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="450" height="259" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed></object></div><div><i>Via <a href="http://beijingcream.com/2012/02/a-chinese-stop-animation-video/">Beijing Cream</a></i></div>The Taohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07647424661870773417noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7911713104950873940.post-51889505257343971782012-02-17T14:21:00.003+08:002012-02-17T14:23:27.386+08:00Something nears an end; something nears a beginningVery soon we will be launching a new website that you will want to look at. For the time being, please excuse the sporadic postings here. It's the beginning of a phase-out in favor of this new thing.The Taohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07647424661870773417noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7911713104950873940.post-30758954321500038892012-02-15T11:19:00.004+08:002012-02-15T11:24:22.806+08:00Here's video of Jeremy Lin's game-winnerWe should point out he had 8 turnovers in the Knicks' <a href="http://espn.go.com/newyork/nba/recap?gameId=320214028">90-87</a> win over the Raptors in Toronto, but he also tallied 27 points and 11 assists. His last three points are shown below.<div><br /></div><div><object width="500" height="284"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/xv2bl2bXRGs?version=3&hl=en_US"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/xv2bl2bXRGs?version=3&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="500" height="284" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed></object></div><br />The Knicks, incredibly, are now 14-15, after standing at 8-15 two weeks ago.<br /><div><br /></div><div>Comment of the moment, from <a href="http://espn.go.com/blog/new-york/knicks/post/_/id/11722/rapid-reaction-knicks-raptors">this</a> ESPN thread:<div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPK4KEVFig64OVKZvCgjnRnhAcWgW98rXbsD7GNsmcOmZ-tS_wZcqjsB6ERiGIC9VkbmKIe4mvioiB8Ga2v9ID7iwXp89ESZyk4wAwbGBV_ooAzOI2fp3xYXlrmlfnmQcOQJAvTLnXmdA/s1600/Jeremy+Lin+comment.png"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPK4KEVFig64OVKZvCgjnRnhAcWgW98rXbsD7GNsmcOmZ-tS_wZcqjsB6ERiGIC9VkbmKIe4mvioiB8Ga2v9ID7iwXp89ESZyk4wAwbGBV_ooAzOI2fp3xYXlrmlfnmQcOQJAvTLnXmdA/s400/Jeremy+Lin+comment.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5709197485897609954" style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 280px; " /></a></div></div>The Taohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07647424661870773417noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7911713104950873940.post-58277933974242835062012-02-15T10:53:00.002+08:002012-02-15T11:25:07.276+08:00Well, this is going a bit overboard<span style="font-style: normal; ">He's now leading his team from double-digit deficits and hitting three-pointers with less a second remaining to give his team the win, to the </span><i>approval of the opposing team's fans</i>.<div><br /></div><div>Oh, and this:</div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzKZ8eF4oXgbvRF2Rnk8UUlvy-GQZaSpzCC3PZvId6D2NlOzk40G-FkpdWqvGkVK1oxWA1muwkZTOlzrvs000jAah-6lnOZwoTa2XkO9eOhfX6Aq8VKkgEtRrZvGtyAtu4InS1jE6Gp0g/s1600/Happy+Valintine%2527s+Day.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzKZ8eF4oXgbvRF2Rnk8UUlvy-GQZaSpzCC3PZvId6D2NlOzk40G-FkpdWqvGkVK1oxWA1muwkZTOlzrvs000jAah-6lnOZwoTa2XkO9eOhfX6Aq8VKkgEtRrZvGtyAtu4InS1jE6Gp0g/s400/Happy+Valintine%2527s+Day.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5709190491882748146" style="cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px; " /></a></div><div><i>H/T: Maggie Rauch</i></div>The Taohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07647424661870773417noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7911713104950873940.post-4903249910792865862012-02-15T01:38:00.003+08:002012-02-15T10:55:54.240+08:00Be my VaLINtineMSG Network just ran an ad that said that, according to Maggie Rauch, who may have been the first person in the world to see the ad in New York and then tell a friend in Beijing, who then told me.<div style="font-style: normal; "><br /></div><div style="font-style: normal; ">Screenshot of the ad is not yet online. This post will be updated when it is.</div><div style="font-style: normal; "><br /></div><div><i>CORRECTION, 1:49 am:</i> It may have been "Happy VaLINtine's Day." Something like that. Still waiting on the picture.</div><div><br /></div><div>UPDATE: <a href="http://heartofbeijing.blogspot.com/2012/02/well-this-is-going-bit-overboard.html">Here</a>.</div>The Taohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07647424661870773417noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7911713104950873940.post-87691461731925646732012-02-14T16:13:00.001+08:002012-02-14T16:15:01.647+08:00"Lin + Intifada = Lintifada!"<span style="font-style: normal; ">The <a href="http://linwords.com/generator.php">Jeremy Lin Word Generator</a>, presented in all its glory. </span><i>H/T Rob Hogg.</i>The Taohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07647424661870773417noreply@blogger.com0