WTF?!?!?! A stand-in mistress to be beaten by the wife in place of the real mistress?!

Oh no, please, don't.James Cameron thinks he's found Jesus', Mary's, Joseph's, Mary Magdalene's, and Jesus' and MM's son Judah's coffins. Ridiculous ( Read more... )

So a friend sent me a link to a post on China Travel Guide forums by one griz326 entitled Is the Chinese language dead? She asked for my help in setting this Griz character straight. I don't know why, she's a professional linguist, has been studying Chinese, and is more than capable of doing the task herself. In fact, she had already done a decent ( Read more... )

Interesting, and well worth a read. Farmer or peasant? Feudal or not? Feudal as a technical descriptor or a metaphor used to fuel revolution ( Read more... )

What an odd idea: Six people volunteered to live like monkeys in a zoo for five days ( Read more... )

Alright, so I did it. I finally left a comment on Time's China blog. This rather pathetic attempt at propaganda finally tipped me over the edge. Sure, it's only a blog, but the people who write it are supposed to be journalists, and journalists are supposed to at least pretend to make an effort at objectivity, and he's not blathering on like some ( Read more... )

So I'm hearing a disturbing rumour over Yahoo IM right now. After that paedophile Karr case down in Thailand last year, the government is cracking down on foreign teachers, getting rid of the bad eggs. Now, that much is good. All across Asia, including China, there are too many bad people of a bunch of varieties of badness abusing the foreign ( Read more... )

Alright, so we're back. In fact, we've been back for three nights and two days now. I just haven't had a decent night's sleep since the 29th ( Read more... )

Wow. A 10-metre, 450-kg colossal squid.

I'd heard of giant squid before, but this article seems to suggest colossal squid are a whole different species.

A must read from Danwei.