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• Watch: Farmers celebrate Chinese New Year with showers of molten metal
• Art Review: Li Xiaojing's "Beyond the Canvas"
• New Poll Up!
• World's 50 Best Restaurants Asia List Released
• Three men imprisoned for life over murder of rival illegal blood trader
• Monkey & Me: Flavorsome Thai Cuisine at a Good Price
• Top 5 Shanghai food streets
• Photos: Step aside Kate Upton, bikini beauty pageant held in Shenyang ski resort
• [CLOSED] WIN passes to French Tuesday
• China Contracts Because China Law Does Matter
• Welcome to Black Dragon River (a.k.a the Stinking Sewer)
• China’s elitist approach to overseas investments
• Photos: Protesting villagers build shrine, pray to officials
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• As Hollywood wallows in self-congratulation, Chinese moviegoers may be feeling neglected
• Man makes romantic fake airline bomb threat to get his girlfriend back
• Is This The World’s First And Worst (Best?) Porn?
• Second Annual “Undie Run” In Beijing Features, Um, Runners In Their Underwear
• Ang Lee Wins Best Director Oscar For Life Of Pi, Pulls Out Chinese And Sanskrit In Acceptance Speech
• China Twitter Accounts You Probably Already Follow, Schmuck

Watch: Farmers celebrate Chinese New Year with showers of molten metal Posted: 25 Feb 2013 08:00 PM PST 'The molten metal sometimes burns me on the face, here and here.' Mr. Zhong, the slightly-scalded metal performer, hasn't been scared away yet. When fireworks are just too lame and safe, do the following: burn down metal scraps, strap on some goggles and a sheepskin coat, scoop up the molten metal, and whip it at a brick wall, admiring the sparks/wall of fiery destruction. Residents in a village outside of Beijing participated as adventurous/crazed performers in the New Year tradition, which attracted wholesome onlookers and pyromaniacs from throughout the country. [ more › ]

Art Review: Li Xiaojing's "Beyond the Canvas" Posted: 25 Feb 2013 08:02 PM PST Date: Feb 26th 2013 11:32a.m. Contributed by: xiaqiu Oil paintings at the intersection of time, space and nature

New Poll Up! Posted: 25 Feb 2013 07:34 PM PST Date: Feb 26th 2013 11:28a.m. Contributed by: leemack

World's 50 Best Restaurants Asia List Released Posted: 25 Feb 2013 07:13 PM PST Date: Feb 26th 2013 11:09a.m. Contributed by: geofferson

Three men imprisoned for life over murder of rival illegal blood trader Posted: 25 Feb 2013 07:00 PM PST A Shanghai court handed down life sentences on Saturday for three men convicted of murdering a rival in the illegal blood trade. Another man was sentenced to eight years behind bars. [ more › ]

Monkey & Me: Flavorsome Thai Cuisine at a Good Price Posted: 25 Feb 2013 06:41 PM PST Date: Feb 26th 2013 10:22a.m. Contributed by: miss_ng_in_action A Thai restaurant takes over the old Rabbit Hole space

Top 5 Shanghai food streets Posted: 25 Feb 2013 06:00 PM PST       It seems the more Shanghai prospers, the more commercial chains encroach upon local food vendors and restaurants. Your favorite bai zhan ji guy makes way for KFC, that grandmotherly lady's noodle shop gets bellied aside by Ajisen Ramen, and the whole Wujiang Lu is uprooted in what feels like a massive cultural lobotomy. Okay, it's not quite that simple; there are food safety issues (though big chains aren't exactly immune either), the question of whether working 20 hours a day at an outdoor stall rolling potstickers is desirable/viable in modern Shanghai, etc. But I think we can all agree that without its food vendors and native eateries, Shanghai would be quite a dull, sepia tone place. So in homage to Shanghai's local food scene, I give you my 5 favorite Shanghai food/restaurant streets. [ more › ]

Photos: Step aside Kate Upton, bikini beauty pageant held in Shenyang ski resort Posted: 25 Feb 2013 05:00 PM PST Demonstrating even less subtlety than Sports Illustrated, organisers of a snow sport contest in Shenyang, Liaoning province, decided to stage a beauty pageant, including a swimsuit contest. Because what's more appropriate to ski in than a bikini? [ more › ]

[CLOSED] WIN passes to French Tuesday Posted: 21 Feb 2013 06:08 PM PST Date: Feb 25th 2013 10:12a.m. Contributed by: katvelayo

China Contracts Because China Law Does Matter Posted: 25 Feb 2013 11:17 AM PST Fascinating and important post over at the Chinese Law Prof blog today, entitled, "When does law matter in China?"  The post and my own experiences lead me to answer by saying "all the time."  But remember mattering is not the same thing as being determinative. Professor Clarke starts his blog post by noting how he is "often asked (skeptically)" whether the law matters in China.  He then answers it with the following: I was struck by this article on the Caixin web site today. Apparently the Ministry of the Environment possesses detailed data on soil pollution in China. Lawyer Dong Zhengwei made a request under the "Regulations on Open Government Information" for that data to be made public. In response, the MOE stated that the information could not be released as it was a state secret. Surprise, surprise, right? Of course the government does not want to release this information. But think about how this scenario could have played out in an era not so different from today: (1) Lawyer requests information. (2) No response. And this could have happened whether or not there were regulations on open government information. Instead, the existence of these regulations combined with a shift in what for want of a better term we might call legal culture has meant that the MOE apparently feels the need to respond in some way. It has to come up with a justification for not revealing the data. And that means it has to put itself in the embarrassing position of lamely claiming that this information is a state secret, implying that releasing it would somehow harm national interests. Let's make two assumptions: (1) an action based on an explicit rationale is easier to criticize than one for which no rationale is supplied; and (2) government officials and agencies would, all other things being equal, prefer not to put themselves in the position of exposing themselves to criticism. If you buy those two assumptions, then at the margin we should expect to see more information being made available as a result of the regulations. In other words, this law matters not because there is some institution out there (for example, courts) that can force the government to reveal information, but because the very procedure, even if it results in an effectively unreviewable decision not to disclose, puts some pressure on government to operate differently from the way in which it has operated in the past. He is absolutely right.  The law had at least some influence here. The reason I found Professor Clarke's post so interesting to me is because I had a similar discussion on a much more micro level just an hour or so before I saw his post.  A company called me about the pros and cons of having an NNN Agreement with its potential Chinese manufacturers.  It had previously had a Chinese company sign an NDA (Non Disclosure Agreement) and had just discovered that company was now selling its product online.  My response was something like the following: An off the shelf U.S. style NDA is virtually never going to work.  First off, they focus on disclosure, when the focus really should be on stopping the Chinese manufacturer from competing with you. Second, they usually call for litigation in the United States, which pretty much every Chinese company knows will have no impact on them because Chinese courts do not enforce U.S. judgments.  We write our agreements very differently.  We write ours so as to convince the Chinese manufacturer that it would be better off not violating our agreement than violating it.  We do this by making sure that our dispute resolution clause has teeth, by making sure that the Chinese manufacturer will be held liable if it manufactures our client's product, and by making clear what the damages/penalty will be for any violation. We have done probably 500 of these agreements by now and about 245 times they come back signed without changes.  Another 245 or so times they come back with reasonable changes and then there is a bit more negotiating and then the agreement gets signed.  Maybe ten times or so, the Chinese company refuses to sign and then we tell our clients to find someone else because that company is refusing to sign because they want to be free to compete without a good NNN Agreement making their life difficult. The potential client then asked if any of our clients had ever sued on such an agreement and I told him that as far as I was aware, none had ever needed to do so, and that showed the strength of the agreement.  I then talked of how the main reason for having such an agreement is to prevent problems, not to be able to win in court if there are problems.  I then made clear that having such an agreement is no guarantee against IP theft, but that if you have a good agreement and you are dealing with a legitimate Chinese company, the odds will be very much in your favor.  And if you do not have such an agreement, I can guarantee that your chances of having problems will go way up. A legal system need not be perfect to be relevant and important.  The U.S. legal system is neither perfect nor certain, and yet nobody ever questions the value of a contract.  Just for the sake of example/argument, let's say the U.S. system works 95% of the time in a commercial context and the Chinese system works 60% of the time in that same context.  My contention is that in both countries it still makes sense to have a good contract because having a good contract sufficiently increases your odds. What do you think?

Welcome to Black Dragon River (a.k.a the Stinking Sewer) Posted: 25 Feb 2013 10:00 AM PST There is a little stretch of river in the city of Shenzhen in Guangdong province where black water meets an endless stream of human filth. The place apparently doesn't have a name, but some online commentators have referred to it as Black Dragon River (黑龙江), substituting the name of one of China's provinces to highlight the overwhelmingly black color of the river. The local people who endure living in this place have simply taken to calling it the Stinking Sewer (臭水沟). Located right next to a number of factories as well as an electronic wholesaler and resident blocks – all of whom disgorge their garbage straight into the river – Black Dragon River is already for years now a black, stinking hole. Naturally online commentators have offered various amounts of money for the head of the local environment protection bureau to take a swim in Black Dragon River. Yet as one journalist from Shenzhen Evening News went to see for himself, people do live there, and have been doing so for years. All this time, Black Dragon River has been black and filthy.We reported last week how Jin Zhengmin (金增敏), a businessman from Zhejiang province, offered to give the head of the local environment protection office 200,000 yuan if he swam in a polluted river in Ruian (瑞安市) in Wenzhou, Zhejiang province. As the front page of the Shenzhen Evening News reports today, ever since Jin made this call on his Weibo account on 16 February, use of the phrase "Environment protection bureau chief please go swim in the river" (请环保局长下河游泳) has become popular on the Chinese Internet. Said environment protection bureau chiefs are now being offered much larger sums to go take a dip in some polluted river. One such request highlighted by the Shenzhen Evening News came from a Weibo user in Shenzhen with the username @胖小谦 (Fat Little Modesty). On Saturday last week, this user uploaded a picture of a river in Bao'an (宝安) in Shenzhen, adding that everybody who went anywhere near it recoiled from the stench. He called the place Black Dragon River (黑龙江). Various other people echoed his calls for the bureau chief to go and wade in the black water, with some pledging more money as a reward. Noticing these conversations on Weibo, a journalist from Shenzhen Evening News went over to this so-called Black Dragon River to see for himself, and his report confirmed the hideous nature of this place. Situated right next to a wholesale electronics market (益华电子城旁) in an industrial zone in Shenzhen, Black Dragon River is a small section of the Shajing (沙井) River that links further south with the Zhujiang River Estuary. The journalist's first impressions of the place went as follows: When the journalist was still 200 meters away from the river, filthy fumes started assaulting his nostrils. The muddy stream itself was the color of blackest ink; looking up over a hundred meters on the course of the river, the sludge was rendered completely black. The residents living nearby told the journalist that for all the six or seven years they have been living at the spot, the river was always as black as it is presently. The fumes in particular have been very difficult to live with all along, especially in time of summer when a plague of mosquitoes makes the place even more unbearable. The local residents informed the journalist that Black Dragon River doesn't actually have a name, so they just call it the Stinking Sewer (臭水沟). The name is indeed apt, as the local factories and residents all dump their sewage in the river. Soon after seeing this horrible sight, the journalist put through a forlorn call to the Bao'an Environment Protection Bureau and Water Affairs Office, but the line just rang and rang, and no-one answered. No-one will save Black Dragon River. Links and sources Shenzhen Evening News (深圳晚报): "请环保局长下河游泳"

China’s elitist approach to overseas investments Posted: 25 Feb 2013 09:42 AM PST China's overseas expansion is marked by corruption, poorly treated workers and a lack of social integration China-based journalists Juan Pablo Cardenal and Heriberto Araujo talk to chinadialogue managing editor Tom Levitt about their three-year investigation of China's expanding global influence Tom Levitt: Do you believe there is a lack of oversight of Chinese companies working overseas? Definitely there is a lack of control in a way from both sides. Some of the countries China is investing in or engaging with loans are weak in their system of checks and balances. But [the problems] are also a consequence of the lack of checks and balances in China especially in terms of the rule of law. We always wondered when we were travelling if a Chinese company has an environmental problem in one of these countries, could the company be sued in China? I am not sure they would be, especially if you are talking about state-owned companies. There is no incentive to look into what the state-owned companies and banks are doing abroad. It's not all bad but there is definitely no incentive to look into that because the state owned companies and banks are part of what we know as China INC. We know that China has a strategic need for resources for its development. Therefore who is going to scrutinise or look into the standards or bad practices of these state-owned companies abroad? I can't see any political opposition who will denounce it and NGOs are not strong or independent enough. The West are not better or worse, but the system makes a difference. In the West a bad behaviour is more controlled and scrutinised with penalties in terms of image, financially or even jail. I can't see anything like that in China. TL: What is China's approach to overseas investment? It's a silent approach, so in a way it's like soft power. It is nothing to do with a military conquest so completely different to what western countries did in the past. For China, it's all about the economy, natural resources and making the state-owned companies global. For them the developing world is a place where they potentially face less competition. Then there's another level of Chinese presence in the developing world and that's the private sector; small entrepreneurs, businessmen and migrant workers. They're human beings with a drive to have a better life. It's important to understand those two levels of Chinese presence and investment because they are completely different. TL: What is the motivation for those leaving China for developing countries? There isn't any central policy from Beijing to push or encourage private businessmen or migrants to go abroad. There is the "go global policy" so state officials are happy to see these companies going global and in a way competing with the international big companies, it makes China more competitive. In some regions where there is a high degree of unemployment, local governments are tolerating or even promoting Chinese people going abroad, through for example recruitment agencies, which bring people abroad to work on infrastructure projects for state-owned companies. In the case of entrepreneurs, we witnessed dozens of individuals leaving the country because, for example, they'd been told by someone in their village that if you go to Egypt and sell clothes door-to-door you can make good money. They're very brave and take that risk to go, because sometimes they have to fight back against xenophobia or anger from local population. "It's not that there's hunger back home but there is a lack of opportunities," a migrant worker told us. If you go to China now you can feel something that comes out of each of the Chinese, which is that this is our historical moment to make a better life, to improve. This is one of their big strengths. In each one of the Chinese people, whether in China or abroad, they have a feeling that they have to work to have a better life and give their children a better life. TL: Is there a problem with social integration? In many of the infrastructure projects they have flown in a couple of thousand of Chinese workers, where they stay in a camp for two or three years - they don't want to leave because they don't know the place or speak the language. So the perception from outside the camp is what's wrong with these people, they don't want to interact with us, we never see them – it's where the theories about them being Chinese prisoners comes from. In Mozambique we heard workers saying, "they come here and earning money but they don't want to share a couple of drinks with it. The Italians have Mozambique girlfriends, but the Chinese don't even look at our girls". It's a simple way of looking at this, but what I think they mean is that there is no social interaction. TL: You talk a lot about the poor treatment of workers, but are conditions any worse than those with other foreign-owned or local companies? The work of Human Rights Watch in Zambia, in the copper belt, backs up what we found. If you compare Chinese mines in Zambia to any other foreign or local mine you find them paying the lowest salaries, having the lowest safety standards and poorest working conditions. According to the unions, the only mining company that had standard conditions was one that had recently taken over a mine that had previously been owned by an Indian company. It's anecdotal evidence yes, but we have been in 25 countries and have witnessed this anger from the workers in places as different as Siberia, Mozambique and Peru. When you go to all those places and see something common we feel we are legitimate in saying the pattern of Chinese companies is morally wrong. They may be within the law but we can say for sure that the workers believe they are being treated unfairly. We don't say the Western companies are better, they all believe in one thing, money and business. The difference is that we can now know what foreign companies are doing because we have media, NGOs and civil society, but what about the Chinese companies. Is the Chinese judicial system going after those companies if they are not fulfilling the law? I think what we see, in a way, is the limits of the current Chinese system. We've heard for so long about this win-win situation about what China is doing abroad and how helpful it is, something we don't deny. But there's a huge gap between what the official rhetoric says they are doing and what is really happening on the ground – and that's what we've been able to document in countries like Mozambique and Zambia. TL: What is the long-term impact of these failings? China has a PR problem. They have it in China and they have it abroad and honestly, it's very difficult to understand how a country can invest so heavily in the developing world, giving billions of dollars in loans and helping those countries build infrastructure etc but are not able to talk about it. If they could explain it, people would understand. We can understand they don't want to explain the bad parts of the picture, but there's a lot of room to explain the good things. By not explaining things at a local level to people, they're fuelling potential conflicts. We don't deny the good things, but there are side-effects and they make people suffer. People who are not part of the picture. Honestly, at this point, we're not optimistic they will, because everything ends up in the Chinese political system. There are voices in China that realise that going to a country and building a dam is not enough and that you have to consider the side-affects. They need to change it, but they'll probably have to change it in China first. If you change the system of how China INC operates abroad it means the efficacy of this system is going to decrease. It will become more like our system where you have a lot of decision-makers before you have a law. Then you also need to take account of all the environmental and social impact studies. This will take away the ability to make quick decisions and to do business in countries that are very risky. China is making these huge investments and loans in countries that few could believe are very stable, such as Turkmenistan, where China has given more than US$8 billion in loans to improve infrastructure and build a gas pipeline to sell its main source of income to another country other than Russia. But Turkmenistan is one of the most isolated and corrupt countries in the world. So what happens if the president one day is changed by revolution? How are you going to keep your economic interests? Or what about Venezuela? The Chinese development Bank lent over US$40 billion in exchange for access to one of the biggest reserves of oil in the world. We now see a president who is ill, if there is a change in Venezuela what is going to happen with this US$40 billion? Some say that what Chavez did was illegal in terms of the Venezuela legal system. TL: What kind of environmental impacts is China having overseas? The environmental impact is not only created by the Chinese companies, it is also the responsibility of the recipient countries. Take the example of Mozambique or Siberia, you have local authorities allowing state-owned companies or Chinese businessmen to take the logs and import them to China and gaining all the value there. Read: Mozambique losing millions to illegal Chinese logging trade The key issue is that this system is possible because there is corruption in the middle of everything. The Chinese are able to export those logs, not within the law, because they are paying bribes at the border, allowing them to cross on the trains with the logs. It's even worse in Mozambique where you see those companies giving loans to those local companies, who then cut the trees down and put them on a cargo to China. This is where we see the link between corruption and the environmental impact. TL: Do you think things are getting better or worse in terms of China's overseas impact? Recently we've witnessed Chinese workers being abducted in Sudan and a few even killed in Egypt and Nigeria. That's a new problem. In terms of the impact, I think we still need a few more years to see what the real impact of Chinese overseas expansion is. Thanks to Chinese investment and engagement in Africa and Latin America you are seeing those countries in the centre of the international debate and that has created international attention. For the recipient countries like Mozambique and DRC to have the global powers competing for their resources, if they manage to do it in the right way, is very good. For China it's going to get better because they're having opportunities in the developed world that they didn't have before, for example in Canada. I don't think China would have had the access they are having into Western markets if there wasn't the crisis. For the recipient countries, honestly, we're not very sure how this is going to develop. Logic tells me this system in which China only engages with the elites and doesn't pay attention to the side-effects, is going to cause them problems in a number of countries and generally speaking this is not a system that is going to work in the long-term. But that's what we've been saying for 30 years about China itself, but its still growing. Juan Pablo Cardenal and Heriberto Araujo are authors of 'China's Silent Army: The pioneers, traders, fixers and workers who are remaking the world in Beijing's image'. It is being published in Chinese in 2013 in Taiwan.

Photos: Protesting villagers build shrine, pray to officials Posted: 25 Feb 2013 05:00 AM PST         After repeated attempts to bring their petition to top officials through regular channels, one village in Hebei has turned to the supernatural. [ more › ]

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As Hollywood wallows in self-congratulation, Chinese moviegoers may be feeling neglected Posted: 25 Feb 2013 04:00 AM PST On Hollywood's biggest night of the year, Chinese moviegoers may be feeling slightly neglected. [ more › ]

Man makes romantic fake airline bomb threat to get his girlfriend back Posted: 25 Feb 2013 03:00 AM PST An airliner bound for Shenzhen made an emergency landing midflight last Thursday after a man called in a fake bomb threat in order to keep his girlfriend from leaving onboard, the Shanghai Daily reports. [ more › ]

Is This The World’s First And Worst (Best?) Porn? Posted: 25 Feb 2013 01:03 AM PST The art of eroticism has come a long way since 2000 BC. Check out these petroglyphs from the Bronze Age – the Kangjiashimenji Petroglyphs — found in Xinjiang. Slate's Mary Mycio reports they were discovered in the late-80s by archaeologist Wang Binghua, with Jeannine Davis-Kimball being the first Westerner to see them. The cast of 100 figures presents what is obviously a fertility ritual (or several). They range in size from more than nine feet tall to just a few inches. All perform the same ceremonial pose, holding their arms out and bent at the elbows. The right hand points up and the left hand points down, possibly to indicate earth and sky. Give the article a read. With a bit of imagination, you too might see bisexual orgies, frat boys playing soggy cookie, copulation with dogs, and other weird shit. It's like watching a fuzzed-out TV screen showing blocked pay-per-view porn. The World's Oldest Pornography (Slate, h/t Alicia via Sina, which says those with triangular torsos are the females… if that helps any of you masturbators)

Second Annual “Undie Run” In Beijing Features, Um, Runners In Their Underwear Posted: 24 Feb 2013 11:07 PM PST Beijing hosted its second Undie Run yesterday, a 3.5-kilometer jaunt through Olympic Forest Park, Xinhua reports (more pictures via that link). Organizers say the event was to promote nature and fitness. There were about 300 participants, including one who was as young as nine years old. More info via Asia One News: There were no referees or trophies, no starting gun or finishing line. But there were a lot of laughs and bonding even before the group warm up started. The runners started circling the park at 9:40 am. Wang Yibin, organizer of the event, said the run is a wake-up call to those who had too much to eat over Spring Festival. "It's time to confront your own body," Wang said. Marathon season is also starting next month. "We should get in shape and be ready," Wang said.

Ang Lee Wins Best Director Oscar For Life Of Pi, Pulls Out Chinese And Sanskrit In Acceptance Speech Posted: 24 Feb 2013 09:20 PM PST The Taiwanese-born Ang Lee, who previously won Best Director for Brokeback Mountain, has claimed his second Oscar, this time for Life of Pi. He beat out the favored Steven Spielberg, who directed Lincoln, and Michael Haneke (Armour), David O. Russell (Silver Linings Playbook), and Benh Zeitlin (Beasts of the Southern Wild). In one of the more notable acceptance speech moments this year, Lee thanked the 3,000 people who worked on the film with him, plus Taiwan. He ended with a "thank you" in Chinese and the Indian valediction "namaste." Ang Lee's 'Namastey" during his Oscar'sacceptance speech worth more than the Golden Statuette in his hands. — Shobhaa Deさん (@DeShobhaa) 2013年2月25日 One reaction from Taiwan, via WSJ: In reaction to Ang Lee's best-director win, Chu Wen-ching, head of the Bureau Audiovisual and Music Industry Development of the Ministry of Culture, said: "We are very pleased and feel honored to know that Lee Ang has won the award as Best Director. He has brought honor and glory to Taiwan." By the way, a reminder that last time Lee won an Oscar, in 2006, Chinese censors scrubbed out references to Taiwan and homosexuality in the CCTV broadcast. Some netizens certainly remember: from Weibo: Taiwan has Ang Lee, Hong Kong has Wong Kai-Wai and Mainland has SARFT (State Administration of Radio, Film, and Television). — Li Yuanさん (@LiYuan6) 2013年2月25日 CCTV, however, seems to have relaxed its censorship this time, or at least just doesn't care as much: Richard Gere just showed up as a presenter at the Oscars. No way CCTV will replay the ceremony in China. — Edward Wongさん (@comradewong) 2013年2月25日 I'm told CCTV 6 streamed Richard Gere appearing at the Oscars. I guess censors slow to catch on or think he's irrelevant. — Edward Wongさん (@comradewong) 2013年2月25日 That's Richard Gere, famous Buddhist, China hater.

China Twitter Accounts You Probably Already Follow, Schmuck Posted: 24 Feb 2013 07:43 PM PST At the end of every year, the meejah publish lists: what's what, what's hot, what's not, what's frot — y'know, "Top 10 Worst Celebrity Red Carpet Frock Horrors!" and other such high-water marks for journalism. But being lazy and living in China, we thought we'd wait until the end of the Dragon Year to do something similar. And seeing as we're cheeky and crass, we thought we'd take a slightly different approach. So here it is, our list of the 28 China-related Twitter accounts that, indiscriminately chosen via no particular criteria, have earned a place in our Hall of Flame. This collection took about five minutes to compile, so please don't feel offended if you're not included. There's always next year… Speaking of which, nominations are now open for yourself or others for future iterations of the Beijing Cream Twitterati. Ai Weiwei, artist @aiww Even the most mundane observation treated as holy writ. 我拍了张照片 instagr.am/p/UkepGYKD0g/ — 艾未未Ai Weiweiさん (@aiww) 2013年1月17日 William Albano, techy @niub Had us confused with @niubi for MONTHS. More confusingly, Albano's website is Niubi.com. Rural China Offers Big Opportunities, Too – Michael J. Silverstein – Harvard Business Review bit.ly/WvyXMC — William Albano 艾惟さん (@NiuB) 2013年2月7日 Hu Xijin, editor @HuXijinGT Responsible for everything you hate and love about Global Times. Lives under fake Qing-style bridge, probably. Follows only one other Twitter account: his own newspaper's. You can't make this shit up… can you, Mr. Hu? The CPC's decision against Bo Xilai highlights that nobody is above the law and discipline in China. globaltimes.cn/NEWS/tabid/99/… — Hu Xijin | 胡锡进さん (@HuXijinGT) 2012年4月11日 Shaun Rein, author @shanurein Avowed "friend of China." Keeps good, long memory for grudges – bit like his friends in government. @niubi anthony tao worse than King Tubby. He allowed KT to write Rein-Goebbels award on his site. Disgusting. Unprofessional.I won't forget — Shaun Reinさん (@shaunrein) 2013年1月7日 Elyse Ribbons, thespian, MC, deleted Jackie Chan extra @iheartbeijing Can always be counted on to humblebrag, be irritating, or fail to realize she's being a humblebragging irritant. Took us exactly four seconds to find example tweet. I love I find out that I'm in the morning papers by having a friend text me ;p instagr.am/p/VVdUH8Pmpg/ — Elyse Ribbons 柳素英さん (@iheartbeijing) 2013年2月5日 Kaiser Kuo, Henan native @kaiserkuo Like Jimmy Page and Keith Richards before him, retired from rock 'n roll to become PR frontman for tech giant. Has anyone read the newest Umberto Eco novel "The Prague Cemetery"? Thoughts on it? Loved "Foucault's Pendulum," if that helps. — Kaiser Kuoさん (@KaiserKuo) 2013年2月7日 Jeremy Goldkorn, media consultant @goldkorn Successful despite hailing from country that instituted Apartheid. Enjoys a sherry or two before recording podcasts. I wish Lance Armstrong and Manti Te'o would disappear from my Twitter feed, but sadly, lots of people I follow are interested in them — Jeremy Goldkorn 金玉米さん (@goldkorn) 2013年1月18日 Bill Bishop, unknown @niubi Will assassinate you on Twitter, judging by his profile pic. finally crossed 10,000 followers on sina weibo. maybe 150 are real, but happy i have not purchased any — Bill Bishopさん (@niubi) 2012年5月17日 Jim Boyce, bon vivant @beijingboyce Nightlife blogger who hates life, nighttime @melodychia Well, there's still Aussie wine, Cooper's, VB, meat pies and sausage rolls, Aussie burgers, Triple J, Frente, Dame Edna, etc. — beijingboyceさん (@beijingboyce) 2013年1月18日 Nicholas Kristof, journalist @nickkristof It's now a two-horse race between Nick Kristof and Tom Friedman on who can be the Tom Friedman of China. NY Times apparently closes a loophole that allowed free access to the Website nymag.com/daily/intellig… — Nicholas Kristofさん (@NickKristof) 2013年2月12日 Cam MacMurchy, communications @zhongnanhai Chummy Canadian loves to let you know about his lunch habits. .@miss_rosso I'm 33… we used hammered or wasted usually! #sheltered RT @marcwan @zhongnanhai "My name is Otto … and I like to get Blotto…" — Cam MacMurchyさん (@zhongnanhai) 2013年1月11日 Charlie Custer, techy @chinageeks Continues epistles about China from the safety of the US. Look, dogs! even MY email got hacked (at least) once while I was in China, and I have no connections. Pretty sure it happens to real foreign media a lot — Charlie Custerさん (@ChinaGeeks) 2013年2月1日 Alicia Lui, consultant @alicialui1 Cat tweets and Buzzfeed, basically. Ziggy sleeping next to the cactus in our nook. Lighting's good sunny inside but -9 celsius outside twitter.com/AliciaLui1/sta… — Alicia Luiさん (@AliciaLui1) 2013年1月3日 This guy @akadashan Too much Chinese. 王平是我非常尊敬的相声表演艺术家。在后台休息室里只要王平在我就很少讲话，还特爱听他神侃。王平知识渊博，活儿特别磁实。记得有一次他为我报幕："一个加拿大人，不远万里，赖在中国就他妈不走…."，哈哈哈哈。师叔，今天为你流泪，一路走好！dashan.com/?p=7678 — 大山 Dashanさん (@akaDashan) 2013年2月23日 China Daily, media @chinadailyusa Previous twitter account, @china_daily, "suspended." It followed porn stars. Chinese leaders send greetings for Lunar New Yearbit.ly/14HEtNP — China Daily USAさん (@ChinaDailyUSA) 2013年2月8日 Jonah Kessel, photographer @Jonah_Kessel The below was tweeted after a series of interminable updates of his video uploading activities on Vimeo. Ack. Just realized Vimeo settings are allbeing fed to Twitter. Apologizes. Fixing now. — Jonah Kesselさん (@jonah_kessel) 2012年9月11日 Yet the updates continue… China Daily Show, humor @chinadailyshow Tweeting behind a mask, often with punctuation or spelling typos that ruin the joke. Scurrilous. 'Don't write a China memoir' –14 Snake Year resolutions you may not have considered bit.ly/Xf6bMF — China Daily Showさん (@chinadailyshow) 2013年2月17日 The Beijinger, magazine @thebeijinger Sigh x 1000. @tiffwang And lord knows you've needed the help on more than one occasion! — thebeijingerさん (@thebeijinger) 2013年1月29日 That's Beijing, the ghost of Mark Kitto, @thats_beijing Is actually running our Twitter piece in this month's magazine. Hmm. New issue is out at a bar, restaurant or hotel near you. It's great for picking up girls. — That's Beijingさん (@Thats_Beijing) 2012年12月28日 Anthony Tao, Kansan @anthonytao Ultimate Frisbee aka "supreme disc" aficionado who is random and irrelevant. Oh so weird. I!N!T!E!R!N!E!T! @ NARITA — Anthony Taoさん (@anthonytao) 2013年2月1日 Miniharm, satire @miniharm Logo reminds us of NAMbLA's. Content isn't as likeable, sadly. Nude toddler to face death penalty for mooning Li Keqiang. Flashing a senior party official is punishable by death. More as we get it. — Ministry of Harmonyさん (@Miniharm) 2013年2月7日 City Weekend, biweekly @cityweekend Matriarchal editorial staff yet to unleash the true power of feminism, more Kitty Weekend. Taste: Good Things Come in Small Packages bit.ly/130Faz2 – #Beijing — City Weekendさん (@cityweekend) 2013年2月18日 Kim Jong Number Un, "humor" @kimjongnumberun The jokes about "Dad," famine and swapping nukes for an iPhone 5 were amusing for about four tweets. Astonishingly, has nearly quarter-million followers; follows only one (Kim Kardashian). LOL? People of North Korea: Please stop asking Siri where the food is. — KimJongNumberUnさん (@KimJongNumberUn) 2013年1月9日 Shanghaiist, blog @shanghaiist If you've missed a story on Beijing Cream, don't worry: it'll probably turn up here. More nom noms at Shanghaiist Food & Drink! Don't forget to follow us on Twitter at… fb.me/1x1oD8wF7 — Shanghaiist.comさん (@shanghaiist) 2013年2月17日 Want China Times, website @wantchinatimes Unverified and thinly sourced. Also, the name. What next, Yum! Daily? Glacier gets racier: Bikini shoot at Sichuan's Hailuogou bit.ly/14N91xU — Want China Timesさん (@WantChinaTimes) 2013年2月11日 Steve George, editor @steve0george True believer in the expat mag. Basically an asshole. That's Beijing's new Penguin-inspired literary edition, out now (coffee stain is intentional) @penguinchina twitter.com/steve0george/s… — Steve Georgeさん (@steve0george) 2013年2月14日 Xinhua News, soft pornographer @XHNews Always scooping foreign journalists on, well, everything, really. Xi Jinping was appointed secretary-general of 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China on Wednesday, a spokesman said. — Xinhua News Agencyさん (@XHNews) 2012年11月7日 Beijing Cream, porn @beijingcream Ribald, irreverent, snarky, meta, misinformed. "Slags." We're on autopilot today. If anything burns down, it wasn't our fault. — Beijing Creamさん (@beijingcream) 2013年2月1日 To slag this much is to love.

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