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Many Chinese minors are given corporal punishment by their teachers at school. Those who have extremely fragile self esteem choose to end their lives, which sounds an alarm: the nation’s youth need the couch, whereas its teachers need to have hearts.
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A migrant worker from China’s hinterland stands on a scaffold of a high rise without any protection. Behind him is Shanghai’s important financial district Lujiazui. The photo was taken by a Sina microblog user who goes by the name 熊貓元気. Most employers, who are city slickers that take advantage of rural migrants’ lack of information or [...]
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Mao Xinyu, Mao Zedong’s grandson. He was recently promoted to Major General in Chinese military, and has a Ph.D in military studies. He frequently appears on TV interviews and was often commended for his charisma and wisdom. People love him. People hail to him. Chinese netizens are fond of praising every single comment he makes. [...]
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People in southern and eastern part of China have begun scare-buying of table salt in fear of radiation brought by the nuclear crisis in Japan. In Guangzhou, capital city of Guangdong Province, table salt was sold out in all supermarkets and stores of the city. Some businesses took advantage of the panic and sold salt [...]
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A dressy woman placed her bag onto an expensive piano displayed in a piano store in Shanghai. The shop assistant who babied the display item told the woman that she was going to put the car somewhere else. Then the woman threw a great fit. What claims attention is, while both the shop assistant and [...]
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The video shows flight attendants on board a Capital Airlines flight from Beijing to Lijiang, Yunnan, dancing to the music while doing a regular safety demonstration. Unblocked version on Youku Youtube version However, according to some Youku commenters, Philippine Cebu Pacific Air did it before, and Capital Airlines has stole the idea. Selected comments from [...]
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From QQ March 15 is Consumer Rights Day. Chinese discontent with product and service quality often become highlighted and heatedly discussed on this day. A net user in Qingdao, a city in China’s eastern Shandong Province, said that a Lamborghini sports car that his company owned failed to be fixed by an official Lamborghini service [...]
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On January 27, Ministry of Tofu broke the story about CCTV passing off scenes from Top Gun in its fight jet news. Today, eagle-eyed Chinese net users called our attention to its conniving newscast. Yes, they botched it again. Both two separate news reports, one on the magnitude 5.8 earthquake in China’s southwestern Yunnan Province [...]
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The rapper(s) discusses Chinese inflation and rising Consumer Price Index (CPI), and tells how it affects people’s everyday life. The song is a parody of Taiwanese girl band S.H.E.’s Chinese Language (song title). The video features montage of several Stephen Chow’s movie excerpts. Stephen Chow is a very popular comedy actor/director in Greater China as [...]
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On March 11, Japan was rocked by a magnitude 8.9 (later revised to be 9.0) earthquake, which triggered several extremely powerful tsunamis that engulfed much of northeastern Japan’s coastline and razed countless buildings and villages. As of Monday morning, the official statistics put the death toll at 1,600. However, over 20,000 were unaccounted for, and [...]
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Nanjing Municipal Government is unleashing an offensive to the city’s thousands of 70-year-old trees for subway construction. The government promised to transplant them to somewhere else. However, furious citizens distrust the government. They get up a petition and call for a protest online. The protest effort has been obstructed by China’s largest social networking site [...]
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From Qianjiang Evening Post Every early spring, a foul odor fills the air of Dongyang, Zhejiang Province. Dongyang people call it “the smell of spring.” Yuck, it’s actually the smell of urine. And prepare yourself for this: Dongyang people boil eggs in boy’s urine and sell them at 1.50 yuan (23 cents) apiece. It sells [...]
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From Zhejiang Daily and Guangzhou Daily Sperm, or jing zi (精子) in Chinese, shares one character with the Chinese word for “essence” (jing hua, 精华). For over a thousand years, semen has been mystified by Taoism as bodily fluids that contain energy and even vital life force. On the other hand, the idea of donating [...]
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Cui Yongyuan seems to be one of the very few real people’s representatives who haven’t been losing contact with the grass roots amidst China’s political gatherings. Most Chinese know that the annual “two sessions,” or “two meetings,” are just a show put up by wheelers and dealers that is unlikely to bear any substantial fruit [...]
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From Huanqiu A special same-sex wedding ceremony was performed on Guanggu Car-free Street in Wuhan, Hubei Province on March 8. The wedding, which has no legal status in China, is actually a performance art organized by Wuhan’s homosexual rights group in a bid to express the community’s yearning for recognition and understanding from the masses. [...]
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From Mop The following post titled “Don’t mess with a French-learner” has been widely circulated on the Chinese Internet. Similar spin-offs about Chinese learning English, Japanese, Korean, and German all inherited its “Rant Genre”, or “Roaring Genre” (pao xiao ti, 咆哮体) But we found the French version is still the funniest among all. I started [...]
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A fruit gardener in Baoding, China’s northern Hebei Province, is being taught by the TV reporter to say in front of the camera “This year, the fruit gardens haven’t encountered a hail disaster. (今年的果园没有遭受雹灾.)” Because of his heavily accented Mandarin and probable undereducation, he repeated it several times before getting it right. If you can’t [...]
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From ENorth If he accepted all invitations to “international conferences”convened in China, Rao Zihe (饶子和), former president of Nankai University and member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), would be either at a conference or on his way to a conference all year round. Instead, the reknowned biologist has to be very selective. Among [...]
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The Givenchy gown Cate Blanchett wore to this year’s Academy Awards. Chinese rabbit character Tuzki
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From Guangzhou Daily, NetEase and Xinhua Chinese authorities are considering relaxing the current one-child policy to allow couples to have a second child in the next five years, said Wang Yuqing, deputy director of the National committee of Population, Resources and Environment. According to the nation’s experts, encouraging a second child is a pressing need. China’s current natural [...]
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