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Monthly Archives: May 2008

Being Chinese

Monday, May 12, 2008

From the readers’ letters section in Southern Weekly - an exchange between father and daughter. Fashion designer Guo Caijun writes from Shanghai to her father:
People nearly hit me yesterday!
During the May Day holiday, when I was in the waiting room at Qingdao airport, I saw an old lady taking up four seats while many people […]

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The president’s bodyguards and the torch

Thursday, May 8, 2008

How seriously did they take security when the Olympic torch relay passed through the streets of Hong Kong on May 2? This seriously:

A poster at the Tianya Forum (today I can only open that page via a proxy. It’s opening fine now) spotted the remarkable similarity between one of the flame attendants in Hong Kong […]

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The monk who took the test to join the Party

Thursday, May 1, 2008

OK, so I lied. There is nothing in the translated report below that says anything about the monk joining the party. You don’t have to be a member, or prospective member, to go to party school. But you cannot comfortably sing “The monk who took the test to go to party school” to tune of […]

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