All Posts For 2008 November

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Chinese Discuss Pictures of American Poverty

The house he lives in has no door, only a very small window, the interior is completely dark. From Sina: Revealing Prosperous and Powerful America’s Impoverished Other SideAmerica, the world’s premier economic, political, and military superpower. Upon mentioning the US, I think that the... 

Chinese People’s Secrets: Part 4

More translated secrets of Chinese people… From Tianya: 变态000:Finally found a fake id [many of these posters are using username accounts that are different from their normal ones, so they can post their secret without anyone knowing it is them]. Let me join the fun.I once went to bed with... 

Shanghai Orient Shopping Centre Kappa Girl

From NetEase: Orient Shopping Centre Kappa Girl’s self-made AV spreads on the internet–comparable to Sexy Photos Gate:Detailed Course of Events This girl’s name is Lu Jiani and she is a saleslady for Kappa at a Shanghai department store. Someone put a video of her “having... 

Chinese People’s Secrets: Part 3

More translated secrets of Chinese people… From Tianya: 环加驹:My son had a fever and the kindergarten school teacher came to visit. I invited the teacher to have some water, and conveniently tested a drug [a powder that is added to drinks to make people want to have sex] I brought back from... 

Big Mao Zedong Statue Looks Like Deng Xiaoping

A medical school in China erects a huge statue of Mao Zedong on campus. Some netizens complain that the statue actually looks like Deng Xiaoping instead of Mao. Other netizens argue about whether the school should spend so much money building so big a statue of modern China’s founder. From “Embarrassing,... 

Chinese People’s Secrets: Part 2

More translated secrets of Chinese people… From Tianya: 汛汛宝贝:My heart is dark and sinister. 小白的毛毛:I was at an internet bar all night and became disoriented. Accidentally, I walked into the men’s restroom. Originally, I did not see the people inside. Suddenly I regained... 

Outrageous Siyang City Management Officials

From Tianya: (no longer accessible)Siyang, in the north of Jiangsu Province, was once the capital city of the ancient Sishui kingdom. In 2006, it had the third lowest GDP in Jiangsu Province. In the last couple of years, they have been busy reforming and opening up, seeking business investment, and... 

Chinese People’s Secrets: Part 1

From 午夜的甜心 on Tianya:I believe that no matter how neat and beautiful one is on the outside, no matter how talented or rich, no matter how successful they are in society, everyone has those few secrets. They are memories hidden away in a box at the bottom of one’s heart, and maybe on... 

Chinese Reactions to President Obama Victory Speech

Video on Youku. Many Chinese media reported the United States presidential election results announcing Obama’s win and many Chinese people talked about it. The above video of Obama’s victory speech has Chinese subtitles added by the group of people who are known for translating episodes... 

Japanese Invaders? Shameless Promotion?

From NetEase: Look at this group of people, putting aside national dignity in order to gain attention from people. November 4th after 11am, near the public security bureau on Construction Road at Weihui city in Henan, a donkey meat store hired 4 men, dressed up as “devils” [Japanese soldiers... 

150,000 Recent Graduates At Shenzhen Job Fair

A sea of people at Shenzhen Convention Center, 150,000 converged here to find a job. From NetEase:Only by looking down from the observation platform of the Shenzhen Convention Center’s first hall can one understand what is called a sea of people. 150,000 university graduates coming from different... 

Teenager Bullied, Walks Home Naked

From NetEase:Around noon on October 22nd, a teenager was walking stark naked along Nan Guo Road. My colleague and I got out of the car to ask him what the matter was. There was terror in his face and he just kept mumbling “I want to go home…I want to go home…” My colleague noticed... 

Funny And Clever Chinese ‘Shanzhai’ Brands

KFG 啃他鸡 = "Nibble His Chicken" (rest assured the innuendo applies in Chinese as well). 山寨 = shanzhai = literally “mountain stronghold” in reference to historical warlord holdouts that were outside of government control. A “shanzhai” edition product thus refers... 

Little Girl Stands Outside Classroom Window Every Day

From Tianya, October 14th 2008:Yesterday, someone reported that a pupil at the Binhe Road Primary School in Dengfeng City [in Henan province] has been standing outside the classroom to listen to lessons for over 20 days, suspecting that the teacher was punishing the student.Yesterday afternoon... 

Wuhan Builds 2 Million RMB Luxury Public Toilet

On the south side of Hankou Liberation Park in Wuhan, China, one can find a beautiful pavilion of glass and steel amid the trees and bamboo. There is an elevator leading down underground. Where does it go? To a public toilet. “Roughly 2 million yuan has been invested in the project, it is the... 

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