Shanghaiist: Share an apartment and break the law!

guest

Wed, 05 Sep 2007 15:43:56 +0800

Somebody think I am a pretty girl

guest

Wed, 05 Sep 2007 13:12:33 +0800

#13 What HAVE you been smoking?

guest

Tue, 04 Sep 2007 09:22:48 +0800

Hello, where can I obtain permission to reincarnate? Are the forms available online? I don't want to end up like my poor dog Doudou who was arrested last night because the local authorities determined that he had, in a previous life, been a splittest. And they also wrote up two flies in my apartment -- one for not acquiring proper documentation and another for formerly being a splittest, and, unrelatedly, a pedophile. Before they left, they issued a stern warning to all creatures great and small. Oh, I've found the forms. They are quite simple and have only one question: Are you going to reincarnate as the Dali-Lama? ( ) Yes ( ) No If you checked yes, please proceed to local police station for the special award celebration.

guest

Mon, 03 Sep 2007 20:37:28 +0800

Guest 12: Well if you have any more "Concert for a Free Tibet" statistics to repeat, please do so. BTW, I heard Alanis Morissette's set was smoking! In the meantime, little babies being chosen as theocratic leaders is a bad fucking idea, whoever does the choosing.

guest

Mon, 03 Sep 2007 18:59:21 +0800

#10, I'll have whatever you've been smoking.

Micah Sittig

Mon, 03 Sep 2007 08:47:40 +0800

I think the rules are meant to deal with "second landlords", those people who rent apartments, subdivide them into many small rooms, and rent those out to other people. Shanghai has a long history of doing this dating back to two centuries ago. Of course this law, like all laws in China, will be selectively enforced on a group (the one I mention above) that goes unmentioned in the official law so I wouldn't worry about it too much.

guest

Mon, 03 Sep 2007 00:56:03 +0800

Guest 9: Everybody knows the exiled Tibetan Leadership are going to claim that the re-incarnation of the Dalai Lama is a non-Chinese Tibetan. What an amazing coincidence that the cycle of re-birth should follow their political objectives! Re-incarnation of theocratic leaders with a divine right to rule is just a superstition, not real, and both sides use it to support their political objective of controlling Tibet. "China has banned Buddhist monks in Tibet from reincarnating without government permission" is a deliberate mis-reading.

guest

Sun, 02 Sep 2007 23:45:31 +0800

This would probably top the list of this week's Retarded China Today Top 10000, if it wasn't for.... In one of history's more absurd acts of totalitarianism, China has banned Buddhist monks in Tibet from reincarnating without government permission. According to a statement issued by the State Administration for Religious Affairs, the law, which goes into effect next month and strictly stipulates the procedures by which one is to reincarnate, is "an important move to institutionalize management of reincarnation." But beyond the irony lies China 's true motive: to cut off the influence of the Dalai Lama, Tibet 's exiled spiritual and political leader, and to quell the region's Buddhist religious establishment more than 50 years after China invaded the small Himalayan country. By barring any Buddhist monk living outside China from seeking reincarnation, the law effectively gives Chinese authorities the power to choose the next Dalai Lama, whose soul, by tradition, is reborn as a new human to continue the work of relieving suffering. At 72, the Dalai Lama, who has lived in India since 1959, is beginning to plan his succession, saying that he refuses to be reborn in Tibet so long as it's under Chinese control. Assuming he's able to master the feat of controlling his rebirth, as Dalai Lamas supposedly have for the last 600 years, the situation is shaping up in which there could be two Dalai Lamas: one picked by the Chinese government, the other by Buddhist monks. "It will be a very hot issue," says Paul Harrison, a Buddhism scholar at Stanford. "The Dalai Lama has been the prime symbol of unity and national identity in Tibet , and so it's quite likely the battle for his incarnation will be a lot more important than the others." So where in the world will the next Dalai Lama be born? Harrison and other Buddhism scholars agree that it will likely be from within the 130,000 Tibetan exiles spread throughout India , Europe and North America . With an estimated 8,000 Tibetans living in the United States , could the next Dalai Lama be American-born? "You'll have to ask him," says Harrison . If so, he'll likely be welcomed into a culture that has increasingly embraced reincarnation over the years. According to a 2005 Gallup poll, 20 percent of all U.S. adults believe in reincarnation. Recent surveys by the Barna Group, a Christian research nonprofit, have found that a quarter of U.S. Christians, including 10 percent of all born-again Christians, embrace it as their favored end-of-life view. A non-Tibetan Dalai Lama, experts say, is probably out of the question. Gotta love the dementedness of this place!

guest

Sun, 02 Sep 2007 01:43:20 +0800

What the fuck? I know hella fools who have recently rented apartments as roommates. If this law was actually widely enforced there would be rioting in the streets.

guest

Sun, 02 Sep 2007 01:05:17 +0800

this doesn't help gay couples either

guest

Sun, 02 Sep 2007 00:28:12 +0800

Looks like all of those shifty developers and their friends in the city came up with a way to fill up the vacancies in those incredibly overpriced and empty new apartments. nanheyangrouchuan

1

Sat, 01 Sep 2007 23:14:09 +0800

this country is full of shit. wtf.

zhwj

Sat, 01 Sep 2007 21:33:27 +0800

The Oriental Morning Post article (and other articles and editorials that use it as a source) makes reference to the draft rental regulations issued last December (link), which stipulated that the smallest rental unit is the single room (as opposed to a bed), and that rooms can only be rented to individuals or families. The present article doesn't say that the earlier provision was junked; rather, where the draft had 一间房间 this report has 一间房. I'd guess that the regs still pertain to room rental rather than flat rental. Still doesn't help the girlfriend/boyfriend situation, though.

guest

Sat, 01 Sep 2007 21:12:31 +0800

What the heck...this is just retarded...I don't even know what to say...

guest

Sat, 01 Sep 2007 20:43:08 +0800

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mark david elliott

Sat, 01 Sep 2007 19:07:02 +0800

If that rule is enforced I'll have to marry my roommate, or face bankruptcy.