Gay China seen through the eyes of three different media this week China Daily has an interview of two gay men and a lesbian that also features a big, bold picture of two young men kissing in Beijing. The first story of a 57 year old married man caught our attention:Tong Ge was married to a woman for more than 20 years, and has raised a son. But Tong is gay. "If I could turn......

World's hairiest man / pop-star bids to join Beijing Olympic torch relay Would you believe it? The world's hairiest man is a Chinese, and he is a rock-and-roll singer! Yu Zhenhuan, who has an average 41 hairs on every .4 square inch of his skin, and is now just recovering in Shanghai from an ear operation, says he wants to be part of the torch relay for next year's Beijing Summer Olympic Games. The......

Imagethief: Are Chinese journalists too credulous at press conferences? : Journalists everywhere have been guilty of occasional credulity. Nevertheless, it seems to me that China's media is at a rather different state of overall development than Western media. It also carries with it the legacy of having grown quite recently from filling a much different social role than Western media. This is not meant to be a comparative criticism, or a judgment on whether Chinese......

It seems that the TIME Magazine China Blog has been blocked by the Great Firewall of China (GFW), or "GFW-ed" to use the industry nomenclature. The blog normally covers a full-range of issues, including topics and analysis that local media wouldn't touch with a 10 meter 棍, and as a rule, TIME tends to "err on the side of free speech." However, evidently the blog took things a step too far for China's censors, when......

Shanghaiist may be accused of going with the flow on occasions, and one of those areas might be to do with our narrow mindset on the lovely, cute and adorable panda. We've applied our finest available powers of research to bring you the following snippets on the flipside of China's panda tail, and yes, it is mucky in there. So let us be accused of panda-ring no more. Yes, this is reporting with bite. The......

Danwei told us about The China Blog, a group blog by the China correspondents for TIME that launched this month. The writers are Simon Elegant (Beijing), Bill Powell (Shanghai), Austin Ramzy (Hong Kong) and Susan Jakes (Beijing). Looks like it could be a nice addition to the fold if they can keep posting on a regular basis. What really caught our attention, though, was the site's masthead. It reminded us quite a bit of the......

Like hairy crab? Be prepared to pay for it. The big ones are 20 percent more expensive this year, up to 110 RMB per kilo.Popular karaoke chain Party World (also known as Cash Box) has, in the words of China Daily, "jacked its prices up" ... by as much as 50 percent. The report says the hikes happened in Beijing -- not sure if the same has happened in Shanghai. China Daily seems to think......