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A New Zealand-born contestant of the first series of Big Brother Australia, Gordon Sloan, has died in Beijing on a suspected heroin overdose.

For those of you who love generalizations of China in the Western media, we've got a doozie for you. The Chicago Sun-Times has a regular feature called "Agent of Travel" where readers will write in a travel related question and someone on the staff will track down the answer. Last week, the headline was "China wear tips: Casual clothes, comfortable shoes." Enjoy:

Shanghaiist received the same email press release about the new book Billions: Selling to the New Chinese Consumer that Danwei and China Herald did. The book is written by Tom Doctoroff, Greater China CEO of the J. Walter Thompson advertising agency. And the press release includes a list -- “Twelve Facts About the Confucian Consumer” -- that was "compiled by JWT to coincide with" the release of the book. Are all Chinese consumers Confucian consumers (whatever that means)? Are all Chinese consumers the same? Of course not. But they, obviously, are different than your average Western consumer, and we believe Doctoroff is trying to explain to his (mostly Western) audience just how they are different. We are publishing JWT's list below. As Danwei said, some of the items "ring true." Others can, and should be, contested. We'd love to hear what you have to say about this list, especially our Chinese readers:

Since information about the WTO protests in Hong Kong this past week was fairly scant in local publications, check out Western media sources such as this, or this (in English) or Chinese reports from Hong Kong such as this or this (may be inaccessible in China) to get a sense of what all those Korean peasants and Third World rabble-rousers are making such a fuss about. (Or you could have gone down there to witness it first hand, as Shanghaiist did.)

• Fudan's first course on homosexuality has been a resounding success, according to this Xinhua report (in Chinese), which states that there are never empty seats in the classroom and students are literally jammed into the aisles and out the doors. They've even started new curricula to meet the demand. Other interesting facts -- there are estimated to be 30 million homosexuals in China, and 80-90 percent are or are preparing to marry members of the opposite sex.
• A man from Dengfeng in Henan province, where the Shaolin temple is located, decided to name his recently born son Hu D, with the "D" being the actual English letter "D". The hospital and the local public security bureau weren't too keen on that, so made him choose a Chinese character for "D", which Hu did reluctantly. What's the big deal about this anyway? Some people said it was too Western, though in the West no one other than rappers have the privelege of using one letter names.
• A word to the wise: men, don't linger too long in the lingerie store or section, because old ladies and other sexually repressed and generally unpleasant people will give ya a hard time (article in Chinese). According to the story, men who either go alone or with their significant others to lingerie or underwear stores might find themselves the subject of unwelcome attention -- you know, the whispers, the stares, the cone-shaped hat, etc. Guys, maybe flipping through Victoria's Secret catalogue would be a better idea, and it's not a bad way to spend an afternoon, either.