Results tagged “longmarch”

Here's an interesting mash up between a Cultural Revolution-era Long March opera and "Ninja" by Jay Chou, created - if the video's to be believed - by Lee Tang (李唐) from Lu Xun Academy of Fine Art two years back. Is the song choice supposed to be a little ironic, considering one of the parties the Long March ended just around the beginning of the second Sino-Japanese War?

The space station, the Olympic pigs and white-collar wages Shanghaiist scans thousands of China headlines every single day, and believe us, we do want to believe all the news we read here in China, but every now and then, we come across something that makes us remind ourselves to take EVERYTHING we read with a great pinch of salt, no matter how authoritative the source may sound. Just yesterday, for instance, China Daily reported that...

Yes, that Cui Jian. The godfather of Chinese rock. The one some call "China's Bruce Springsteen." The guy they put on the cover of the first Chinese Rolling Stone. The guy who last year shared a Shanghai stage and accompanied (kind of) Mick Jagger and the Rolling Stones.

We didn't mean for our post about transportation card fees to be controversial — we were just reporting on a national news story — but the topic struck a chord ... and did all the attention cause the Shanghai transportation card fees to be lowered? Marc van der Chijs reports:

China's most popular search engine has compiled several top 10 lists for 2006, such as top 10 movies, top 10 TV series, top 10 fastest increasing search words, etc. Most of these are either based on the results in their search engine or statistics from their BBS posts.

The LA Times reports that China is going to "clean up" karaoke establishments by using a unified system that controls what songs are available to sing. The system is going on trial in three cities first: