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Our new favourite restaurant: Lǎo Kè Lè - 老克勒
'Tis the season for strawberries in Shanghai
Chinese fast food downtown
By JFK Miller
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Boy gains a dozen ex-wives via internet; hen electrocuted, causes blackout; elderly woman is actually elderly man; Scorpions in baggage scare airport security -- more weird shit than you can shake a stick at. There are still North Korean refugees trying desperately to escape the Dear Leader via China. Chinese philosopher Li Ming claims that he solved the famous four color theorem problem in mathematics (a proof of which came out in 1977) using the ideas of Laozi and German philosopher Immanuel Kant. Fang Zhouzi called him out on this, saying that if he had a proof that he ought to publish it in an academic journal. Li replied that he was willing to wage his life on this proof -- he said that the loser of this debate ought to commit suicide. Sounds like a smart guy. A bishop from China's underground Catholic church was released after spending ten years in prison.
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add to facebookSensing that our caffeine levels were low, we recently made trip to the convenience store at the end of the block. There we saw Christina Aguilera on the cover of a magazine on the bottom of the rack, which upon closer inspection was the new Chinese Rolling Stone. You might recall that we wrote about this back in late March, after the inaugural issue came out with Cui Jian on the cover. They ran into problems with the publications authorites back then, and it looked like that even coming out with a second issue was going to be a problem.
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"The Japanese have the kimono and the Koreans also have their traditional.clothing. But not the Han people, although they represent the largest of China's 56 ethnic groups," said Liu, who actively promotes cuture.
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