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It is said that one's fortune is suggested by his / her (Chinese) name, and, if you believe it, the concealed secret can be unraveled by taking apart the name's component Chinese characters. This is why the Chinese people can't be more careful in picking their names and some believers would...
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It is said that one's fortune is suggested by his or her (Chinese) name and, if you believe it, the concealed secret can be unraveled by taking apart the name's component Chinese characters. This is why the Chinese people can't be too careful in picking their names and some believers would...
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Lei Feng taking down dodgy adverts Lei Feng's got a microblog! Lei Feng Diary contains the musings of the Rustless Screw forty-eight years after his death in an unfortunate telephone pole accident. The tone is earnest, and while much of the very dry humor derives from the incongruity of a national...
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An interesting image has been making the rounds of forums and microblogs over the past month: Chairman Mao's Unexpected Return The image is a Photoshop job done on "Unexpected Return," a scene of a revolutionary's homecoming painted by the 19th Century Russian master Ilya Repin. In...
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Taobao user Lee Hawk is offering reserved tickets on one of the 2012 arks. One billion euro gets you safe passage through the global cataclysm: 2012 Ark Ticket Buy now price : 10,000,000 yuan Shipping : Seller pays shipping fees Product description Reservations for ark ticket for the year 2012 (blue;...
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This video is a spoof "shanzhai" or home made version of this year's 60th National Day Parade in Beijing. (In Chinese without English subtitles). Tags : National Day , October 1 This article is from Danwei.org . tweet facebook bookmark HaoHao digg Mainland accessible mirror on Danwei.TV
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This article is by guest contributor David Moser . Moser is author of several essays and articles previously published on Danwei, including Getting it up in China , The Three Stooges in China , The Mao Impersonators , Stifled Laughter, and Media "Schizophrenia" . A young Chinese stand-up comedian...
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Male and Gebi, grass-mud horses Stuffed alpacas are multiplying. The alpaca was chosen for its comical appearance to serve as the grass-mud horse in spoofs worked up by Internet users over the past few months. The grass-mud horse (a pun on a familiar obscenity) lives in the Malegebi Desert (a pun on...
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Meet the Grass Mud Horse ( 草泥马 ), a rare animal that has become phenomenally popular in the past month. The animal, whose name sounds like a common curse ( 操你妈 ), is the most famous of the Ten Legendary Beasts of Baidu, non-existent animals that were inserted into Baidu's user-editable encyclopedia...
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Hu Ge (胡戈), the spoofster behind a wildly-popular parody of Chen Kaige's The Promise , has released a new short: a mocking parody of CCTV's Network News set in a shared apartment unit. See below for more. Hu Ge achors the "CCAV" news broadcast, which is concerned with the effects of...
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Ultraman? Or a clever fake? Xinhua, October 12 : "A farmer in Guangdong snapped a photo of a wild Ultraman!" Following careful verification by experts, the Guangdong Forestry Department displayed the precious photographs to the public on 12 October. At the press conference, one could see the excited...
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Animal stories are a staple of China's local newspapers, as any glance through the "China Scene" section of the China Daily will tell you. Last week, for example, there was a revival of the "pet chastity belt" story that comes around every few months. A pet owner in Zhengzhou became so fed up with the...
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This top-ten list of China's greatest destructive forces throughout history has been circulating online for a while. It was just picked up by the PCHome website; that site is indexed by Baidu News, so it turned up in a search for GAPP. The original author's name has been lost, so we present this translation...