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On Wednesday we told you about how the recent comments of Singapore's elder statesman Lee Kuan Yew made during his latest trip to the US have caused an uproar among Chinese netizens. Aside from his more controversial statements that Asia needs the United States to counterbalance a rising China and that the US needs to be "an important part" of any new East Asian architecture, Lee also gave a wide-ranging interview to the Charlie Rose Show of the PBS network. China featured heavily in the 60 minute interview which kicked off with Lee's proclamation that the United States may have half a century left as the world's dominant power. In the new world order, said Lee, the US would have to make space for China and India at the top table of the world. For the next hour or so, sit back with us and gaze into Lee Kuan Yew's crystal ball as he looks back into the past and divines the future. As always, if you're in China and still not able to watch Youtube videos, now is the time to get your VPN. Meanwhile, a full transcript of this interview is available here.

Because we know you can't get enough of timelapse videos, here's another one by Shanghai newbie, Joe Nafis, who tells us that he's been in town for just a month and jobless. We're totally amazed that all this was possible with the humble Canon A540. Anyone out there wanna give this guy a job?

For those of you that missed yesterday's big party, here's an awesome 3.5 minute timelapse version by Dan Chung of The Guardian which is just absolutely sublime and splendiferous. Some have said this is the "only version of China's National Day Parade you need to watch". We agree (and take that, CCTV!).

The title says it all: some guy is riding a scooter with a watermelon balanced on his head. Chinasmack has translated some of the Youku comments for us, but most of them are just people amazed that a guy is riding a scooter with a watermelon balanced on his head. Did you hear that? A GUY IS RIDING A SCOOTER WITH A WATERMELON BALANCED ON HIS HEAD.

Did you know China had a burgeoning parkour scene? We didn't either until 56minus1 discovered a bunch of online Chinese parkour groups, communities and forums.

Fast and the Furious: Shanghai Shift?

Popular bar matron Cotton Ding, owner of Shanghaiist favorite Cotton's, sits down with Daedalum Films to talk about her story - how she left her home in rural Hunan for the big city, the lessons she learned along the way to becoming a successful bar owner, and what challenges she sees on the horizon.

Funny.

While some of us spent Chinese New Year's Eve enjoying grilled seafood on a beach in the Philippines, Luis Tapia of Shanghai-based Daedalum Films was lugging his camera to a Shanghai rooftop to record the fireworks. The results, as you can see above, are beautiful (be sure to watch in HD). Thankfully, the video does not include actual sound (you probably got enough of that last night). Instead, the soundtrack is "El Pico" by Ratatat. You can buy that song on iTunes. Enjoy.

"In 10 years its population doubles to a seething 7 million people!"

Via City Weekend we learn that the documentary film about last year's Converse-sponsored (and Split Works organized) Love Noise rock music tour of China is now viewable at a DVD player near you. Love Noise put Beijing bands PK14 and Queen Sea Big Shark on a converted bus and sent them on a two-week, six-city tour during the height of Olympics craziness last August. The trailer to the Love Noise film is embedded in this post, and after the jump you'll find a slew of related clips, uploaded to YouTube six days ago. The director's first name is Hammer, so it's got to be good.

Danwei directed us to the embedded six-month old video of a short local NBC News piece on a Chinese-made three-wheel "car" available from a dealer in Webster, New York (it's actually available in several places in the U.S., like Michigan). The Webster dealer (we think this is his MySpace page ... yes, MySpace) claims women love the Wildfire WF650-C. The jury is still out on that one.

UPDATE: The best costumes for the evening will be awarded great prizes from Sherpa's! 1,000 RMB will go to the top male and female costumes, and the runners-up will get a case of Brooklyn Lager! Start getting your costumes ready today! (More details here.)

As part of their "Toxic series" VBS TV took a trip to the "world's most polluted town", Linfen, in China's Shanxi province. In six episodes David Feinberg reports on a city that is experiencing the dark side of China's economic boom, in the form of massive pollution.

Summed up in 3 minutes and 37 seconds.

Mildly amusing video called Chasing the Dragon - Mysterious Beijing.

The latest from ESPN.com here and here. And the latest from Google News.

AP: US flag bearer Lopez Lomong avoids the tough questions

Is the air quality at the Beijing airport really that bad? The New York Times has the story (and some photos):

Right: In Dujiangyan, heavy wreckage, collapsed buildings, great grief and a city that's been ground to a halt.

Shanghai-based Daedalum Films takes you on a walk through the Song Qing Ling Memorial (宋庆龄陵园), a little known cemetery in western Shanghai home to the remains of Song Qing Ling, numerous other Chinese personalities — and scores of foreigners who came to Shanghai mostly during its early boom years in the mid-1800s and early 1900s, some identified by simple gravestones, and some anonymous.

We can see it now. Fast-forward to 2010. An ancient Tibetan god called Gozer arrives atop an apartment building near Xintiandi in Shanghai, where it tells the neighborhood's restaurateurs that the next thing they think of will be the form Gozer will assume to destroy their world. Despite their efforts to clear their minds, Bob Boyce imagines Haibao, the irksome mascot of the 2010 World Expo. As he explains, Haibao "just popped in there" as "something that could never possibly destroy us." Moments later a giant Haibao is seen walking towards the apartment building. And then the restaurateurs shoot at Haibao with their proton packs ... and so on and so on.

From Al-Jazeera English:

The Beijing Olympics are still 5 months away but they're attracting attention for all the wrong reasons.

Continue reading "Al-Jazeera: Tibetan activists condemn Beijing Olympics"

UPDATE 3:

SHANGHAI

If you've been in China for a while, you will more likely than not have been a witness to the frequent scuffles between street sellers, store owners and the guys from the city cops, or the 城管, who are technically not "police" but rather "city administration" and "street management" guys. Most illegal street sellers and hawkers like your DVD salesmen and lamb kebab guys will typically just pack up their stuff and make a quick disappearance, and then come back as soon as the annoying city cops are gone. It's just part of the cat and mouse game that they have to get used to if they want to make a living, but what did one Beijing pet seller do to "escape" from them? A Youku mo-blogger tells us [Translation by Shanghaiist]:

Videos from Vision Rouge and lizandro01

You just have to give it to Furong Jiejie (芙蓉姐姐) — the "grandmommy" of Chinese Internet idols — for her remarkable ability to constantly reinvent herself to keep herself in the news. Recently dumped by her boyfriend for revealing too much of herself, Furong Jiejie has now declared that she's looking for a hunky laowai boyfriend. Many moons ago, she once said she's not into laowai's, but apparently that has all changed (oh the miracles...