Yesterday, Chinasmack posted up another one of those Chinese people hating on foreign guys who get with Chinese chicks translations which was... well, you've seen one, you've seen them all. But it piqued the curiosity of C. Custer at china/divide, who felt that a lot of the assumptions (especially things like disrespecting Chinese women and being a Mainland version of FILTH) just didn't seem to be true. So he devised a little poll (for foreigners) to see if at least the readership at china/divide was like that. So if you are a laowai, wai not try it out? more ›

We find a lot of interesting things in our daily romps around the internet. Some of them are more exiting than others, but the ones that really get us pumped are interesting Chinese language blogs. We usually just browse through sites like nciku or ChinaSmack's glossary for kicks, and we've certainly enjoyed the literal translations of Chinese phrases from Those Crazy Chinese, but we hadn't realized that Shanghai Daily has it's own word blog until recently. Check out some of their pretty great content: more ›

Chinasmack is currently working on translating some of the most popular Chinese internet memes from 2009, and they want your help to think of good ones the netizens of Netease may have missed. We've already seen some of our favorites: "What brother is eating is not noodles, but loneliness," "Believe in Brother Chun for everlasting life and "Jia Junpeng, your mom is calling you home for dinner"; but we were surprised by the omission of one of the best memes of the year, the infamous Grass Mud Horse. more ›

We always thought it looked kind of cool in old Yakuza/Triad gang movies, but when we actually hear about people cutting off their own fingers to prove a point, we're a little more disturbed than excited. A driver was caught in one of Shanghai's recent black cab dragnets, where police officers pretend to hire cars illegally functioning as cabs, and then fine them. more ›

If you've ever seen someone playing kaixin's Happy Farm (快乐农场), you've probably wondered to yourself how it got so preposterously named. From the intense clicking, sweating and furrowed brows of habitual "farmers," it would seem that playing happy farm is about as happy as a heroin addict searching for a fix. Besides the usual bouts of anxiety and paranoia over e-crops being stolen or malnourished, it seems that happy farm can also lead to losing your job, breaking up with your significant other, or even aborting your baby. Head over to chinaSMACK for a great translation of many, many more problems wrought from e-farming. Maybe people should get out more, but we'd recommend starting slow: perhaps Happy Farm in Reality? more ›

Yikes! Just when we thought we were past the hateful racism directed towards Lou Jing, another blatantly insensitive forum thread popped up on KDS. This time, a netizen caught a few pictures of a Black-Chinese couple on the metro, and posted them to the forum site for general amusement and jeering. ChinaSMACK has a translation of some of the posts, which range from mockable to just plain offensive. more ›

The title says it all: some guy is riding a scooter with a watermelon balanced on his head. Chinasmack has translated some of the Youku comments for us, but most of them are just people amazed that a guy is riding a scooter with a watermelon balanced on his head. Did you hear that? A GUY IS RIDING A SCOOTER WITH A WATERMELON BALANCED ON HIS HEAD. more ›

Oh no! Apparently we haven't been checking Chinasmack enough recently because we completely missed out on this Michael Jackson tribute. On July 12th, at 5pm, a bunch of fans gathered at People's Square on Xizang Lu and Nanjing Lu to “complete MJ's unfinished dance” in one minute. So for a total of 60 seconds, a crowd of people jamoned and moonwalked and crotch grabbed and acted completely crazy! more ›

We're betting it'll be one of the silliest, and thus funnest, dumb action movies since Terminator Salvation, and we look forward to spend hours making jokes at its expense for weeks to come. Before that though, we figure we'd give you a reminder on the details. more ›

Chinasmack and CNReviews (and us!) are organizing a movie night to watch Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (dun dun dun) especially for all blog readers around Shanghai. While normal ticket prices are around 80 to 100RMB, Fauna of Chinasmack has managed to negotiate it down to 65 RMB including free small popcorn and drink. more ›

Everybody's favorite portal for Chinese BBS happenings, chinaSMACK, has gone down in a Denial of Service attack suspiciously close to certain sensitive anniversaries. For those of you who don't need to deal with these kind of things, DoS attacks are when hackers flood a target's server in an attempt to keep it from functioning. Usually, it's done by either continuing to force the targeted computer to reset, or consume its resources so much that normal users are shoved out from accessing it. We don't really know how long chinaSMACK will be out of commission, or why it was brought down in the first place (though we have our suspicions - especially after reading this article), but we welcome anonymous tips to our tipline! Until we know, we'll just sit here desperately hoping it comes back soon. (Thanks Bryan!) more ›

The Chinese government announced that they are going to be making some changes to the simplified character system （简体字） currently used throughout mainland China. According to the Shanghai Daily, the short list of revised characters is already completed and will be released sometime in the near future. more ›