a shameful waste of madhouse time

Hua died on August 20, and as you can expect w/ someone of his particular stature and role in history, obituaries are going to be terse at best:
On Baidu news, the Olympics coverage dominated most of the top of the web page, and you had to scroll down slightly to get to a few sparse [...]

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Want to beat the heat? Try a ‘man-kini’ via kwout

I love fun journalism, or at least pretend to for the sake of not seeming like a totally uptight egghead.
The CBC has a series called “Olympic Vignettes”and this one is about how men roll up their shirts to keep cool. It’s been dubbed the “man-kini”, which [...]

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北京白领群租生活:100多平米可住80人_网易新闻中心 via kwout

Frankly, when i read this headline I didn’t think it could be true, but here’s the article, judge for yourselves. You remember this issue cropped up in Shanghai maybe a couple of months or a year ago, when they started cracking down on people living together and demanding more red tape if people [...]

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Hu Yang (胡杨) is the Shanghai based documentary photographer that takes shots of people living in Shanghai, in their native environments–their homes. He did a series that got a lot of publicity in the last year or so, it was called 《上海人家》 and showed Shanghainese people (or at least people who live here) from all [...]

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The debate rages on, with many Wenchuan local residents, according to a survey, inclined
to get out of there while they can. This article claims that out of 768 people surveyed, over 90% of them wanted to leave and rebuild their homes and their lives somewhere else. There’s a passage that’s particular revealing as it talks [...]

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Original article about Yellow River here.

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…according to an article from Xinhua, as we reach the 50 day until the start of the Olympics mark. The article cites purely anecdotal evidence to say that while everyone is still looking forward to the Olympics, the enthusiasm has been tempered by the natural disasters that have befallen China–the snows, the floods, the earthquakes. [...]

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