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- The Chinese In America Will Take Pictures Of Food, They’ll Take The Shit Out Of It
- ‘The Largest Migration In History: China’s Migrant Workers’: The Economist
- 70-Year-Old Badass In Kunming Fends Off Demolishers With Molotov Cocktails
- The Dalai Lama Calculation
- Cannibal serial killer arrested in Yunnan
- Saturday Night Musical Outro: Ashtar Command – China
- Stay Classy, White Guy
| The Chinese In America Will Take Pictures Of Food, They’ll Take The Shit Out Of It Posted: 26 May 2012 06:00 PM PDT
The Chinese elsewhere will do that too. As will I. And other Asians. They don't have to be Asians though. Basically, everybody everywhere loves taking pictures of food. Ah, just go to the damn site already. (H/T Alicia) |
| ‘The Largest Migration In History: China’s Migrant Workers’: The Economist Posted: 26 May 2012 03:54 PM PDT The Economist has boiled down China's urbanization into a great 2 1/2 minute video: 'Migration from inland villages to coastal cities has transformed China. Now that is changing, as regional cities inland become the new focus of migration patterns.' More rural workers to leave the inland farms for soon nearer factories–setting a new inflection point for China's 'Lewis Curve.' |
| 70-Year-Old Badass In Kunming Fends Off Demolishers With Molotov Cocktails Posted: 26 May 2012 01:01 PM PDT Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Note to developers and demolition crews: don't think you can destroy a person's home without a fight. Last year, Yang Youde kept bulldozers at bay by constructing a homemade cannon. Earlier this month, a woman killed herself and two local officials with a bomb. For basically as long as houses have been razed, people have resisted, and the latest example is possibly the best: Mr. Zhou, a 70-year-old pensioner decked in camo, hurls petrol bombs at trespassers in the above video, refusing to vacate his home to greedy developers and their multimillion-yuan project. He has turned his flat into a fortress, NBC Nightly News's Angus Walker tells us, and "defends his home like a Medieval castle." We wish Mr. Zhou best of luck. It's almost impossible for him to "win" in any romantic sense, but if he gets enough publicity, maybe developers will be convinced to give him more money. As for the thousands of others who have similar complaints — the hundreds in his neighborhood, even — they'll unfortunately have to live with the sad reality that is China's policy regarding chai, demolition. As the tag to this post says — it just happens. |
| Posted: 26 May 2012 10:28 AM PDT All Western leaders have to make a political calculation over the Dalai Lama: what is the value of showing support for human rights by meeting the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader minus infuriating China? U.K. prime minister David Cameron seems to … Continue reading →  |
| Cannibal serial killer arrested in Yunnan Posted: 26 May 2012 06:51 AM PDT  Yesterday AFP reported that 'Police have detained a man suspected of murdering more than a dozen boys and young men, chopping up their bodies and selling the flesh to unsuspecting consumers'. There had previously been a trickle of reports about teenagers that had disappeared in Yunnan. On May 8, the Global Times English edition ran a story titled 'Yunnan town fears serial kidnapper'. On May 24, the Chongqing Economic Times published a report titled 'In Jinning County, Yunnan Province, 17 people have disappeared – there may be a serial killer', naming Zhang Yongming as the suspect. The earlier Global Times story speculated that the missing young men were possibly victims of a 'serial kidnapper' who may forced them to work in illegal brick kilns near Kunming. The brick kilns' theory was actually thought up by the parents of one of the missing youths, Han Yao. His parents never suspected a serial killer; such evils barely exist in state media, while kidnappings of young men are not uncommon in the provinces. Most end up in coal mines or illegal brick kilns, but more educated kidnap victims sometimes even end up tricked into running white-collar scams like pyramid schemes. Therefore the kilns theory was quite feasible: the Global Times report mentions one man name Lei Yusheng from Yunnan who says he escaped such a place after being grabbed off the street by 'two strong men… armed with a sword [who] pulled him into a van. He was then taken to brick kiln where he was forced to work with 30 other men from 2 am to 12 noon every day.' This sort of trafficking is now so ubiquitous the police barely bother to investigate and it lands on the parents to conduct their own searches. The Global Times report also mentioned another case:
The search was pointless because Xie's son had been the victims of a prolific serial killer, a 56-year-old farmer named Zhang Yongming who lived in a shack near the cold storage unit where victim Han Yao was last glimpsed. Zhang Yongming should have been the police's first suspect: In 1978, he was sentenced to life in prison for murder, after dismembering a victim. He was released in 1997 and lived within a two kilometer radius of all the victims. The local villagers certainly suspected something was up with Zhang: the Daily Telegraph reported on May 24 that 'last December, [Zhang Yongming] was found trying to strangle Zhang Jianyuan, 17, with a belt outside his house'. Police arrived at the house of the convicted murderer but Zhang 'laughed off the episode, saying that he was just fooling with the boy.' The cops also seemed to have a good sense of humour, as they 'simply told [villagers] he was mentally ill'. As sadly undeveloped as China's mental-health awareness is, this failure to detain Zhang for attempted murder probably resulted in the hideous deaths of up to seventeen boys. Grisly details that have so far emerged include that police also found human eyeballs preserved inside wine bottles, and human flesh hanging up to dry, (according to a now deleted article on Guangxi News. The AFP report says that 'green plastic bags containing what appeared to be white bones protruding from the top were seen hanging from his home'. Zhang is now thought to have fed human flesh to his three dogs and sold portions on the market, telling people it was 'ostrich meat,' according to the Hong Kong Standard. Jinning county police chief Da Qiming has been sacked, alongside the head of the Jincheng township police station, Zhao Huiyun. A special Public Security Bureau task force has been sent from Beijing to supervise the case: this is the Crime Investigation Bureau (CIB), the Chinese equivalent of the FBI. While the CIB employs expert staff, they are normally brought in to deal with cases that threaten public stability, and they serve ministerial ends. The victims' parents will probably be largely ignored, the case declared exceptional and individual, and the public afforded little further protection. For more on serial killers by Robert Foyle Hunwick, see Serial killers in China. Links and sources  |
| Saturday Night Musical Outro: Ashtar Command – China Posted: 26 May 2012 08:00 AM PDT Please continue enjoying your weekend. Youku video for those in China after the jump. |
| Posted: 26 May 2012 06:28 AM PDT
Disputes happen on the streets all the time, but there's always a bad way to resolve conflicts and a better way. The example here, from Chengdu, represents the former. I don't want to speculate. But I see what I see, and others, surely, will as well: a white man spits in the face of a Chinese dude before absconding on his bike. This is bad. No matter what happened to precipitate the disagreement, spitting in someone's face immediately before hightailing it seems, at best, cowardly. In this day and age of civility and shit, the act of spitting in a person's face is difficult to justify even if one is in the right. Again, I'm not taking sides, necessarily; just saying that it looks really bad, all things considered. Youku video for those in China after the jump. |
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