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| To Serve People: Global Times Harasses Torture Victim For Winning The German Peace Prize, That Prick Posted: 21 Oct 2012 09:13 PM PDT
By TAR Nation Liao Yiwu won the 2012 Peace Prize of the German Book Trade, causing Global Times columnist Shan Renping to act like a baby, a baby in sore need of being bashed against a tree. The media went balls-to-the wall, calling Liao insane for, perhaps overzealously, shouting at his acceptance speech, saying China was an "ever-expanding garbage dump" and "an inhumane empire with bloody hands" (note: true, but who hasn't been to a bachelor party like that). At the end, he shouted "the empire must break apart" six times. What did China's propaganda rags do? Raise your hand if you know the answer… That's right class: they called Liao Yiwu a "bigot," accused him of being insane, affronted the whole of Germany, and bragged about the Nobel Prize win with the righteous approach of a masturbating hyena. Let's start with Shan Renping's words:
"Unable to deal with the normal competition in Chinese society"? Okay Renping, let's talk a little about Liao Yiwu's "normal competition." You see, whether or not he's a good writer (note: he definitely fucking is. Get Corpse Walker on Kindle here), Liao Yiwu's life is a perfect example of how you can't disagree with the party and get a fair shake. Get ready for a big sexy paragraph. Yiwu barely survived Mao's Great Famine, suffering from an array of ailments, not to mention the lack of, ya know, food. His father was denounced as a counterrevolutionary during the Cultural Revolution (Mao's great idea to set human history on fire), so his parents divorced to keep the kids safe. But, lo and behold, his mom was caught using the black market (i.e. trying to sell some cloth to get food for her kids). As a result she was "paraded, along with other criminals, on the stage of the Sichuan Opera House in front of thousands of people." I can't imagine why this guy held a grudge. After high school, he worked as a truck driver and cook, traveling the Sichuan-Tibet Highway and becoming a well-known poet in the process. His work in underground magazines (and everyone else's for that matter) were called "spiritual pollution" by the Party authorities. After publishing "The Yellow City" and "Idol," his home was searched, and he was repeatedly interrogated. The magazines he published in were subsequently closed and punished. Afterwards he was arrested, along with six friends and his pregnant wife, and Liao was given four years imprisonment in 1990. Under torture in the prison system, including torture with electric batons, being forced to stand in the sun for hours and having his hands tied behind his back for 23 straight days, he started to go mad (and grow large gross abscesses in his armpits). The other prisoners gave him the nickname "the big lunatic," because prisoners aren't known for their creativity (which is surprising as being creative in China gets you locked up). The torture got so bad that he tried to kill himself by bashing his head against the wall. He got out in 1994 due to protests from the West, only to find that, in his absence, his wife had absconded with his child. He spent four years largely destitute until he published The Fall of the Holy Temple, which ended with the publisher being forbidden from publishing anything for a year (on the orders of a vice-premier). Destitute again, he worked odd jobs and published Interviews with People from the Bottom Rung of Society . It was, in the words of the Asia Literary Review, "sanitized" for publication, becoming a massive hit in China. After all of his tortures, loss and imprisonment, he stayed in China – Chengdu – under police surveillance with his wife until 2010 when he wrote to Angela Merkel herself to get permission to leave the country, which was granted. He was denied exit again to the US prior to the release of an English translation of his book. At the PEN Festival, Salaman Rushdie left an empty chair on the stage for him, writing to Liao and saying, "Quite simply, we miss you." The Communist Party forced him to sign a declaration that he would not publish any "illegal books" abroad. He escaped by land into Vietnam, then Warsaw, then Berlin. Why? In his own words, "Personal freedom and freedom to write." That's normal competition, is it? Shan Renping pretty much just went to the People's Daily compound and opened his mouth so that they could make sure that it did, indeed, smell like CCP cock. Adding up all of the political persecution, imprisonment, torture, marginalization and general fucked-upness of life for the curious in an intellectual graveyard, it doesn't really sound fair to me. As I have none, I can only guess that being someone with talent in China carries with it consequences. As Liao Yiwu put it, "flee, sit in prison or shut up." So, let's see how this disgusting piece of detritus, Shan Renping, goes on to insult Yiwu from his ivory tower at GT (ivory made from dissident bones).
The "control his own emotions" jibe is perhaps better put in the Global Times "Voices" where they quote Kong Qingdong, professor at the Chinese Department of Peking University, when he says, "People have the freedom to be schizophrenic," which, apart from being impertinent, is untrue. Laio Yiwu spent four years in prison, decades under surveillance and lives in exile because of his "schizophrenia." Moving on:
Goodness me? The "Chinese" looking down on a country in the West? Shock! Horror! Chaos! Dogs and cats living together! Sarcasm! There you go, blame an entire country for a prize, just like the Nobel. If I'm ever in ill-repute with the Communist authorities, the New Haven 4th Grade School Science Fair will surely be a "Westerner-loving charade" in the eyes of the Chinese propaganda rags.
It doesn't count as increasing "rights and dignity" if you're the one who took them away in the first place, not to mention the daily savaging "rights and dignity" take in the propaganda rags. If I beat a guy up, steal his car, drive it into a telephone pole and poop in his back seat before returning the car, I did not "increase" his car ownership. "Zeitgeist," though, is a good word. I like that word. Where does that come from again?
For those of you unfamiliar with the Communist Party's official line on China's dissidents, they think Western countries collect them like baseball cards to use against "China." Shan Renping has done this so often, he has a little box of self-made dissident cards under his bed that he plans to trade for things like fresh-smelling soaps and nozzles — you know, douche-related materials. Also, Liao Yiwu doesn't consider himself a refugee of any sort. When asked if he was a refugee by New Yorker reporter Philip Gourvitch, Liao said, "I'm excited about political developments in China, and looking forward to a Jasmine Revolution. I am quite sure that Hu Jintao may be a refugee some day, but not Liao Yiwu."
Shan Renping's mind is so narrow you could stab someone with it, preferably him. Dissidents aren't more hateful when they leave, they're just allowed to say stuff and not get thrown in prison. No one wants to be hateful when speaking out, or, as Liao Yiwu said in the New York Review of Books, "My writing is illegal… I don't know. I'm just writing something and now have broken their law. I don't want to break their laws. I am not interested in them and wish they weren't interested in me." Cards on the table, Liao Yiwu probably is not stable. He attempted suicide. When his magazine poems were banned, he belted them out in audio recordings in chants as if in religious fervor. He is a bit shouty (big lunatic). Perhaps he's completely nuts. Luckily, those are the kind of writers everybody likes. JD Salinger was so nuts he chose to be a recluse in New Hampshire of all places, Philip K. Dick thought "pink beams" of light were giving him messages, Hunter S. Thompson was so crazy that he convinced the world it was a choice, Poe fucked the shit out of his underaged cousin/wife and had hallucinations, Kurt Vonnegut famously took up smoking as a "classy" way to commit suicide, and Hemingway ate two barrels for breakfast one day, probably because he thought he was just that badass. So, maybe being a bit loud about an award isn't all that terrible. Still, on behalf of the free world, thanks for another inspiring genius, China. We're happy to have them. Also this week, Japan can eat a dick, South Korea can eat a dick, Japan can eat a dick, America can eat a dick, Japan can eat a dick again, the ASEAN (also America) can eat a dick, America can eat a dick, Japan can eat yet another dick, America can eat another dick, Japan and South Korea can eat a dick, and ("evil") America and Japan can eat a dick. I wonder why China is a diplomatic pariah. For a really, really good laugh, a laugh that makes you want to throw up and kill yourself, check out, "Poll: Chinese public satisfied with selection of officials." |
| WIN Tickets to the Midi Electronic Festival Posted: 21 Oct 2012 08:24 PM PDT |
| Lotus Eatery: A Favorite Yunnan Spot Expands to a Second Location Posted: 21 Oct 2012 08:04 PM PDT Date: Oct 22nd 2012 10:03a.m. Contributed by: miss_ng_in_action We love the Yunnan food at Lotus Eatery's original location on Yangzhai Lu. They've now expanded to a second location not too far away on Dingxi Lu. |
| Watch: Rehearsals begin for Shaolin festival Posted: 21 Oct 2012 09:00 PM PDT Performers rehearse for the 9th International Shaolin Wushu Festival in Zhengzhou, Henan province. We're told this is going to be bigger than the Beijing Olympic opening in 2008. [ITN News] [ more › ]        |
| Watch: BEAN Shanghai goes Gangnam for "Pretty in Pink" charity gala Posted: 21 Oct 2012 06:40 PM PDT The massive success of PSY's "Gangnam Style" music video, which recently hit the half-billion views mark on Youtube, has inspired a number of spinoffs around the globe -- including China. There's been a Hong Kong Style, Laowai Style and even a Yangpu Style, just to name a few. BEAN Shanghai also joined in on the Gangnam Style action, doing PSY's now famous horse dance in various spots around Shanghai to promote the upcoming Pretty in Pink Breast Cancer Awareness Charity Gala. Video for those in China after the jump. [ more › ]  |
| Japanese Coast Guard Rescues 64 Chinese Sailors From Burning Freighter Near Okinawa Posted: 21 Oct 2012 06:54 PM PDT A Chinese cargo ship, the Ming Yang, caught fire last Saturday about 150 kilometers southeast of Okinawa and required assistance from rescue boats. Japanese rescue boats. All 64 seamen on board were rescued before 4 am, with only three suffering minor injuries, the coast guard said, according to South China Morning Post. China and Japan, of course, have a frosty maritime relationship, notably over the Diaoyu Islands. But as the Japan Daily Press notes, "Xinhua, reported on Sunday evening that a rescue ship was being dispatched to pick up the 64 crew members from the Japan Coast Guard. No doubt they will bring a fruit basket and thank you letter in appreciation for rescuing their Chinese countrymen, despite the two countries' tensions that have resulted in physical violence to Japanese residing in China in the previous weeks." No doubt. |
| ‘Foreign Affairs Focus: China’s Political Transition with Damien Ma’: Foreign Affairs Posted: 21 Oct 2012 06:25 PM PDT Excellent analysis by Damien Ma of the Eurasia Group, interviewed by Foreign Affairs, about: '…China's political transition, economic slowdown, and social inequality. Ma unpacks U.S.-Chinese relations, the Diaoyu (Senkaku) Island dispute, and the potential economic consequences of the Chinese political handover.' |
| Flamin' hell! The fire station is on fire! Posted: 21 Oct 2012 07:00 PM PDT |
| Watch: Boy wedged between buildings after falling from balcony Posted: 21 Oct 2012 06:00 PM PDT A boy is saved by rescue workers in Jinhua, Zhejiang province, after getting wedged between two buildings when he fell from a balcony upstairs. [ITN News] [ more › ]  |
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| How To Handle Chinese Negotiating Tactics. Part Two. Posted: 21 Oct 2012 04:36 PM PDT By: Steve Dickinson This is Part Two of what is going to be a three part series on Chinese negotiating techniques. Part One can be found here. This series is intended to better equip you in how to handle Chinese negotiating tactics. Following on my earlier post on Chinese negotiating techniques, in this post I will discuss three additional and common techniques used by Chinese companies to drive foreigners mad during the contract negotiation process. In Part Three, and the final part of this series, I will discuss two more common negotiating techniques employed by Chinese companies. Before I start, consider why these issues are important. I describe below a set of negotiating techniques that are fundamentally unfair. They typify what we would call bad faith negotiation. Chinese companies have been using these techniques since the 80′s. In the old days, they justified these tricks and traps by the fact that they were a poor, inexperienced, developing country that needed to defend itself against the superior power and experience of developed country negotiators. Times have changed. China is now the second largest economy in the world. Many predict that by 2020 China will be the largest economy in the world. In this situation, there are two stark choices presented to world business people. The first is that Chinese companies will be held up to the highest standards of conduct expected of all international companies. This means that hard negotiation is accepted, but that bad faith negotiation is not. The second is that non-Chinese companies will accept being pulled down to the Chinese standard of bad faith negotiation. My own view is that the first alternative is better. However, to achieve the first alternative, foreign companies must first understand how Chinese companies negotiate and then they must not tolerate bad faith negotiating techniques. However, in my experience, in their eagerness to make the deal, foreign companies seem more likely to follow the second alternative. In that case, this discussion will at least serve to make clear what is happening during that unfortunate process. Here are three important Chinese negotiating techniques that everyone should learn to recognize (two more will follow in Part Three of this series): 1. Death by a thousand cuts. The Chinese company is presented with a carefully drafted written contract. The Chinese company responds with a reasonable number of objections to the contract language or to the contract terms. It seems odd to the foreign party because the list seems random. The parties negotiate the issues and reach solutions. The foreign side naturally assumes that the negotiation process is complete and expects the next step will be to move on to execution and implementation of the contract. The actual result instead is that the Chinese party provides a new set of randomly selected objections and requests for changes. The foreign side again negotiates, reaches a resolution and expects execution and implementation. Instead, the Chinese side returns with a new list of issues. This time, however, the list of issues includes changes and revisions to matters that were already decided in previous rounds of negotiation. Often, these requests are hidden among other trivial matters in the hope that the foreign side will either fail to notice or will concede this time due to a change in negotiators or simply out of fatigue. In cases where the Chinese side has been forced to concede on important matters, the death by a thousand cuts round of demands from the Chinese side will be extended by the Chinese side indefinitely. That is, the Chinese side will not stop until they get what they wanted at the beginning. This technique provides several unfair benefits to the Chinese side. In negotiating the initial set of objections from the Chinese side, the foreign side will often make concessions that weaken their position. This was done as part of the normal negotiating give and take and was done on the assumption that both sides have made concessions to make the deal. However, when the Chinese side comes back with new demands, they have already extracted concessions from the foreign side and are now seeking additional concessions. The plan of the Chinese company is to simply wear down the foreign side so that it will finally concede on important points merely to get the deal done and move on. This is very dangerous for the foreign side and is a result that must be strongly resisted. Note that the Chinese negotiators are often very clever at mixing important issues together with trivial issues and at hiding important changes with seemingly minor changes in wording. Fatigue and changing negotiation staff from the foreign side will often allow these matters to slip through at the very end of the negotiation process. The foreign negotiator must make sure to avoid death by a thousand cuts. The way to do this is to be very strict with the Chinese side. The Chinese side must be told very clearly: you have only one chance to comment, so make sure all your comments and objections are included in your first communication. Later comments will be ignored. Of course, the Chinese side will ignore this rule and will still come up with additional comments even after having been told that they will be ignored. The only way to deal with this is to live up to the commitment. Tell the Chinese side that the contract is now "take it or leave it." The problem with this is that as often as not the Chinese side will decide to "leave it." That is, the Chinese side will abandon a deal that would be good for both sides just because it cannot tolerate not forcing the last remaining concession down the throats of the foreign side of the deal. In this setting, the foreign side has to be the party that does a rational analysis. Often, the final resolution can be achieved if the foreign side concedes on several minor issues, giving the Chinese side the impression that it won the battle. 2. What if gravity stops? Most already know that Chinese companies are uncomfortable with well-written complete contracts that tie them down on most or all key issues. Chinese companies generally prefer vague contractual commitments that allow for constant re-negotiating and clarifying of points as the transaction progresses. Of course, this is exactly what the foreign side seeks to prevent in negotiating a written contract. This basic attitude by Chinese companies often produces an odd result when a Chinese company is forced to deal with a clear written contract. In response to clarity, the Chinese company often will demand "hyper-clarity." Since Chinese companies inhabit a world where good faith negotiation and commercially reasonable contract interpretation is unknown, they will insist that every contract provision be specified in minute detail. Though this can be tolerated, in extreme cases they will move on and demand a provision for every possible far-fetched and unreasonable circumstance that could affect the contract situation. At the extreme, they will start coming up with scenarios like: "What if gravity stops and all workers in the factory are levitated exactly three feet from the ground, making it impossible to walk around the factory floor? What do we do then?" If you provide a solution, they will then come back and say: "OK, now what happens if they are levitated exactly four feet from the ground." This then goes on in an endless sequence, much like death with a thousand cuts. In other cases, they will interpret a perfectly reasonable and common boilerplate contract provision in a way that assumes that the foreign party intends to act in a bad faith and unreasonable manner to catch the Chinese side in some form of drafting trick. The thing that makes this technique nearly impossible to counter is that the Chinese side will never propose a solution to any of the fanciful problems they raise. Normally, they will simply raise the issue without a solution. That is, they will simply provide a list of "what if" statements. More problematically, they will sometimes propose an obviously bad-faith and commercially unreasonable "solution" on the assumption that the foreign proposed "screw job" can only be countered by an equally malicious Chinese screw job. No contract can be negotiated under these circumstances. When a foreign party senses the start of the "what if" trend in negotiation, the foreign party must step in very forcefully to stop it. It is dangerous even to entertain the first round of "what if" questions and proposals, because discussion of the first only encourages the Chinese side to think of more progressively far fetched scenarios. Since this kind of negotiation is by definition an exercise in bad faith, the only thing the foreign side can do is to refuse to participate. You have to say: "If you think that is our intention, and if you think a court would enforce that kind of bizarre interpretation of our perfectly standard language, then there is clearly no basis for us to move forward on this contract." If the Chinese will not come back to reality, you should pack your bags and go home. I can assure you that things will not get better over time. 3. The headless horseman. Several of our readers have commented on their frustration with the "headless horseman" negotiating technique. This technique is used all over Asia, not just in China. This technique is used in face-to-face negotiations conducted in China. At great trouble and expense, the foreign side sends a negotiating team to China. Usually, preliminary negotiations have been completed and the plan is to finalize the deal in a final, conclusive negotiating session. During the negotiation, the Chinese side then announces that none of their negotiators have the authority to make binding commitments for the Chinese side. At the end of each day of negotiation, the Chinese negotiators must return to the Chinese company and must request permission from their "boss" on whether or not any decision on any major point is acceptable. This is often a shock to the foreign negotiators, since their team has the authority to make binding decisions on the part of the foreign company. For the foreign negotiating team, it makes no sense to negotiate with people who cannot make decisions. This headless horseman negotiating is not just a reflection of the poor way in which Chinese companies are managed. Chinese companies use this technique to gain a negotiating advantage against the foreign side. In each round of negotiation, the foreign side will make concessions in response to corresponding concessions from the Chinese side. This is done as part of a balancing of risks and analysis characterizing face-to-face negotiation. The Chinese side then takes everything back to the office and carefully reviews the day's results in the calm and privacy of their office. Often, there is no discussion with the "boss." Rather, the negotiating team conducts its own careful review and then comes back the next day with a revised response. The essence of the approach is that the foreign side does not get a chance to take back their own agreements. Only the Chinese side has this opportunity, using the excuse that "the boss would not agree." This is just a form of cheating, in the same way that consulting a chess computer between moves would be considered cheating in a live chess tournament. Either the negotiations are live or they are not. It is not consistent with normal commercial practice to make one party negotiate "live" while the other party has the opportunity to analyze and then pick and choose. Headless horseman negotiation is a form of bad faith and should not be tolerated by the foreign party. Since this technique is so common in China, the foreign party should confirm the situation before even considering face-to-face negotiation in China. If the Chinese side is going to use the headless horseman technique, the foreign side has two choices. It can send a work group to China that is also not qualified to make any binding decisions. The two work groups can then seek to develop a common program, subject to review by both companie' senior management at some later date. Alternatively, if the Chinese side insists on binding negotiations, then the foreign side must insist that it will not participate unless the Chinese negotiating team contains at least one person who can make on the spot binding decisions on behalf of the Chinese company. If the Chinese company will not agree, do not come to China. If the Chinese side agrees and then changes the rules during the negotiation, terminate the negotiation, pack your bags and take the next plane out of China, or at least take the next train to Hong Kong. |
| Posted: 21 Oct 2012 04:03 PM PDT  A few links to start off your day: Remaking the incoming first lady, reversing the brain drain, and Kevin Rudd the comedian [ more › ]  |
| Posted: 21 Oct 2012 02:06 PM PDT  Pencil This In is all the things you'd want to do this Monday through Thursday. This week, Sub-Cinema shows the absolutely awesome 'The Shining', and on Wednesday, the second annual Irish Drama Showcase kicks off. On Thursday night, you can practise drinking and getting up the next day without a headache for Halloween, all made possible with the zombie (pub) crawl. Or you go to Shelter and have a good electronic time with Ben Huang. And if you're a real lady, you may also want to go consider G Plus to check what's really hiding in the champagne glasses for free! Read on for all the details, or check out our calendar for more! [ more › ]  |
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| Getting Money Out Of China. That’s Illegal. Posted: 21 Oct 2012 10:39 AM PDT Got a call the other day from a United States lawyer who had a Chinese client that wanted to buy a very expensive house in that other lawyer's big city. The lawyer's Chinese client had said that Chinese law limited them to taking only $50,000 out of China and so this lawyer was calling me to see how they might take out a lot more than that. We get calls like this fairly often. Sometimes they are from lawyers with Chinese clients. Other times they are from expats or foreign companies that have built up a large stack of illegal earnings in China and want our help to get it out. Our answer to all of them is always the same. Why would you call a lawyer to ask how you can violate the law? What you are seeking is not legal help, but a way to skirt the law and there is no way we are going to help in that. To the foreigners, we offer to help figure out some basis for being able to claim that their money was acquired legally and to help work through the tax issues, all of which when done to the satisfaction of the Chinese authorities would free up their money (probably now greatly reduced) to leave. To the Chinese nationals, we suggest that they retain a Chinese licensed lawyer to assist them in securing Chinese government approval to be able to ship out more than $50,000. China Real Time Report recently ran a fascinating post, "The Mechanics of Moving Cash Out of China," about criminal proceedings in Hong Kong against Yan Suiling, a Chinese national who had sent around USD$2 million to Hong Kong for investment. Note that for these purposes (and just about all legal purposes involving businesses or individuals) Hong Kong is not considered legally separate from the Mainland. The post notes how China's capital control regulations forbid individuals from moving more than $50,000 out per year, but that's "a rule that's often evaded," frequently by using Hong Kong. The post explains how Ms. Yan got her money into Hong Kong:
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We are aware of less sophisticated ways as well, all of which are illegal. One is to just take relatively small quantities of money out of the country on your person again and again every time you leave. Another is to just take a giant wad of cash across a border. We are aware of one company that wired hundreds of thousands of dollars to someone outside of China as an advance payment for that person to get millions of dollars of cash out of China. The person ended up keeping both the wired money and the millions of dollars and what is the company to do at that point? The bottom line here is quite simple. If you are a foreign company making money legally in China and paying your taxes, getting money out of China is not so tough. But if you want to skirt the rules, be prepared to get yourself a really good criminal lawyer. What do you think?
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| CNOOC’s Bid For Nexen And The Canada Dilemma Posted: 21 Oct 2012 10:47 AM PDT The question before the house is this, is Canada's relationship with China qualitatively different to its relationship with Malaysia. On the answer to that may well hang the answer to the question, is the Canadian government's blocking of the $5.2 … Continue reading →  |
| Sign up for the Shanghaiist Hairy Crab and Sex Museum Tour now! (and other food events) Posted: 21 Oct 2012 09:30 AM PDT  Shanghaiist Hairy Crab and Sex Museum Tour: We've already provided five irrefutable reasons why you should sign up for Shanghaiist's Hairy Crab and Sex Museum Tour on Nov. 3-4, but we'll condense it down to two. Sweet-meat, roe-oozing, 100% bonafide hairy crabs right at the source, Yangcheng Lake, and an inside look at the sex lives of the ancients - jade dildos, bondage, the whole nine "inches" - before the sex museum's lease is up. Itinerary and sign up sheet here! [ more › ]  |
| The Situation Is Excellent: The Week That Was At Beijing Cream Posted: 21 Oct 2012 08:59 AM PDT October 15 – October 21 Weekend content is king: vote for your least-favorite Gangnam Style parody, China Style vs. Laowai Style, if you haven't already. And TAR Nation and RFH wondered: what if The Newsroom were made in China? Two racing Ferraris ran into one another in Shaanxi, an incident that miraculously yielded no deaths. A foreigner lost his mind and began randomly attacking Chinese people in Guilin. And two foreigners in Shanghai confused a little girl selling them flowers for "six" kuai for a prostitute soliciting "sex." Did you know Beijing has dogfighting? A ridiculous rappeler kicked a man out of committing suicide. Mitt Romney and Barack Obama both had their share to say about China, but Romney was particularly terrible. The story of the week remains the one about the man, his handicapped mother, their dog named Butterfly, and their 3,000-plus-mile journey by foot from Beijing to Yunnan. A 16-year-old girl was transformed by medication into a 40-year-old man: here are the shocking photos. A man in Shanghai required a doctor to remove a nine-inch dildo from his stomach (hmm, how'd it get there?). And we figured out that the riot in Luzhou earlier this week was probably caused by a rumor, while Yang Rui apologized to Melissa Chan. TAR Nation's To Serve People column made its return, while Xinhua continued being its usual self. Please don't change, Xinhua. Comment of the Week:
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