This week in Shanghaiist
Shanghai Daily columnist Wang Yong in his Op-Ed, At last a manly man who can sing trumps girly boys:
For too long, many domestic TV entertainment channels have profaned music and the notion of competition by giving top honors to tomboys or sissy boys for being what they are - boyish girls and feminine boys - NOT for what or how they sing. The realm of music (which if not sacred should at least require some talent) suffered most when Li Yuchun, a tomboy whose voice was the weakest of all the finalists in a national singing contest in 2005, walked away with the "Super Girl" championship. Shi Yang, a boy who dances like a young woman, became a hot idol during the "My Show" contest in Shanghai last year.
Chen Feng, the chairman of Hainan Airlines, told a panel at the recent World Economic Forum in Singapore:
[Westerners were...] robbers and bandits before you became right-minded people.
Jeremy Haft's Op-Ed in the Wall Street Journal (via the TIME China Blog):
Polls show a majority of Americans believe China has mastered basic manufacturing -- and it's now barreling into our high-tech backyard. That's FALSE. As the product recalls demonstrate, China can barely make low-value goods reliably, much less higher-value ones. The problems are structural, not the result of a few bad apples. [Emphasis from Shanghaiist]
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Is there such a thing as a manly man in Shanghai? They're all a bunch of pussy-whipped pansies in this town. What do they say about Shanghainese men? Cooks and cleans, gives his pay cheque to his wife and eats his mother-in-law's leftovers...
Sorry, but did anyone really say anything unfair and/or mildly controversial here?
China is a culture that values a certain, feather-mulleted, emasculated man-boy, particularly in this town. Look in fashion mags, on billboard ads, and at all those pretty little pop stars. Girls who are boys who like boys to be girls.
White devils brought all of China's problems here with their opium and prostitutes. Before that, China had 5,000 years of technology, high-mindedness, and social harmony. Everybody knows that.
Oh, and Chinese products suck. They break easily, much like a young teenage boy's heart when he discovers that that cute little pop tart he's been worshiping at night when his mama and baba are sleeping actually has a penis.
Speaking from experience, guest #2?
What was the point of this blog entry?
bad, sexually confused China.
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