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Now that the People's Liberation Army has been called in to battle the snow and the terms "war", "disaster" and "national crisis" are being used in association with the present weather conditions, we're feeling guilty for making a snowman yesterday in the park and secretly loving every flake.

PLUS brolly-toting Premier Wen and X-ray of Homer Simpson's brain!

Picture of Chinese soldiers from tigeranger1971.

Just in from a submission to Youku: Two days ago, a pre-op transsexual went on a one-(wo)man demonstration on the streets of Shenzhen, holding a placard that says, "I want a sex change, even if it means death!" (我要变性！死了都要变!) She attracted a huge crowd around her before she was eventually led away by someone from the public security bureau it seems.

August 1 was a strange day here at Shanghaiist. Our site was normal and accessible to pretty much the entire world, including China ... except for most people living in Shanghai. This was, obviously, somewhat of a concern to us, seeing how the majority of our readers are in Shanghai and all of our active contributors live in Shanghai -- thus, we were unable to update the site for you yesterday.

Imagine Team America fights with Team China -- what would that be like? This Sino-America Police Sanshou Championship (中美警察自由搏击大赛) may offer us some answers. (Sanshou is a kind of hand-to-hand combat developed by the People's Liberation Army in the 1960s. For more info, go here.) According to the website of The Ministry of Public Security of People’s Republic of China (in Chinese), this championship, organized byMinistry of Public Security and Public Security Office of Hunan Province, is divided into seven classifications, two of which are for ass-kicking females.

At approximately 4:22 pm Beijing time today, North Korea test launched yet another missile amidst a sea of international furor and condemnation after six fired earlier in the day.

The Independent reports that the People's Liberation Army is now banning heavy and chronic snorers from entering the military as part of a new set of rules pertaining to new recruits. Other new regulations include the banning of tattoos (including visible scars after tattoo removal) unless they are part of the traditional decorations of ethnic minorities in China, urine/drug tests, etc. In a Chinese report on the same issue, we also found that there are sundry other restrictions, such as one's weight -- to calculate the standard weight, it says to take your height in centimeters and subtract 110. For men, you're allowed to be at most 25 percent overweight or less than 15 percent underweight. For women, it's both 15 percent over and under.

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While the CNOOC/Unocal mess is still fresh in our minds (by “mess” we mean a resounding victory for those that have American interests at heart), another Chinese company, it seems, has found itself in the crosshairs of US law makers. Lenovo, a Chinese PC manufacturer, has raised a few eyebrows among congressional leaders with its impending sale of 16,000 desktop PCs to the State Department.

Well, we predicted it. In a prophetic piece of posting from the very early days of Shanghaiist’s existence, we raised the possibility of a James Brown concert in this city. Or rather, we suggested it would be a very welcome thing.