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Why Are China’s Laobaixing So Mad?
The common man in China, laobaixing, seems really mad, and it’s left me wondering why. In the last week I have seen two fist fights break out of the same subway station at 8:50 AM. The first one left one man severely bloodied, while the second led to an arrest.
This is anecdotal evidence, but I [...]
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Is the Asian Crash a Precursor or Endpoint?
The last two days have not exactly been the 1929 crash, but it is looking pretty grim. With US markets closed for MLK Jr’s birthday, world markets, particularly in Asian, have been dumping like they are trying to cling to whatever value remains. If the markets stabilize in the next day or two, and investors [...]
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What Would Bloomberg Do?
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has not-so-privately been floating the idea of running for president as an independent. With the two races still fairly muddled, I thought it might be interesting to look at the circumstances that might facilitate him jumping in.
The first condition would seem to require at least one candidate with fairly high [...]
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Beijing 2008’s TOO AWESOME Theme Song
I’ve been watching a bit of CCTV 5, errrr, CCTV (Olympic Rings), and have seen the Olympic theme song video about a dozen times in the last two days. Never to be one to use hyperbole, I’m arguing that this is definitely one of the two greatest famous-people ensemble songs ever made.
Let me say straight [...]
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Excellent Podcast from This American Life
This American Life is probably the best podcast/radio show out there. This episode is one of the best of that select group. There have been some issues downloading the show in China, so since I was able to do it this week I’m sharing. If you want to donate to the show since it costs [...]
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China’s Answer to The Onion
My new favorite news source is a little paper called Beijing Today. Earlier this week I wrote about the article that turned me on to it, but the more I dig, the better it gets. (And yes, this will be the last post on these guys, although I strongly encourage you to read the paper [...]
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Rudy’s Big Opening
Isn’t it a little strange that people are essentially writing Rudy off because he has not won in the first three states, even though they always knew that he wouldn’t win early? In fact, it seems like his strategy is more or less playing out as planned, other than the fact that Ron Paul keeps [...]
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China’s Next President
China’s papers seem to be highly focused on the likely next Beijing leader, even if most of the world is watching the race for the White House. His name may not be as well known as Hillary Clinton (or even Fred Thompson) but Xi Jinping is the only sure-fire next president in the bunch.
Today the [...]
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Beijing Today “Chinglish” Article Confounds
I have been a big defender of Chinglish, but I came across a bizarre column in Beijing Today that talks about the perils of incorrectly using English. However, the story refers to a supposedly embarrassing phrase, which seems perfectly normal.
The newspaper, which despite its name is actually a weekly, has a regular feature that talks [...]
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A Beijing Cab Driver in 1973
There’s a little game I play when I get into taxis in Beijing. I always take a look at their registration numbers to get a sense of how long they’ve been on the job. The lower the number, the longer they’ve been working (although I discovered that this only started about 12 years ago, so [...]
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