Jackie Chan, Hero On Stage, Bootlicker Off Stage
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Chinese New Year show 2020. CCTV boasts that it was watched by 23% of the population. That 2020 installment featured Jackie Chan singing “Does it look like my country is…
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Shameless 5毛 Being Himself
5毛不是傻，就是坏. 。They are fully aware that they are dogs barking for their masters for some benefit. Zheng Guocheng is (was?) perhaps YouTube’s Number One 5毛 . Unlike Weibo and other…
China’s Top Emigrant City, Taishan
Comrade Shi explores a very important city in Guangdong Province. It’s called Taishan (Toisan) 台山. Dubbed 全国第一桥乡, Taishan is famous for its emigrants. About 1.6 million of its former residents…
Nanjing Covid Outbreak
BEIJING — New coronavirus cases continue to grow in the major eastern Chinese city of Nanjing, with another 38 reported on Monday, bringing the total to more than 60 over…
Eternal Slavery
Here’s another excellent presentation from Terence Shen on understanding the sometimes enigmatic Chinese psyche. There are two very significant points being raised here. The first one has to do with…
Daliang Shan 大凉山
This is the famous Daliang Shan 大凉山 in Sichuan Province. The villagers who live at Xuanya (cliff) Village belong to the Yi minority 彝族 and are some of the poorest…
The Great Zhengzhou Flood
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China Survival Tip
This couple was confronted by officials who were there to inform them that their house had to be demolished (ostensibly to make way for new mega projects that flaunt wealth,…
Why The Bubble Never Pops
House prices in China keep rising and many people enamoured with China believe that they will continue to rise and somehow never burst because of the “5,000 years of greatness”…
釜底抽薪/打草惊蛇
Former POTUS Bill Clinton is still popular and highly regarded, not just in America, but around the world. Various colleges and universities have awarded “Clinton honorary degrees”, including Doctorate of…