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You never forget these kinds of itinerant street performers once you’ve seen them live. They present a mix of acrobatics, feats of endurance and strength, and qigong body control that allows them to do things like swallow a sword, or force a live snake through the mouth and out the nose. Such performances, related to martial arts, have been going…
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Reading the recent review of the April 8 Rolling Stones concert in Shanghai by New York Times writer Howard French, I decided to see if I could find some online photos or reviews of the concert. First stop: Flickr. Perhaps there aren’t any Chinese Flickr users who could afford the tickets to the show in Shanghai, but…
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Motorized roller blades with a 25.6cc, 2-stroke
combustion engine, running on plain unleaded gasoline. Acceleration, via handheld throttle: 0-20 mph (top speed): 17 seconds. From the Taizhou Rongda Agricultural Machine Co.
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Alibaba.com’s English language Chinese manufacturer directory gives access to all things wild and wonderful made in China, from flashing…
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Youmeiti blog reports the opening of the First Cellphone Film Festival, put on by the daily Shanghai webzine Metroer. The short films (20 sec. to 2 min.) had to be submitted by cellphone to the Metroer website. They were produced using digital cameras, video cameras, and phone cameras –anything really, so long as it could be submitted…
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You may have seen the article in the Wall Street Journal on 2/28/06, describing the Chinese collective buying website 51tuangou.com. 51tuangou.com is one of a new kind of Chinese online experience–finding people in your local area who want to buy the same (usually big ticket) item that you do, and approaching the merchants as a group in order to…
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I’ve seen other photos on Chinese BBS of little kids smoking, but this one appears to be substantiated.
Jian Bing smoked his first cigarette at the age of 3 when a friend of
his father’s gave him one to try. The boy often spends time with his
father and his colleagues, who give him cigarettes for fun.…
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I wonder how many non-Chinese speaking sports fans around the world are watching Chinese TV broadcasts of sporting events (especially soccer) online? One way to watch soccer on the Internet:
Some smart Chinese people have worked out how to use P2P to stream a
live TV signal – and the most watched shows are the Chinese coverage of…
Continue readingChinese online sports feeds: a meeting place of sorts