I don’t know what pressure can be brought to bear on the International Olympic Committee (OIC) at this point; they have long been linked to bags of money and easygoing murderous tyrants who never worry about occupational safety or human rights. But China is really testing us this year. I want to watch the winter …
The Chinese New Year starts Friday, marking the transition from the Year of the Rat to the Year of the Ox, and culminating on February 26th with the Lantern Festival. Oxen are honest and earnest. They are low key and never look for praise or to be the center of attention. This often hides their …
Providence used to have a proper Chinatown — Tong meeting rooms, fan-tan parlors, opium dens — right downtown along Empire Street. Providence historian Florence Simister wrote in “Streets of the City” that among the shops and tenements was the city’s first Chinese drugstore which “sold such ethnic remedies as dried lizards, snakes, and powdered reindeer …
Members of the Zhejiang University Wenqin Arts Troupe will perform a special Chinese New Year show this Saturday. The troupe consists of six talented teams, including a symphony orchestra, a vocal group, a dance team, a drama team, a keyboard orchestra, and a Chinese traditional music team. The performance consists of eleven acts including both …
As part of Brown University’s ‘Year of China’ season, the Department of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies will host performances of Confucius’ Disciples on Monday and Tuesday. The Shanghai Theatre Academy presents Confucius’ Disciples a series of short plays about China’s greatest educator and his three fictional teen-aged disciples set during Confucius’ historic travels trying …
Happy New Year to all our Chinese reader.
Don’t worry, children; you’ll be drunk and bloated in 24 little hours. Until then, feast your bellies with this. God bless our crumbling infrastructure! Obviously baby Jesus is punishing NYC for its wicked transportation ways. Hot dang, how come the Chinese do everything better than us? Obama is fighting!…to keep his Blackberry Sad girls who …
Sharon Stone, who believes the Dalai Lama to be one of her friends, was quoted as saying of China, “I am not happy about the way the Chinese are treating the Tibetans … then this earthquake and all this stuff happened and I thought, ‘Is that karma, when you’re not nice that the bad things …
The stories are just writing themselves this week… It’s thirty feet tall, it’s in an amusement park, and it’s made out of straw-covered steel. I’d be more excited if it lit up or you could ride it, but whatever. [Good Magazine by way of Jockohomo]