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Design FAIL: Suzhou’s Gate of the Orient looks like a pair of long johns
From NetEase “Gate of the Orient”, an immense structure under construction in Suzhou, Jiangsu province next to the Jinji lake, has been the talk of Chinese social media lately. Some netizens say that...
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Pic of the day: Quadruplets hairdos
Identical quadruplets in Shenzhen get numeral hair-dos for school teachers to tell them apart. (Picked from Xinhua)
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Apple’s launch of iPhone 5 mocked in China
Has Chinese love affair with Apple’s products died with its former leader Steve Jobs, who enjoyed a cult-like status in China? Not sure, but the iPhone 5, which at first sight looks nothing different...
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Hurdler Liu Xiang made fun of in ad for sexual dysfunction
Chinese hurdler Liu Xiang, the nation’s sports darling after snatching a gold medal in the 2004 Athens Summer Olympics, has become the target of ridicule and a protagonist of a cautionary tale in an...
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Frame by frame, Chinese anime blatantly plagiarizes Japan’s Hikarian: Great...
It may be offensive to review how China lags far behind and yet is so eager to imitate Japan at a time when anti-Japanese sentiments have swept China, but a video that compares scenes of the Japanese...
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Pic of the day: White Guards
White guards? Four foreigners wearing red armbands join Beijing public security officers as volunteers Wednesday to patrol on the city’s streets. (Picked from NetEase)
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Chinese’ nonsensical answers to “Are You Happy” baffle CCTV and amuse netizens
Video and photos from Sina Weibo During the past eight-day Mid-Autumn and National Day holiday, China Central Television, the state broadcaster, aired a nine-part special series, titled “Reaching the...
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In desperate attempt to fight myopia, China invents goofy eye exercises
A new set of eye exercises, which can reportedly relieve eye strain and help prevent myopia, has become the latest running joke on Chinese social media. In the demonstrative video, a little girl at...
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What consequences must a laowai (foreigner) accept if he marries a Chinese...
The following is translation of a blog post written by North America Brother Cui, a Chinese stand-up comedian living in the United States who is well-known among the Chinese diaspora in the U.S. He...
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Pic of the day: A quick vocabulary lesson in Chinese fashion buzzwords
From New York Magazine: http://nymag.com/thecut/2012/08/scenes-from-the-chinese-consumerist-revolution.html 代购, dai gou (MOT translation: proxy-shopper): An agent hired to buy luxury goods overseas to...
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Pic of the day: No body odor under armpits at Hainan Airlines
China’s Hainan Airlines launched a recruitment drive in Taiyuan, Shanxi province to scout pilots from fresh college graduates. The minimum requirements include: 170 cm to 187 cm in height, fluency in...
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Pic of the day: Backlog of packages engulfs delivery company
China’s package delivery industry feels the impact of the country’s online shopping spree. User @梁大大大豪 reported on Sina Weibo, a popular social media site similar to Twitter and Facebook, “This is what...
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Boy defecates on Guangzhou’s subway train
A photo of a boy around the age of 10 defecating inside a subway train carriage has been circulating like a wildfire since it was posted Saturday. The majority of Chinese netizens were dumbfounded and...
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Sex tape of Chongqing official and 18-year-old mistress leaked online
From Sina Weibo Sex, lies, videotapes…when the three things are interwoven together with Chinese bureaucratic life, it is always fun to watch. In the past two days, a number of pictures that show a man...
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Aircraft-carrier style: Chinese netizens celebrate landing of carrier-based...
China successfully lands the first carrier-based fighter jet – J15 – on its newly christened aircraft carrier. But instead of the news itself, it is a rather trivial detail in a television news segment...
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Hottest English portmanteaus with Chinese characteristics
Below is a list of the so-called hottest English words on Twitter posted onto Sina Weibo by Gao Xiaosong, famous songwriter and media commentator. Some of them, such as niubility and shitizen, have...
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Netizens react: People’s Daily fooled by The Onion’s Sexiest Man Alive...
Either People’s Daily has woefully made a fool of itself, or, as a handful of netizens conjectured below, they did this on purpose: The mouthpiece for the Chinese Communist Party dedicated a 55-photo...
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Anchor at North Korea’s KCTV announces satellite launch success in dramatic tone
North Korea declared the launch of a satellite a success, and state television KCTV ran a brief report confirming as much on Wednesday morning. The video channel of Sina.com, one of China’s biggest...
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Americans use Chinese popcorn cooker on Discovery Channel; netizens amused
Recently, a magical popcorn cooker from China has piqued Americans’ curiosity. The old-fashioned Chinese popcorn cooker is essentially a cannon with a handle. MythBuster, a famous show on America’s...
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On TV, Chinese man rips ‘Japanese devil’ in half with bare hands; netizens...
Chinese-made anti-Japanese patriotic television dramas have been the object of an awful lot of ridicule on Sina Weibo, the Chinese twitter, after netizens found much to their amusement that in one...
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