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As you may have realised by now, timelapse clips can be pretty addictive. Here are two more clips, one taken in the subway and the other on the highway, right here in Shanghai. If you're ready, ladies and gentlemen, buckle your seat belts and come along with us. It's gonna be one helluva ride.
Make your own Shanghai timelapse movie clip and send it to us at info AT shanghaiist DOT com!
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We arrived in an incredibly foggy but wonderfully warm Wenzhou on a business trip Wednesday morning. On our way from the airport into the city, we were forced to make a detour and found ourselves unable to make our way to our destination because an entire area had been cordoned off. All we could see was a HUGE plume of smoke billowing out from a building which made us wonder if someone had bombed it or something. Our really nice local guide also made us feel like a jinx because "this has never ever happened before in Wenzhou". It was not till later in the evening when we heard that the fire was on national news and some people had died. More from CNN: The fire broke out around 8:20 a.m. in central Wenzhou city and took more than 200 firefighters and 33 fire engines to extinguish it, Xinhua reported.
At one point, the blaze trapped hundreds of residents in the building known as Wenfu Mansion.
According to witnesses, the fire started in a flower shop on the first floor and rapidly spread to an entertainment venue on the second floor, before engulfing the building in smoke.
More pictures here. Also, this Youku video featured here has some on-the-ground footage. The latter half of the clip gave us some serious goose bumps as it was an eery visual reminder to the people jumping off the World Trade Center during 911. Fortunately, everyone in the clip was able to climb to safety. 21 people did not and perished in the fire.
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If you have never seen what a Chinese job fair looks like, you NEED to take a look at this clip. Recruitment fairs usually have more security guards for crowd control and police on standby than other fairs, but it looks like even the organisers of this most recent fair in Jiangxi were taken aback by the turnout. As captured on the clip, a stampede almost broke out but fortunately, it did not. The truth is: the Chinese job market is not growing as spectacularly as the economy is, and with China's improving education system churning out more and more graduates year-on-year and with that many jobs to go around, fresh graduate pay is falling. We hear that fresh graduates are willing to work for as little as RMB1,400 these days. After all, they know if they don't take up this job offer that is placed before them, a thousand other hungry graduates are waiting to fill that space. If you've been to one of these job fairs, you will catch a glimpse of what many of these young people go through, some of whom even have their anxious parents in tow. Fresh out of university and barely having a clue as to what you want for your life, you join queue after queue clutching your one-page resume waiting endlessly, meekly, longsufferingly for a chance to meet that god-like recruiter who doesn't have more than five minutes for you. It is a most exasperating state to be in.
In other job market news, - Over 80% of Chinese university students dream of studying abroad.
- Fifty-three workers in Shanghai are currently in talks with their former employer over compensation after staging a six-hour rooftop protest over the weekend. They allege that the firm had dismissed them before the new Labor Contract Law comes into effect on January 1.
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Ang Lee's steamy blockbuster Lust, Caution was named Best Film at the 44th Golden Horse Awards in Taipei yesterday, the Chinese-speaking world's most coveted film awards. It also swept away six other awards, including Best Director, Best Actor, Best Screenplay Adaptation, Best Film Score, Best Makeup and Costume Design, and Best New Performer. Here is the list of winners: Best film: "Lust, Caution"
Best director: Ang Lee, "Lust, Caution"
Best actor: Tony Leung Chiu-wai, "Lust, Caution"
Best actress: Joan Chen, "The Home Song Stories"
Best supporting actor: Tony Leung Ka-fai, "The Drummer"
Best supporting actress: Fan Bingbing, "The Matrimony"
Lifetime achievement award: Edward Yang
The International Federation of Film Critics award: "What On Earth Have I Done Wrong?!"
Best original screenplay: Tony Ayres, "The Home Song Stories"
Best screenplay adaptation: James Schamus, Wang ***-ling, "Lust, Caution"
Best action choreography: Donnie Yen, "Flash Point"
Best art direction: Anuson Pinyopotjanee, "The Detective"
Best editing: Zhang Yifan, Jiang Wen, "The Sun Also Rises"
Best cinematography: Lee Ping-bin, "The Matrimony"
Best visual effects: Victor Wong, Eddy Wong, Clement Cheung, Donnie Lai, "Secret"
Best film score: Alexandre Desplat, "Lust, Caution"
Best original film song: "Secret," composer Jay Chou, lyricist Fang Wen-shan, performer Jay Chou
Best sound effects: Tu Duu-chih, Kuo Li-chi, Tang Xiangzhu, "The Most Distant Course"
Best makeup and costume design: Pan Lai, Olympic Lau, "Lust, Caution"
Best documentary: "Hollywood Chinese"
Best short film: "Fly Out Blue"
Outstanding filmmaker of the year in Taiwan: Ang Lee
Outstanding film of the year in Taiwan: "Secret"
Best new performer: Tang Wei, "Lust, Caution"
Best film by audience vote: "Getting Home"
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If you guys still haven't heard about the scuffle between the group of 120 or so Hubei tourists and their Macau tourist guides, here's the video which includes some really really crazy scenes. Looks like even the riot police had to be called in!
Short little backgrounder from Reuters: A group of tourists on a trip to Macau riot after being pressured to spend in shops. The tourists said guides took them to too many shops and pressured them to buy. The group finally lost their tempers when the guides refused to let them re-enter locked coaches on a stop to a cold beachfront. The travellers, about 120 of them mostly from China's Hubei province, ended up in a five-hour stand off with more than twenty police officers.
For those of you that are interested, Global Voices has more.
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It's the last day of the week, people! Wake up to these two wonderful timelapse movie clips we found of Shanghai in the morning.
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This is heartbreaking, people, just heartbreaking. While we're still on a manhunt trying to find that amputee in Guangzhou doing Chinese calligraphy on the streets with his HEAD, we hear of this guy ??? hearing impaired and with a withered right hand, painting AMAZING works of art on the street with the five fingers and palm of his other hand ??? classical Chinese paintings for just RMB5 a piece. Some of you know deaf people have a special place in our hearts, as we used to work with them as volunteer sign language interpretors for a good many years before making the big move to Shanghai. In the past few years that we've been here, we've met quite a few hearing impaired folks around China. Communication with them is not easy as they "speak" a completely different sign language (contrary to popular belief, sign language is NOT universal), and avenues for upward mobility are limited, unless of course you have rich parents that can afford to send you elsewhere.
In the meanwhile, we have not given up on our mission to do our own random act of kindness to someone we don't know. IF any of you out there can help us get in touch with the amputee-painter or this hearing-impaired young man, we would be most grateful. Shanghaiist wants to help them put together their own art exhibitions. And we mean it.
If you have any leads, please get in touch with us at info AT shanghaiist DOT com.
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... and spotted doing menial tasks like sweeping the roads, picking up the trash, cooking and putting up pictures of Chairman Mao. No, really, it's just the Red Laowai in his latest incarnation. Tired of singing Chinese commie propaganda songs, he became Jay Chou for a while before donning on his uniform again to become Comrade Lei Feng, the soldier in whose footsteps the youth of China have been indoctrinated to follow. In this latest single / music video, the Red Laowai is singing a song that many Chinese kids learn in school. Some of you guys with a lost childhood might want to catch up on what you missed out: ?????????????????????
Xuexi Lei Feng hao bangyang
Follow the good example of Lei Feng
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Xuexi Lei Feng hao bangyang, zhongyu geming zhongyu dang,
Follow the good example of Lei Feng, faithful to the Revolution and the Party,
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Aizeng fenming drunk wangben, lichang jianding douzhi qiang.
It knows which to like and which to hate, it does not disavow its class, its position is in??branlable, and its combativeness is firm.
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Xuexi Lei Feng hao bangyang, jianku pusu yongbu wang,
Follow the good example of Lei Feng, which will never forget the difficulties and frugality,
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Yuan zuo geming of luosiding, jitizhuyi sixiang fang guangmang.
It wants to be the support of the Revolution, so that the ideology collectivist lights his rays.
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Xuexi Lei Feng hao bangyang, Mao zhuxi of jiaodao ji xin shang,
Follow the good example of Lei Feng, the teaching of President Mao is engraved in his heart,
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Quanxin quanyi wei renmin, gongchanzhuyi pinde duet gaoshang.
Its heart and its spirit are only for the people, his morality communist is higher.
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Xuexi Lei Feng hao bangyang, Mao Zedong sixiang lay wuzhuang,
Follow the good example of Lei Feng, thought of Mao Zedong come his weapons,
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Baowei zuguo wojin qiang, jixu geming dang chuangjiang.
It tightens its rifle to protect the motherland, it continues to be a pioneer for the Revolution.
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Okay, so we've all seen people writing with their feet, but have you seen anyone doing calligraphy with their HEAD? Hell, eversince we received our first computer, we've barely been able to hold a pen! We can't be too sure where this amputee-calligrapher-busker is exactly because the guy who uploaded this video did not give more information, but from a few comments we gather he is somewhere out there on the streets of Guangzhou.
Okay, so here's the thing now. Inspired by the "Golddiggers for the Love of Ayi", we too would like to do our own random act of kindness — preferably for someone we don't know, and preferably before the end of this year. So, if any Guangzhouist out there can help us get in touch with this guy, we would love to help put together an art show for him. We are SERIOUS. In fact, we know of an art gallery in town that would be happy to help him out.
So, help us please, and go spread the word out to your friends in Guangzhou, and if anyone is able to help us track down this guy somehow, get in touch with us at info AT shanghaiist DOT com.
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China's very first Miss World, Zhang Zilin (张梓琳) was crowned yesterday at the 57th edition of the beauty pageant in Sanya, Hainan. Miss Angola was first runner-up and Miss Mexico was second runner-up. This year's pageant coincided with World AIDS Day and was used by organisers to help raise awareness about the disease. Highlights of the show included a televised speech by former South African president Nelson Mandela, whose son Makgatho died of an AIDS-related illness in 2005. More pictures of the beauty queen available on her SINA blog, which has received over 1.5 million hits.
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Yet more news on China's HIV/AIDS situation, and this time from a most unlikely source. Did you know, dear readers, that Naked News, the "program with nothing to hide" that has its news anchors strip as they read the news, has male strippers newsreaders too? Apparently this program is targetted mainly towards the gay market (which makes us wonder if the program will ever have a market among women)? We were surprised to learn that China is among the things that Naked News seeks to (un)cover. Too bad, the channel doesn't seem to be available on satellite here. Hah.
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So it turns out that 42nd Street was as popular in Beijing as it was in Shanghai. Our inside sources tell us that while the musical packed the halls in Shanghai and Beijing, ticket sales just about everywhere else sucked. Sexy Beijing's Sufei went down to a screening to ask Chinese audiences what they thought of the show, and interviewed the actors as well. Two glaring observations:
1. Kristen Martin, the lead actress of the show, when asked what's the one thing she wanted to do in Beijing, replied, "Eat as much food as I possibly can." When she was asked again what's the one thing she wanted to eat, we swear we thought she would have said something Chinese, like Peking duck or something, but instead she said... oh we're not going to spoil that for you, watch it for yourself!
2. Sufei asked two of her interviewees the following question, "Do you think Chinese men are hot?" and by the third one she for some reason felt compelled to rephrase the question as "Have you ever had Chinese encounters of the romantic kind?" Hilarious.
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The Red Laowai (红老外) — yes, that shirtless dude in New York that's been singing communist propaganda songs such as “My China Heart"《我的中国心》, "Without the Communist Party, there is no New China"《没有共产党就没有新中国》and "Oriental Red"《东方红》and putting his videos online — has done it again. This time, he has put his shirt on, created a music video and he's singing Jay Chou and rapping. The song 止战之殇 (The Wound That Ends War) is an anti-war song in 七里香 (Common Jasmin Orange), Jay Chou's fifth album.
To get an idea of the waves that he has created all across China, his blog says it is received 83,561 hits within less than a month. Ladies and gentlemen, this may be the very first laowai to get famous even before coming to China. Great potential there to join the ever-increasing ranks of Chinese Internet idols — although we're still not sure if we should put him in the same category as Furong Jiejie.
The wonderful Global Voices Online has translated a selection of comments by Chinese netizens on this guy (thank goodness, we were thinking of doing this at some point in time, but looks like someone else has done it for us!):
作者: 刘礱
太可爱了..
继续加油哦..
如果来中国的话可以来找我玩哇..哈哈…
Author: Liu Long
You're so cute..
Please carry on..
If come to China, you can hang out with me..ha ha…
作者：who…
同志，你实在让我太佩服了！这么难的歌都能让你唱得有声有色，不支持不行啊！！加油！欢迎到中国来！
Author: who…
Comrade, I really admire you! You can sing such a hard song so impressively. I have no reason not to support you!! Come on! Welcome to China!
作者：嚣尘
你这个老外不了解中国~~要在中国的网络玩搞笑，扒了衣服唱些过时很久了的革命时代的歌曲是没用的““去你们的WALMAKET买件中国产的衬衫穿穿““应该比你赤膊更有效果““
你是美国人“`喜欢中国““不过这可不叫爱国“`来中国办绿卡吧“`（中国绿卡比你们国家的绿卡好办多了）当你成为中国公民的时候“你才能说自己爱中国就是爱国了““
记得“`要和谐“`和谐““把老外全部和谐了“`那社会就和谐了““还有“`开播客“`是可以“`千万别有一丁点侮辱中国或者中国人民的话““NEWYORK可不是中国“`是能买到GUN的“`要弄死你很容易““
Author: Xiao Chen
You foreigner don't know China~~If you meant to make spoof on China's Internet, it's useless to take clothes off and sing some really out-of-date songs of the revolutionary era….Go to your WALMAKET to buy a made-in-China shirt and put it on….it must be more effective than being half-naked….
You are American…likes China….but that can't be regarded as patriotic…Come to China to apply for the green card…(to get green card in China is much easier than in your country) When you become a Chinese citizen..then you can say your love of China is patriotism….
Keep that in your mind… we need harmony…harmony…When all the foreigners are harmonized…the society will be harmonious….and…it's OK…to open a blog…but never give out any words that vilify China or Chinese people…NEWYORK is not China…it's easy to buy guns there…so it's easy to do away with you.
More comments after the jump...
作者：光光
你老一口一个同志,一口一个同志的,你知道吗?同志在中国还有另外的一个意思就是GAY,想必你是GAY(同志)
还有,我喜欢你的体型,鼓励你不穿衣服~
现在的家庭哪还有挂毛主席照片的,我觉得你现在的崇拜有点傻,有点落后,要跟上时代的脚步~崇拜是在心里的~还什么毛主席语录,你当中国还处在20世纪60年代呢吗?
Author: Guang Guang
You always keep saying comrade (同志). Did you know comrade's another meaning in China is GAY. I suppose you are a gay (comrade). And I like the type of your body, encouraging you not to put on clothes~
Nobody would like to hang Chair Mao's portrait on the wall now. I think your present warship is a little silly and backward. You need to follow the trend of times~the worship is in your heart~as to the Chair's Mao's Little Red Book, do you think China is still staying in the sixties of 20th century?
作者：晴天Pi…
同志，你好！！
我是在土豆上看到同志你的身影的，你很可爱哦！！也很革命哦！！
不过你真的是国际友人吗？？不要欺骗我们的感情哦！！
你的中文真的是自学吗？你好厉害哦，虽然还有些表达不是很流畅的地方，但是加以时日，你必定能成为一个中国通哦～～
不知道在你心目中的中国是一个什么样的国家，只怕你来了以后会发现跟你想象中的会有所出入
但是依然欢迎你来中国作客！！！
还有，如果在中文学习上遇到任何问题，都欢迎你随时发问，我相信大家都会很乐意帮助你的~
加油！！
Author: Qingtian Pi…
Hello, comrade!!
I see your videos on Tudou. You're very lovely!! And also very revolutionary!!
But are you really international friend?? Please don't cheat us!!
Did you really learn Chinese by yourself? You're brilliant. Although some of your expressions are not fluent, after a while you will definitely become an expert of China~~
I don't know what China's like in your mind, but I'm afraid when come here you will find out there are some discrepancies between the real China and your imagination.
However
Still welcome to China!!!
Besides, if you get any problems in Chinese, don't hesitate to ask us. I believe everyone is glad to help you~
Good luck!!
作者：WANGXin
红同志真可爱！
请允许有五年党龄的我，代表全体为共产主义奋斗的中国青年向你致以亲切问候和衷心鼓励！
希望你继续热爱中华人民共和国，喜爱中国，早日到中国与革命同志们会师！
和革命同志握手！
Author: WANGXin
Comrade Hong is very lovely!
Please allow me who has been in Communist Party for five years, on behalf of all the Chinese youth striving for Communism to extend to you the cordial greetings and sincere encouragement! Hope you continue loving the People's Republic of China, liking China and come to China to meet the revolutionary comrades as soon as possible!
作者：chan…
可是我们还是比较喜欢穿衣服的人哦，下次记得穿衣服哈。
其实偶们是比较保守的，不太喜欢经常革命，一两次就够了。
Author: chan…
But we still prefer people in clothes. Please don't forget to get dressed next time.
Actually we are very conservative and one or two revolutions are really enough for us we don't like that very much.
作者：逆龙鳞
这些你写的blog大都涉及革命什么的字眼,其实…我们也不是以此来判断你是不是我们的朋友:）
嗯,还是不要走”红”为好,如果你喜欢,你可以以行动影响你们周边的人,比如推广一下中国文化,比如改变一下中国在他们眼中因不了解所造成的误解.自学的中文都已经很不错了,我们也很乐意帮助你…
Author: Ni Longlin
Your blogs mostly mentioned the revolution or the related words. In fact…we won't judge whether you are our friend by that standard:)
Eh, you'd better not go to the “red” way. If you like China, you may influence people around you, for example, by popularizing Chinese culture or dispelling their misunderstanding about China. Your Chinese is not bad especially when you study it by yourself and we are all happy to help you…
作者：Renee
支持你！喜欢东方文化毕竟是好事， 虽然表达的方式有点过激， 热情了点， 可是可以接受。（你可能不太了解，现在的中国人喜欢资本主义的东西， 不喜欢你把中国和苏联说到一起去， 你还是应该找个讲中文的人教你中文和中国国情）
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Author: Renee
I support you! After all, it's good to like the Eastern culture. Although the way you expressed yourself is a little immoderate and exciting, we can still accept it. (Maybe you don't know too much about China. Now Chinese people like capitalism things and don't want you to put China and USSR together. You'd better find a speaker of Chinese to teach you and tell you something about China)
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Jiangsu Satellite tells us of the roller coaster ride a young stock investor had recently. One morning, Mr Peng, while checking his stocks online, found RMB900 million mysteriously credited to his account. Shocked (but pleasantly surprised), Peng didn't know what to think and went about his work. A few hours later, when he checked on his account again just to make sure he wasn't dreaming, all RMB900 million had disappeared, along with the over RMB4,000 that he originally had in the account! Not long afterwards, the money was returned into his account. With the help of Jiangsu Satellite, Peng eventually got in touch with customer service at his stock broker's and as it turned out, this was all a part of their routine check and he was assured that his privacy was in no way compromised. Hmm...
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And here are some of the style awards that were given out last night at the Shanghai Grand Stage. Some really dubious choices there:
Most Stylish International Person
Paris Hilton
Most stylish female singers from Mainland China
Vicki Zhao
Most stylish female singers from Hong Kong
Sammy Cheng
Most stylish female singers from Taiwan
Elva Hsiao
Most stylish actress from Mainland China
Li Bingbing
Most stylish actress from Hong Kong/Taiwan
Charlene Choi Zhuoyan
Most stylish male singer from Taiwan
Chang Chenyue
Most stylish male singer from Hong Kong
Nicholas Tse
Most stylish director
Feng Xiaogang
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