Protest in Guangzhou: Why would you burn garbage?
Barbie Spa: For the cosmopolitan plastic beauty in you
Obama in China: Long gone, and still headlinin'
Lot o' Hotpot: Three Travellers
Dear Slate, yes there are chocolate bars in China
Not seeing the love in China
- Not Coming To A Theater Near You [Forbes] "Chinese movie fans will be able to see the newest Hollywood hit, Star Trek, in movie theaters across the country beginning this weekend. They won't have the same opportunity to see the next blockbuster, Angels & Demons, on the big screen-not Friday (when it opens in the U.S.), not soon, maybe not ever."
- List of possible embarrassing revelations in Zhao Ziyang Memoirs due out this summer [Jottings from the Granite Studio] "In reality, I doubt there will be anything in the memoirs that will truly shock the CCP, they’ve got their version of what happened and they’ll stick to it for as long as they are able to (ask John Edwards how well this strategy usually works, but I digress…)"
- Dancer paralyzed in fall, dashing Olympic dreams [CNN] "Liu Yan, regarded as China's top classical dancer, was to give the performance of a lifetime: She was to dance a solo at the opening ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Olympics. She was to perform a dance entitled "Silk Road," a piece intended to convey the rich cultural history of China. But it never happened."
- The Chinese Typewriter [The China Beat] "Tom Mullaney recently mentioned that he is currently writing a history of the Chinese typewriter, as actual and imagined object. He sent this piece introducing the subject, which moves between popular culture and the history of technology (how often are rapper MC Hammer, IBM engineers, diplomats from China, and Homer Simpson alluded to in a single story?), while illuminating some of the directions that thinking about the challenges involved in creating machines capable of reproducing Chinese characters have led."
- Shanghai's 2010 Expo: the 'Economic Olympics' [Christian Science Monitor] "Hosting a world expo was once a big deal. From London in 1851 to Chicago in 1893, these fairs put cities at the center of the world stage, just as Olympics and world cups do today. But today, within the West, the expo is the Rodney Dangerfield of major events. One reason they "don't get no respect" is that host cities - not to knock Knoxville, Tenn. - haven't always been top-tier ones in recent decades. So it's not surprising that the 2010 expo hasn't gotten much attention in the West. That's too bad, because this one, in Shanghai, is unusually ambitious."
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