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- Liu Xiang Is Now A Poster Boy For Premature Ejaculation
- Teacher in Shenzhen punishing kids by stamping their foreheads
- Shanghai Weekender: Bon Voyage
- Genius Chinese hospitals now boycotting Japanese medicine
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- ‘Property Slump Reshapes List of China’s Richest’: Wall Street Journal
- Photo of the Day: Is it nearly Friday?
- Today's links: Shinzo Abe, flattened protesters, and assaulted cosplayers
- Picture Of The Day: Audis, Black
- Teacher stamps marks on underachieving students’ faces
- A Sound of Thunder
- Protester Crushed To Death By Steamroller, Possibly On Order Of Town’s Vice Mayor
- Lab-grown meat: it’s better for the planet but will anyone eat it?
- Freedom on the Net 2012: China worse even than Burma when it comes to online repression
- Ai Weiwei unbowed by tax evasion case, vows to keep fighting
- Mid-Week Links: Panda cub death, Chinese aircraft carrier, and a music video between Zhang Muyi, 24, and Akama Miki, 12
- Protester shot to death while on fire at Liaoning demolition
- China's bilateral "negotiations" in the South China Sea, Ctd
- Eli Friedman on why boycotting Foxconn/Apple won't help
- Human Flesh Engine Search Is On For Man Who Assaulted Toyota Corolla Driver In Xi’an [Graphic Video]
Liu Xiang Is Now A Poster Boy For Premature Ejaculation Posted: 26 Sep 2012 08:19 PM PDT Poor Liu Xiang. In 2004, he was the poster boy for China and Asian athletes. Now he is the unwitting symbol of premature ejaculation. As Ministry of Tofu noted on Tuesday, a newspaper ad has found another way to poke fun at Liu's dismal performance (I mean his fakery and everything that transpired after he crashed out, not the injury itself) at the London Olympics. The ad reads:
On Sina Weibo, one of these posts (there are more than one) has received nearly 1,200 comments and more than 11,000 forwards to date. If you want to discover all the "laughing" emoticons available on Weibo — open-mouthed, giggling, etc. — click on that link. And then, in the comments section, you have the True Believer who gets all huffy and is like, "Lowly merchant. Can't even afford a spokesperson. Only score points on table-scraping shots. And you want to help patients. Who would dare? No ethics, no baseline, degenerate hospital. Liu Xiang and you have half a mao's worth of relations." Yes, @呆大秋. Meanwhile, in the world the rest of us occupy, where a man is only as sacrosanct as the number of hurdles he's able to clear, and the number of 15-minute sex blocks he's able to complete: |
Teacher in Shenzhen punishing kids by stamping their foreheads Posted: 26 Sep 2012 09:00 PM PDT |
Shanghai Weekender: Bon Voyage Posted: 26 Sep 2012 08:06 PM PDT |
Genius Chinese hospitals now boycotting Japanese medicine Posted: 26 Sep 2012 08:00 PM PDT Kyodo News reports that the totally grassroots and not at all government encouraged campaign to boycott Japanese goods has found sympathy amongst doctors and hospital administrators, according to sources, Japanese companies have reported a sharp increase in the return of pharmaceutical products from Chinese hospitals. [ more › ] |
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‘Property Slump Reshapes List of China’s Richest’: Wall Street Journal Posted: 26 Sep 2012 06:40 PM PDT I follow the Chinese real estate market closely. Especially whether or not the recent declines in residential prices will let more of China's '47%' afford decent places to live. Somehow, until today, I hadn't considered the impact on the wealth of individual wealthy Chinese. But, boy, I am now: Nearly 50% of China's top 1,000 wealthiest citizens have faced financial losses this year, with the average wealth falling 9% to $860 million from a year earlier, according to a new ranking of China's richest from Hurun Report, a Shanghai-based group that follows wealth trends in the country. Thirty-seven of China's richest have lost as much as half of their wealth and the number of dollar billionaires dropped to 251, 20 fewer than a year earlier, the report said. But, don't despair. '…[M]anufacturing had replaced property as the biggest source of wealth for China's ultrarich.' Check out this chart from the Wall Street Journal's 'Property Slump Reshapes List of China's Richest' (quoted throughout): Giving how manufacturing has been going, this could a problem in the next survey. So, where will Chinese rich people next make fortunes? Here's a good WSJ video that lays things out: How bad have things really gotten among the economic elite? '…although some wealth has been lost this year, there have also been significant gains. "Compare this list to just two years ago and you will see that China's wealth has increased significantly," he [Rupert Hoogewerf, Hurun's chairman and chief researcher] said, noting that six years ago China had 15 billionaires, compared with the 251 now. Oh, okay, not as bad as I thought. |
Photo of the Day: Is it nearly Friday? Posted: 26 Sep 2012 06:59 PM PDT Want to see your picture here? Share your photos with us on Instagram and Flickr using the tag #shanghaiist! [ more › ] |
Today's links: Shinzo Abe, flattened protesters, and assaulted cosplayers Posted: 26 Sep 2012 06:30 PM PDT A few links to start off your day: Shinzo Abe, flattened protesters, and assaulted cosplayers. [ more › ] |
Picture Of The Day: Audis, Black Posted: 26 Sep 2012 05:00 PM PDT |
Teacher stamps marks on underachieving students’ faces Posted: 26 Sep 2012 02:19 PM PDT From Southern Metropolis Daily and Sina Weibo An elementary school teacher in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen has been widely criticized on the Internet for stamping red and blue marks on her students' faces based on how they behave at school to tell good students from "bad" ones. The complaint over the public humiliation and discrimination was first brought by a parent to Southern Metropolis Daily. "Is that any different from stigmatizing an inmate with tattoo on his face in the ancient times?" he asked. The reporter with the newspaper came to Shangfen Primary School in Shenzhen on the afternoon of September 25, and saw at least three students bearing marks on their foreheads in the third-grade class. According to the students, top-performing students received red marks on their faces, whereas the mischievous ones got blue marks. In Class 1, Grade 3 at Shangfen Elementary School in Shenzhen, three students are seen bearing stamps on their faces, including one girl having a red flower on her forehead that says "Award." The other two students wear smudged blue marks. Both of them have tried to wipe the mark away. One student with a blue mark told the reporter, "Everyone knows blue stands for bad behavior. Many classmates laughed at me. My pride is so hurt." He said he once pled the teacher to stamp the mark on his arm instead of the face to make it less visible, only to be refused by the teacher. The teacher even told him not to remove it until he got home. The reporter found the class was the only one in the school to stamp marks directly on students' faces. The teacher, Ms.Guo, explained that the school has been promoting a performance appraisal system since the beginning of this year. Each student has a booklet to collect stamps. After a certain number of red stamps are collected, the student can get a badge of honor awarded by the school principal. Ms. Guo, who has been accused of her improper teaching method, graduated from college not long ago and is a new teacher at the elementary school. "Given that once the stamp is left on the booklet, it is final and cannot be erased, I wanted to stamp it on their bodies, especially on underachieving kids, to spur them on and fight for more red stamps," Guo explained. She apologized for her lack of consideration. Li Yu, the vide principal, said that Ms. Guo is a newly-arrived teacher and lacks experiences; she meant well but did not handle the matter correctly, "We will strengthen our training of young teachers to avoid similar mistakes in the future. Respect for kids always comes first," but he did not say if Guo would be fired. Last October, an elementary school forced "bad" students to wear green scarf as opposed to the typical red scarf worn by most Chinese pupils as a badge of shame, which came in for much criticism of its teaching method. Selected comments on Sina Weibo:
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Posted: 25 Sep 2012 06:00 PM PDT As the time machine settled emerged from the plasma void, the world came back into focus through the tiny porthole. It was a jungle, and the jungle was high and broad and the entire world forever and forever. Sounds like music and sounds like flying tents filled the sky, and those were pterodactyls soaring with cavernous gray wings, gigantic bats of delirium and night fever. As the machine started its cooldown cycle, Eckles reached for his rifle and pursed his lips in satisfaction: after years of anticipation, it was finally time for the hunt to begin.Learning Chinese? Our shows at the advanced level assume that you're either relatively fluent in mandarin, or very close to being fluent. Because of this, we focus less on colloquial Chinese and more on the sort of problems that upper-level students face: advanced vocab acquisition and dealing with less colloquial Chinese. In this show, join us as we explore the problems of paradox and let us know what you think in the comments section below. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
Protester Crushed To Death By Steamroller, Possibly On Order Of Town’s Vice Mayor Posted: 26 Sep 2012 11:14 AM PDT On September 16, a man protesting demolition-relocation in Lianhua City in Changsha, Hunan province was crushed to death under a steamroller, possibly by order of the deputy mayor, as reported by KDNet on Sunday. The incident was posted onto Sina Weibo on Monday, where it has since been forwarded more than 16,000 times, eliciting comments such as, "Why should we love country?" (@manhengjie) and, "Spectacle too horrible to endure" (@娴情依旧4448). The story: A villager named He Zhihua was upset about being forced to relocate to make room for a road project, so on September 16, he confronted Lianhua City vice mayor Ling Yun at a construction site. Ling slapped him, escalating a volatile situation. According to witnesses, He laid himself in front of a steamroller and shouted, "You got any skill, you'll run me over!" Ling's reply was unexpected. "If this expressway is to be finished, a few people need to die. Killing you will yield monetary compensation." And just like that, the steamroller drove over He, "splattering his brains," as the KDNet write-up describes it. Those watching nearby apparently said, "Too merciless." The next day, another clash broke out between contractors and residents, resulting in 20 villagers getting injured, five of them seriously. Their camera phones were confiscated. Furthermore, He's 13-year-old daughter, He Ao, tried to commit suicide by jumping into the river, but was fortunately rescued. Still according to KDNet, a local resident named Wang Jiyong said that the government sent 400 to 500 public security officers to steal He's corpse and handcuff those who would do something about it. He Zhihua's family had not even properly prepared his body for the funeral — which, obviously, will now not happen. (The website Infowars reports — source unknown — that "the government sent in 200 men to keep angry locals at bay and hide the remains of the body. The man's family was offered a sum of money in order to keep quiet about the incident.") One more graphic image here, featuring what appears to be He Zhihua's brains on the road. |
Lab-grown meat: it’s better for the planet but will anyone eat it? Posted: 25 Sep 2012 09:54 AM PDT Lab-grown meat could help reduce the environmental footprint of intensive farming. But will it ever appeal to vegetarians and eco-conscious consumers? Before the end of the year, Dutch scientists are promising a high-profile debut for a burger made from meat grown not on a farm but in their laboratory. |
Freedom on the Net 2012: China worse even than Burma when it comes to online repression Posted: 26 Sep 2012 08:00 AM PDT Freedom House, an "independent watchdog organization dedicated to the expansion of freedom around the world", has published its 2012 Freedom on the Net Report, and the news isn't good for Chinese internet users. [ more › ] |
Ai Weiwei unbowed by tax evasion case, vows to keep fighting Posted: 26 Sep 2012 07:30 AM PDT A decision is expected on Thursday on whether the Chinese courts will accept Ai Weiwei's second appeal against the 15 million RMB tax evasion charge brought against him in November, 2011. The dissident artist has vowed to keep fighting the charges if, as expected, the court rejects his appeal. [ more › ] |
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The entire BJC editorial board is at trivia, and we swear we're only here for the "fun." Here are your links. Sad: 6-day-old panda cub dies in Washington DC's National Zoo. "Thousands of people had watched an online video feed of the cub's mother, 14-year-old Mei Xiang, hoping to catch a glimpse of the newborn during its few days of life. Fans from around the country and the world shared their sympathy on social media sites, and many said they shared an emotional connection with the burly, black-and-white bear. // Since the cub's death, Mei Xiang has started eating and interacting with her keepers again. She slept Sunday night while cradling a plastic toy in an apparent show of maternal instinct, Kelly said." [Washington Post] Report: Foxconn disturbances will recur unless there's change from within. "But the improvements are not enough, many Foxconn workers say. 'It's not about the money. . . . It's a problem of management. It's a mess. The guards often abuse their power over the workers,' said Wang Zhiqian, who used to work on Foxconn's production line and now recruits workers for the company. 'We attract many fewer workers now than in 2010. People would rather work at a hotel or other places. It's not a lack of workers in these areas — it's a problem of spiritual emptiness.' // Wang and others describe workdays that routinely extend three hours into overtime, leaving little opportunity to do anything after hours but sleep. And they say there is little talk among the workers, who stew in their frustrations." [Washington Post] Corollary: "The riot at Foxconn — or any of the other five hundred 'mass incidents' that China records on an average day — has implications far beyond Apple. Labor activists say that they are happening more often this year than last." [Evan Osnos, New Yorker] Behold, China's first aircraft carrier. "The 300m (990ft) Liaoning – named after the province where it was refitted – is a refurbished Soviet ship purchased from Ukraine. // For now the carrier has no operational aircraft and will be used for training. // But China says the vessel, which has undergone extensive sea trials, will increase its capacity to defend state interests." [BBC] People! "During last week's Nanjing Live cosplay event in, well, Nanjing, a young girl was attacked while on stage by supposed anti-Japanese protesters. The cosplayer, who remains unnamed, was cosplaying as a character from the Chinese/Taiwanese classic rpg The Legend of Sword and Fairy (仙劍奇俠傳). // The Legend of Sword and Fairywas a martial arts fantasy RPG developed in Taiwan in 1995. The game reached cult status once it hit the Chinese Mainland. It had very little to do with Japan." [Kotaku] See, we don't only link to Global Times when it does bad things; not sure about the byline though. "This spree of utilizing the Diaoyu Islands as a commercial catchword is shameful. // Patriotism is a profound feeling that should never be aroused through glib commercialism, used to amuse consumers and fatten wallets. // The country remembers a notice announcing 'No dogs or Chinese allowed,' at the entrance of Huangpu Park in Shanghai in the early 20th century as a racist sign symbolizing a dark era. It is ludicrous that such a despicable notice today has found a copycat in our country today." [Chen Chenchen, Global Times] Sad, again: bride killed by bus just days before wedding. "A young couple were standing on the side of the road waiting for the bus. The man noticed the bus they wanted to take was passing them, and the woman stuck her thumb out. The bus did not slow down and hit her, pushing her toward the roadside barrier 4 meters away." [The Nanfang] Raysissss? "By traveling from city to city on a map, microscopic protists known as slime molds have figured out how to take over the world. // Starting in Beijing, the slime mold Physarum polycephalum developed a well-organized network for global domination that mimicked historic trade routes like Asia's Silk Road." [Wired] Remember 24-year-old Zhang Muyi and 12-year-old Akama Miki's "love"? They've made a duet music video, via Gawker: Finally… Interview with Ying Zhu, author of Two Billion Eyes – The Story of China Central Television. [Danwei] David Schlesinger on China: "News doesn't necessarily equal understanding." [Tripod Advisers] "Efforts to rescue a total of 22 miners, who were trapped following three separate accidents in different parts of China, continued on Monday." [China Daily] "24 funny differences between China and the United States." [China Whisper] Finally, finally…
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Protester shot to death while on fire at Liaoning demolition Posted: 26 Sep 2012 06:20 AM PDT An investigation has found that a police officer, Zhang Yan, acted in self-defense after he shot to death a protester resisting a forced-demolition in Panjin, Liaoning Province, who had set himself on fire before rushing at the cop with a sickle. Official accounts are supported by that of a villager who told the Beijing News that the villager, Wang Shujie, poured petrol over himself and lit it before attacking the police. [ more › ] |
China's bilateral "negotiations" in the South China Sea, Ctd Posted: 26 Sep 2012 05:30 AM PDT At the United Nation's General Assembly this week, Indonesian officials are doing their best to act as peace-brokers over tension in the South China Sea (also known as the Everything Belongs to China Sea). However, as illustrated by the above cartoon from The Economist, multi-party negotiations are only beneficial if you're not the party with the largest military and second-largest economy in the world. [ more › ] |
Eli Friedman on why boycotting Foxconn/Apple won't help Posted: 26 Sep 2012 04:15 AM PDT Gawker's Adrian Chen has an interview with China labour scholar and Cornell professor Eli Friedman on how do-gooder Western consumers overestimate the impact of boycotts by themselves and underestimate the effectiveness of direct action by Chinese workers. [ more › ] |
Human Flesh Engine Search Is On For Man Who Assaulted Toyota Corolla Driver In Xi’an [Graphic Video] Posted: 26 Sep 2012 04:00 AM PDT On September 15 in Xi'an, Shanxi province, an anti-Japanese protest got so out of hand that a Chinese man was partially paralyzed when someone clobbered him over the head with a piece of steel. Fifty-one-year-old Li Jianli's only crime? Driving a Toyota Corolla with his family. His wife futilely pleaded with the mob, "It was wrong of us to buy a Japanese car. We won't buy one ever again, OK?" We knew it was only a matter of time that a video would surface of the attack, and behold, it's above. Warning: the violence is graphic, a near-front-row view of a crazed man striking Li multiple times with a U-shaped bike lock. While the wife hysterically tends to her unconscious husband who's bleeding from the head, we hear the sound of thwacking, probably from people who failed to recognize the gravity of the situation and continued pounding the Corolla. One man in the crowd angrily shouts, "Can we first save this guy?" He speaks with a pretty heavy accent, but Shanghaiist's Kenneth Tan — who first posted this video — translates his next phrase as, "We are all Chinese, have you started to take him for a Japanese?" Of course we would never wish for someone's physical injury, even in the name of justice. But we don't have to care what happens to this guy if — when — he's found. Pictures of him after the jump. Youku has, unsurprisingly, censored the above video. Update: It's on ifeng though, embedded after the jump. |
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