Posts Tagged ‘china’
Left that country.
I live in Hong Kong now. I left my apartment and life in New York and took two suitcases and a duffle bag with me. (I got a grant to work here for a year.)
About two weeks before I left, when I was home taking stock of all the things in my apartment I don’t [...]
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Tags: china, clinton hill, conversations, hong kong, irksome, strangers, wtf
Moo goo FAIL.
I’ve been so busy the past two weeks so I’ve been unable to post the awesome stories contributed by my awesome friends. This tidbit from about ten days ago is golden. I think Gohmert himself looks a bit embarrassed just before he speaks, knowing he is about to say something astoundingly stupid. [Note: WordPress is [...]
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Tags: china, chinese, food, politics, wtf
Sex theme park is a no-go.
I was tempted to title this post “Holy guacamole! Aiya!” because that’s how I felt upon seeing the image and accompanying text for this article in the NYTimes. It seems that plans for a sex-themed park got under way in Chongqing, but then got nixed by local authorities. Some snippets from the article:
Photographs on the [...]
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Tags: censorship, china, media, sex, wtf
Jackie Chan opens can of worms.
There’s a lively discussion going on at the “Room for Debate” blog at the New York Times. I’d heard about Jackie Chan’s remarks, but the issues brought up in the comments to this blog post provided so many different perspectives that I thought I should post them here. From questioning whether Jackie Chan was mistranslated [...]
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Tags: china, controversy, film, hong kong, media, politics, taiwanese
This blog needs more photos.
I wish I had all day to blog and find appropriate images to accompany my words. I realize how visually drab this thing is. (Because the sentiments expressed are so serious. I am a very serious person, obviously.) So here are some Asia- and Asian-related images I have on my computer at work that my [...]
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Tags: china, engrish, pandas
No shortage of news.
I swear, the NYTimes can’t get enough of all the things going on in China these days; China is popping up in headlines across sections. And I feel like the tone of the coverage is not without a hint of incredulity and a smirk. I can’t keep up with it all myself. Imagine if I [...]
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Tags: art, china, chinese, controversy, diplomacy, taiwan, tibet, travel
More collaboration.
Chou Kung-shin, the director of the National Palace Museum in Taipei, will be visiting the Palace Museum in Beijing in the hopes of trading art. She is asking to borrow particular Qing dynasty artworks to display in Taiwan for several months.
China’s imperial art collection was divided in 1949:
When the Nationalists boarded ships to Taiwan six [...]
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Tags: art, beijing, china, diplomacy, taiwan
Up in flames.
On the last day of Lunar New Year festivities in Beijing, a major new building burned from the ground up. Designed by architect Rem Koolhaas, the building housed a hotel, cultural center, and CCTV’s new headquarters. The images of the flames are kind of incredible.
Apparently this was built last year for the Olympics as [...]
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Tags: beijing, china, controversy, olympics, tv
This is so belated because I was sorta sick last week, and also I was having a dumpling jones that was eclipsing all other urges (i.e. my urge to blog, my desire to complete a task at work before allowing myself to go in search of dumplings). It’s my sister’s year. Oxy.
Now I am craving [...]
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Tags: beijing, china, chinese, diplomacy, food, pandas, taiwan
Ugh. China, why must you continue to make negative headlines.
Stop spying on everyone!
A group of Canadian human-rights activists and computer security researchers has discovered a huge surveillance system in China that monitors and archives certain Internet text conversations that include politically charged words.
Researchers in China have estimated that 30,000 or more “Internet police” monitor online [...]
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Tags: china, controversy, irksome, politics
So they knew about the milk all along. From the NY Times:
One of China’s biggest dairy producers received consumer complaints about its baby milk formula as early as December 2007 — much earlier than previously thought and nine months before the producer ordered a nationwide recall because of concerns that the formula had been adulterated [...]
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Tags: beijing, china, controversy, media, olympics, politics
50,000 babies are sick on milk.
That’s not even the worst of it. We lost David Foster Wallace. The economy’s in the shitter. LIRR employees are cheating the system. 53 dead in Pakistan. A sizable chunk of voters still think Obama has ties to Islam. I just broke a glass.
It’s hard to be optimistic on Monday morning when things seem rather [...]
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Tags: china, irksome, malaise, politics
Ni hao, and how!
Off to Shanghai today, my mother’s motherland. It’s been 7 years since I last spent time there and I’m sure I’ll barely recognize anything. I’ve hardly processed that I’m going there, thanks to last week’s stomach flu and this week’s deluge of work.
I’ll take plenty of photos and hope to come back with trinkets and [...]
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Tags: china, chinese, shanghai, travel
Shut up, Sharon Stone.
At the top of my gmail inbox, a headline from Yahoo! Entertainment keeps popping up like chronic ezcema.
Apparently Sharon Stone ran her mouth off at Cannes suggesting that the horrible Chinese earthquake is some sort of divine retribution.
She said in an interview with a CHINESE news source:
“I’m not happy about the way the Chinese are [...]
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Tags: china, diplomacy, irksome, media
VD = no China for you.
I have to apply for a visa to go to Shanghai in a month. They’ve really cracked down pre-Olympics. Not only has the cost of a visa skyrocketed (but only for Americans), they’re asking for a lot more documentation than usual. My single entry visa is going to be $130! My cousin’s lucky she hasn’t [...]
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Tags: china, diplomacy, shanghai
