June 30, 2005

Who the hell is Sister Furong?

http://www.cityweekend.com.cn/en/beijing/features/2005_12/story.2005-06-20.5636617325
Posted by Dan Washburn at 4:48 PM

A riot in Chizhou

http://www.zonaeuropa.com/20050629_3.htm
Posted by Dan Washburn at 4:38 PM

Chinese police assault property petitioners in Shanghai

http://asia.news.yahoo.com/050628/afp/050628084518asiapacificnews.html
Posted by Dan Washburn at 4:30 PM

Chinese journalists protest arrests of colleagues

http://www.rediff.com/news/2005/jun/29china.htm
Posted by Dan Washburn at 4:23 PM

China’s state media instructs men on how to measure penis size

http://www.danwei.org/archives/001897.html
Posted by Dan Washburn at 4:20 PM

Have you heard the one about a baseball player with a frozen cabbage leaf on his head?

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050624/ap_on_fe_st/bbi_korea_cabbage_1
Posted by Dan Washburn at 3:52 PM

June 28, 2005

Ice-T to play in Shanghai

http://www.shanghaiist.com/archives/2005/06/28/is_shanghai_pre.php
Posted by Dan Washburn at 4:33 PM

The pointless rantings of an intolerant American on his way to work

http://shanghai.craigslist.org/rnr/80012960.html
Posted by Dan Washburn at 4:30 PM

A Shengyou Reporter’s Field Notes

http://www.zonaeuropa.com/20050627_1.htm
Posted by Dan Washburn at 4:25 PM

1421: The Year China Discovered America?

http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/06/24/features/chinam.php
Posted by Dan Washburn at 4:00 PM | Comments (1)

The strength of China, the weakness of America

http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/06/26/opinion/edchina.php
Posted by Dan Washburn at 3:55 PM

A Tale of Two Massacres

http://www.guardian.co.uk/china/story/0,,1514101,00.html
Posted by Dan Washburn at 3:51 PM | Comments (1)

June 23, 2005

Batman Begins opens in Shanghai on June 29

http://www.shanghaiist.com/archives/2005/06/23/batman_begins_h.php
Posted by Dan Washburn at 4:50 PM

Beijing’s ‘Lala’ Scene

http://news.pacificnews.org/news/view_article.html?article_id=6e81ad04d8330315bc84d1befc65d002
Posted by Dan Washburn at 4:41 PM

China to pay rural families for giving birth to girls

http://www.asiansexgazette.com/asg/china/china04news49.htm
Posted by Dan Washburn at 4:37 PM

The China Price

http://slate.msn.com/id/2121095/ 050621_mb_maytagrepairmanTN.jpg
Posted by Dan Washburn at 4:29 PM

Put it on our tab … again

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8285273/
Posted by Dan Washburn at 4:19 PM

June 21, 2005

Can this figure possibly be true?

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/PEK179083.htm
Posted by Dan Washburn at 7:29 PM

Mao is TIME’s cover boy

http://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,1101050627,00.html
Posted by Dan Washburn at 7:12 PM

China offers rewards for tips that help crackdown on piracy

http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/news/nation/11938566.htm
Posted by Dan Washburn at 7:09 PM

Shanghai blogger Isaac Mao sums up Microsoft in one word

http://wired.com/news/20050620_chinablogs.html?tw=wn_tophead_1
Posted by Dan Washburn at 7:04 PM

Polaroid-o-nizer

http://polaroidonizer.nl.eu.org/
Posted by Dan Washburn at 7:02 PM

Shanghai is world’s 30th costliest city

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-06/21/content_3114274.htm
Posted by Dan Washburn at 6:37 PM

June 16, 2005

Continental begins non-stop flights from Newark to Beijing

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/business/3227620
Posted by Dan Washburn at 6:31 PM | Comments (1)

Check out Spoon’s latest video

http://www.rollingstone.com/artist/videos/_/id/63230?pageid=rs.Home&pageregion=single6&rnd=1118909358245&has-player=true
Posted by Dan Washburn at 6:12 PM | Comments (1)

1041 words and phrases the Chinese internet police don’t like

http://chinadigitaltimes.net/2005/06/update_the_filt.php
Posted by Dan Washburn at 6:00 PM

Some Chinese farmers actually like pollution

http://www.csr-asia.com/index.php?p=2278
Posted by Dan Washburn at 5:56 PM

How To Be Interrogated by the Public Security Bureau in China

http://www.zonaeuropa.com/20050615_1.htm
Posted by Dan Washburn at 5:50 PM

‘The overall lesson here is that if you’re planning to commit a crime, California is the place to do it. The DAs are functionally retarded, and the juries won’t convict anyone.’

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2005/06/14.html#a3448
Posted by Dan Washburn at 11:24 AM

June 15, 2005

‘Chinese Factory Worker Can’t Believe The Shit He Makes For Americans’

http://www.theonion.com/news/index.php?issue=4124&n=1
Posted by Dan Washburn at 6:41 PM | Comments (2)

‘He said he and his friends had been followed and harassed, with one having his car destroyed and another being sent a dead cat.’

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20050615/wl_asia_afp/australiachinadiplomat_050615005346
Posted by Dan Washburn at 10:38 AM

‘Freedom’ is just another word for nothing left lots and lots to lose

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20050613/lf_afp/chinainternetcompany_050613165917
Posted by Dan Washburn at 10:24 AM

Was that porn on the shelves of a Chinese Wal-Mart?

http://www.csr-asia.com/index.php?p=2291
Posted by Dan Washburn at 10:21 AM

Interview — excuse me, Skypecast — with Isaac Mao about China’s crackdown on blogs

http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/globalvoices/?p=221
Posted by Dan Washburn at 10:16 AM

China Daily: ‘Everyone’s a winner as lottery booms’

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2005-06/13/content_450827.htm
Posted by Dan Washburn at 10:08 AM

Worse than Condi

http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/06/13/business/chrice.php
Posted by Dan Washburn at 9:56 AM

June 14, 2005

Warner Brothers must hate cam-corder DVDs, too

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/business/3221063
Posted by Dan Washburn at 1:10 PM

Chinese government declares war on ‘false news’

http://www.danwei.org/archives/001759.html
Posted by Dan Washburn at 12:44 PM

Wang Jian Shuo’s site ‘remains illegal in China’

http://home.wangjianshuo.com/archives/20050610_blog_registration_in_china.htm
Posted by Dan Washburn at 12:03 PM

Katie Holmes is crazy for Tom Cruise

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050613/ap_en_tv/people_holmes
Posted by Dan Washburn at 11:44 AM

Cigarettes: Chinese miracle drug

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20050611/CHINA11/TPInternational/Asia
Posted by Dan Washburn at 11:27 AM

The ‘Chinese Century’?

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ft/20050613/bs_ft/27421ce0dbbf11d9913a00000e2511c8
Posted by Dan Washburn at 11:15 AM

Bring on the ‘Year of the Tiger’ headlines

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20050613/sp_afp/golfchntiger_050613152900
Posted by Dan Washburn at 11:09 AM

‘It’s almost a cliche to say that Shanghainese girls are spoilt, materialistic and emotionally high-maintenance’

http://english.eastday.com/eastday/englishedition/features/userobject1ai1179014.html
Posted by Dan Washburn at 11:06 AM

June 9, 2005

Mobile phones in China are getting cheaper and cheaper and cheaper

http://www.textually.org/textually/archives/2005/06/008587.htm
Posted by Dan Washburn at 1:56 PM | Comments (1)

Celebrities playing table tennis

http://www.larrytt.com/celebrities_playing_tt/
Posted by Dan Washburn at 1:41 PM | Comments (1)

Clause 57

http://www.danwei.org/archives/001735.html
Posted by Dan Washburn at 1:10 PM | Comments (1)

China Considers Banning Foreign Cartoons From Prime Time

http://news.morningstar.com/news/DJ/M06/D08/200506080518DOWJONESDJONLINE000441.html
Posted by Dan Washburn at 1:05 PM

Don’t call it a comeback

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/08/sports/othersports/08tyson.html?ei=5088&en=44bac9d8c893895d&ex=1275883200&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&pagewanted=print
Posted by Dan Washburn at 12:59 PM

Want Zhang Ziyi’s phone number?

http://story.chinanationalnews.com/p.x/ct/9/id/1b3c2ba05492cc90/cid/9366300fc9319e9b/
Posted by Dan Washburn at 12:55 PM

Numbers game in Shanghai

http://foxsports.news.com.au/story/0,8659,15556219-23770,00.html
Posted by Dan Washburn at 12:48 PM

June 8, 2005

It’s times like this when I wish I lived sort of along I-70 between Illinois and California

http://www.unbunny.com/news.htm
Posted by Dan Washburn at 2:21 PM

Freed dissident wants to resume Web site

http://story.chinanationalnews.com/p.x/ct/9/id/b7f05db1f1eb0e3a/cid/9366300fc9319e9b/
Posted by Dan Washburn at 2:12 PM

Chinese authorities declare war on blogs

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=5&ObjectID=10329447
Posted by Dan Washburn at 2:05 PM

Mao: The Unknown Story

http://books.guardian.co.uk/reviews/biography/0,6121,1498718,00.html
Posted by Dan Washburn at 1:31 PM

Shanghai cracks down on pirated movies

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050607/ap_en_mo/china_fighting_fakes_5
Posted by Dan Washburn at 1:01 PM

The Year of the Yao

http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200506/07/eng20050607_188953.html
Posted by Dan Washburn at 12:52 PM

Here’s to you, Mrs. Robinson

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050607/ap_en_ce/obit_bancroft
Posted by Dan Washburn at 12:42 PM

June 7, 2005

‘Rogue players,’ match fixing and wild accusations

http://www.sinosoc.com/news/index.asp?id=876
Posted by Dan Washburn at 7:45 PM

The Chinese people vote!

http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200506/06/eng20050606_188701.html
Posted by Dan Washburn at 8:54 AM

So the rest of us are left with the ‘unlucky’ taxis?

http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2005/6/6/latest/20050606143353&sec=latest
Posted by Dan Washburn at 8:26 AM

June 6, 2005

Am I reading this correctly?

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2005-06/06/content_449050.htm
Posted by Dan Washburn at 8:56 PM | Comments (1)

Man, China bans everything

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-06/05/content_3046251.htm
Posted by Dan Washburn at 8:42 PM

For the REAL patriots!

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=7978373483
Posted by Dan Washburn at 8:17 PM

Guangzhou students no longer banned from bathroom during testing

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2005-06/06/content_449049.htm
Posted by Dan Washburn at 8:05 PM

There is a museum about the Cultural Revolution

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/06/05/MNGBPD1QDJ1.DTL
Posted by Dan Washburn at 7:57 PM

June 4, 2005

Chinese ‘opinion’ poll

http://thehorsesmouth.blog-city.com/read/1317950.htm
Posted by Dan Washburn at 3:11 PM

Need a pair of shoes? Find this man

http://archives.moneyplans.net/frontend204-verify-7122.html
Posted by Dan Washburn at 2:16 PM

The force is with you, Shanghai — in a nice six-DVD box set

http://www.sinosplice.com/weblog/archives/001666.php
Posted by Dan Washburn at 2:10 PM

Newsweek cover girl Zhang Ziyi gets flushed by The New York Post

http://www.zonaeuropa.com/20050604_1.htm
Posted by Dan Washburn at 2:02 PM

Reviews of DVDs that may or may not be pirated but were definitely bought on the street in Shanghai for about a dollar

http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2005/5/25rockleary.html
Posted by Dan Washburn at 1:53 PM

Spidey protests in Hong Kong on Tiananmen anniversary

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=516&e=6&u=/ap/20050603/ap_on_re_as/hong_kong_tiananmen_protest
Posted by Dan Washburn at 11:08 AM

June 3, 2005

Old images of Shanghai

http://www.wattis.com.hk/Index.asp?_function=Recent&_Start_Rec_No=0
Posted by Dan Washburn at 2:08 PM

Cracking down on corruption — one mistress at a time

http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2005/5/21/asia/11011578&sec=asia
Posted by Dan Washburn at 2:03 PM

Another man down

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1802&e=5&u=/washpost/20050530/ts_washpost/hong_kong_reporter_being_held_by_china
Posted by Dan Washburn at 1:59 PM