https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4yW6Y54168&feature=player_embedded#!
― Sébastien, Wednesday, 2 November 2011 13:08 (twelve years ago) link
two trucks carrying 72 tons of dynamite explode at a gas station
like, really?
― dayo, Wednesday, November 2, 2011 11:08 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark
O_O
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 2 November 2011 17:33 (twelve years ago) link
global times says:
Nobody likes trucks of dynamite exploding at a gas station, but China cannot singly pursue trucks of dynamite not exploding at gas stations.
― dylannn, Wednesday, 2 November 2011 17:44 (twelve years ago) link
ahaha
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 2 November 2011 17:47 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-11-03/the-busiest-place-on-earth/3611032
I love the hell out of Mong Kok but I've never lived there (obv) and 4'11" 'er indoors couldn't see over the swarms of people. Didn't know until now that it's the densest human population on Earth but it's no surprise at all.
― Autumn Almanac (Schlafsack), Wednesday, 2 November 2011 23:29 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/03/world/asia/03iht-letter03.html?_r=3
interesting look at chinese historiography
― dayo, Thursday, 3 November 2011 11:53 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/06/education/edlife/the-china-conundrum.html
I think this has the potential to be a really good thing! I'm totally cool w/ the rest of the world using the american university system as a luxury good, if it means we pay less. and a chinese 20 something probably is getting more out of the university of delaware than most americans there.
― iatee, Thursday, 3 November 2011 14:29 (twelve years ago) link
http://v.youku.com/v_playlist/f12279621o1p0.html
― dylannn, Thursday, 3 November 2011 15:15 (twelve years ago) link
is that the woman falling from a bridge one? might need a warning.
― dayo, Thursday, 3 November 2011 15:17 (twelve years ago) link
― iatee, Thursday, November 3, 2011 10:29 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark
dunno if it's a 'luxury good' - a lot of times these kids are blowing through their parents + extended family savings. chinese families are willing to fork over a hell of a lot more for anything education related.
otoh, most universities in china outside of the top tier ones are frighteningly bad. and qinghua/beida barely crack the top 100 worldwide.
― dayo, Thursday, 3 November 2011 16:14 (twelve years ago) link
http://globalspin.blogs.time.com/2011/11/04/human-rights-watch-reports-abuses-in-chinese-run-mines-in-zambia/
surprise, surprise, but q: are conditions in zambian mines better or worse than conditions in chinese mines?
also remember stories about chinese bosses in africa opening fire with machine guns on the disgruntled local work force, and getting away with it
― ASPIE Rocky (dayo), Friday, 4 November 2011 17:25 (twelve years ago) link
yeah that's a good point I was looking at this from the 100% 'what's good for americans' perspective.
xp
― iatee, Friday, 4 November 2011 18:58 (twelve years ago) link
very cool
http://shanghaiist.com/2011/11/04/portraits-government-buildings.php
http://i.imgur.com/54JwN.jpg
― ASPIE Rocky (dayo), Saturday, 5 November 2011 13:34 (twelve years ago) link
― iatee, Friday, November 4, 2011 2:58 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark
yeah. otoh I am pretty sure that the majority of these kids come from upper middle class and upper class families. after all they're renting apartments off campus! and I bet you'd see a lot of designer labels and luxury handbags if you could briefly survey them.
still though, it's a lot of money - $60k a year for four years = $240k, or about 1.5 million chinese yuan
the average college grad in shanghai makes 3300 yuan a month or about 6000 usd annually
let's assume that going to an american university triples your earning potential and you can land a 10000 yuan a month job or about 18000 usd annually
that's still not a very good return investment
but most of these kids probably go home to plush jobs in their father's factory, I bet, or maybe they just play a lot of ps3 and xbox
― ASPIE Rocky (dayo), Saturday, 5 November 2011 13:50 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/05/world/asia/the-privileges-of-chinas-elite-include-purified-air.html
lol - they don't even breathe the same air as the commoners
― ASPIE Rocky (dayo), Saturday, 5 November 2011 14:48 (twelve years ago) link
“They don’t have to eat gutter oil or drink poisoned milk powder and now they’re protected from filthy air,” said one posting on Sina Weibo, the country’s most popular microblog service. “This shows their indifference to the lives of ordinary people.”
the ccp hierarchs should take a lead from that japanese mp who drank fukushima water and publicly feast upon congealed poison milk deep fried in gutter oil
― Nigel Farage is a fucking hero (nakhchivan), Saturday, 5 November 2011 14:55 (twelve years ago) link
a big plate of thick sliced donkey dick tossed in congealed poison milk deep fried in gutter oil
― ASPIE Rocky (dayo), Saturday, 5 November 2011 14:59 (twelve years ago) link
there it is
― Nigel Farage is a fucking hero (nakhchivan), Saturday, 5 November 2011 15:02 (twelve years ago) link
http://images.buddytv.com/articles/Image/blinky-the-fish.jpg
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 5 November 2011 17:37 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-china-independents-20111106,0,3629826.story
innaresting barbara demick report, independent candidates for people's representatives
― dylannn, Sunday, 6 November 2011 11:59 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, surprise surprise
kind of lol'd at this in the sidebar
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-china-jews-20111016,0,1440710.story
― ASPIE Rocky (dayo), Sunday, 6 November 2011 12:40 (twelve years ago) link
okay. is this kaifeng jews thing for real or not? i guess it doesn't matter now, since they've decided to go to israel and get into it. but i think even sidney shapiro, famous jew in china and scholar of judeo-chinese things, concludes that there were very, very few jewish families a long, long time ago and that there are now probably very few little scraps of history, like a surname or two, a street name....
― dylannn, Sunday, 6 November 2011 12:58 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.jcpa.org/dje/articles2/china.htm
kaifeng is beautiful btw if u are ever nearby.even if it doesn't have jews, it has a huge christian populationa nd the little alleys are full on sundays of processions of people going off to chruches, official and house. it's like the appalachians of china:; it's mostly fucking poor and the henanese have their accents made fun of and are the subject of tons of jokes and discriminatd against by hr people at factories down south where they go en masse 4 work. but if it's possible to say that a place "has nice people" you can say it about henan. and about most of the forgottoen brutally poor parts of central/western china.
― dylannn, Sunday, 6 November 2011 13:10 (twelve years ago) link
haha every place that's not a city in china is like the appalachians
some thoughts about li keqiang's visit to HK earlier this summer
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/MK01Ad01.html
think I posted about it before but it's a real fucking shame how quickly HK's leadership is falling into china's arms
― ASPIE Rocky (dayo), Sunday, 6 November 2011 13:19 (twelve years ago) link
I was sad that I didn't get a chance to visit the synagogue in HK before I left
― ASPIE Rocky (dayo), Sunday, 6 November 2011 13:23 (twelve years ago) link
you jewish bro?
― dylannn, Sunday, 6 November 2011 13:25 (twelve years ago) link
i was trying to find the sexy beijing episode where she interviews her dad who was a refugee in hangzhou in the 40s...
― dylannn, Sunday, 6 November 2011 13:27 (twelve years ago) link
no but there's a jewish side of my family
― ASPIE Rocky (dayo), Sunday, 6 November 2011 13:27 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2010/12/09/judaism-with-a-hong-kong-flavour/
I saw it a few times from looking out the windows of buses but I never walked around that area, so sad
― ASPIE Rocky (dayo), Sunday, 6 November 2011 13:43 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GpZ20EYV2s
yo that dude went HARD
― ASPIE Rocky (dayo), Sunday, 6 November 2011 14:16 (twelve years ago) link
do i click play y/n
― Nigel Farage is a fucking hero (nakhchivan), Sunday, 6 November 2011 14:46 (twelve years ago) link
i dont like the look of that cunt whatever it is
― Nigel Farage is a fucking hero (nakhchivan), Sunday, 6 November 2011 14:47 (twelve years ago) link
the kaifeng seems like self-indulgence from some enterprising religious types trying to ~save the lost tribes~ and you really can't blame people wanting to leave impoverished home for a better life etc
― Nigel Farage is a fucking hero (nakhchivan), Sunday, 6 November 2011 15:02 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.globaltimes.cn/NEWS/tabid/99/ID/682723/Ai-Weiweis-tax-evasion-case-takes-a-new-twist.aspx
I love the global times, it's like found poetry
― ASPIE Rocky (dayo), Monday, 7 November 2011 14:07 (twelve years ago) link
forgot about the homer simpson shovel
All Hail the Chinese Military Shovel WJQ-308
― ASPIE Rocky (dayo), Tuesday, 8 November 2011 13:00 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.chinahush.com/2011/11/08/just-another-food-scandal-landfill-becomes-cattle-feedlot/
looool
― ASPIE Rocky (dayo), Wednesday, 9 November 2011 12:56 (twelve years ago) link
compared to melamine in milk and gutter oil, this can't be called a scandal
― dylannn, Wednesday, 9 November 2011 13:10 (twelve years ago) link
this is almost wholesome.
― dylannn, Wednesday, 9 November 2011 13:12 (twelve years ago) link
yah but how about garbage soup
http://shanghaiist.com/attachments/joelherrick/garbagesoup.jpg
― ASPIE Rocky (dayo), Wednesday, 9 November 2011 13:12 (twelve years ago) link
okay back to subsisting on green tea ice cream flavor oreos and coke zero.
― dylannn, Wednesday, 9 November 2011 13:14 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2011/12/how-walmart-is-changing-china/8709/
laughs:
the descriptions of "chinese workers, who are more used to drab frocks and olive-colored breeches, are now falling in love with the unfamiliar shades of capitalism, the vibrant pinks and greens that cloak the invisible hand of the market" are absurd.
the general weird shock at CHINESE PEOPLE CONSUME PRODUCTS LIKE WE DO AND GO TO SAM'S CLUB but--key difference--they call it SHANMUHUI hehehehehe.
"people's republic" scare quotes.
breathless descriptions of "but instead of doritos and tomatoes from peru, there are horse eyeballs on crushed ice, hog testicles in aspic, swallows nests (with living swallows still chirping within them!), and attention deficit razor clams"
the part about how wal-mart and china share an "ideology" (also put in joke quotes), because sam walton is like mao.
south park episode summary that would be too long for a wikipedia article.
the part about how america has turned the chinese off "leninism" by bathing them in "the solvent of the open marketplace" (not fake quotes this time).
okay, i couldn't get past the first page... maybe it gets better
― dylannn, Thursday, 10 November 2011 14:55 (twelve years ago) link
“Now, whenever we create a new towel, we always think about the environment!” pipes up Li Yongzhi, the assistant manager, reminding me of how the heads of Revolutionary Committees used to boast during the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution about how many jin of corn they could harvest from so many mu of land, under the guidance of Chairman Mao. “We have begun experimenting with such things as new fibers derived from bamboo, and even from milk, which we mix with our cotton stock so that it will be faster-drying, and thus produce more-energy-saving towels.”
dude fuck off.
In fact, one could say the same thing about China, which—after so many decades of defiant proletarian opposition to capitalism, consumerism, and American imperialism—has embraced the American-style market and is ardently following the Walmart path to prosperity.
actually there might be some interesting reportage on, like, middle class chinese consumer trends in this piece but good god
― dylannn, Thursday, 10 November 2011 14:58 (twelve years ago) link
Liu Mei, who has adopted the English name Lucy, tells me how Walmart advisers initially visited the family-owned Dalian Xingyeyuan Group to explain how, by selling directly to large outlets, the business—and the co‑ops with which it worked—could be more efficient and profitable.
just a detail like that, about how she's ADOPTED an english name, just comes across so horribly patronizing.
In a Loftex conference room decorated with tabletop bouquets of plastic lilies, a Venus de Milo–like statue (with arms!), a cast-iron sculpture of a bucking bronco (homage to Frederic Remington?), and some abstract oil paintings, I ask the factory’s general manager, Wang Hongxing, a smart, affable middle-aged man in a dark suit and tie, if he was present when Lee Scott gave his 2008 Beijing speech.
ho ho! with arms, eh?
― dylannn, Thursday, 10 November 2011 15:06 (twelve years ago) link
Liu Mei, who unlike her ancestors walks about in knock-off Adidas running shoes instead of the "long, stinking" foot binding rags, and has recently adopted Western dress, tells me how she has recently purchased a transistor radio and hopes to take part in "limited government-authorized market activities."
― dylannn, Thursday, 10 November 2011 15:09 (twelve years ago) link
laugh me a laugh
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 10 November 2011 20:50 (twelve years ago) link
Like nitinol, a unique nickel-titanium alloy that possesses “shape memory,” bending at low temperatures only to regain its original form when heated, China has long rebuked foreign efforts to change it.
this is a really tortured analogy
― ASPIE Rocky (dayo), Thursday, 10 November 2011 20:56 (twelve years ago) link
lol @ atlantic at characterizing the essence of wal-mart as 'anti-communist', as if you could characterize it in any other way than 'pure capitalism.'
this really does read like a high schooler's, lift the veil from the teacher's eyes "so THIS is how the government is implicated as a coconspirator in the OKC bombings" paper
― ASPIE Rocky (dayo), Thursday, 10 November 2011 20:58 (twelve years ago) link
writing a piece based on a long, extended and byzantine analogy about how wal-mart and the CCP parallel each other is just such a nagl
― ASPIE Rocky (dayo), Thursday, 10 November 2011 21:03 (twelve years ago) link
that is a really horrible article
― max, Thursday, 10 November 2011 21:44 (twelve years ago) link
they couldnt get jim fallows to read it over or anything??
― max, Thursday, 10 November 2011 21:45 (twelve years ago) link