Although it’s been policy to require foreigners to register residency with their local PSB for a long time now, it’s probably only this year that the policy has grown some teeth, and the police have actually become insistent about enforcing it. Just last week I found big white posters on the bulletin board by the [...]
There is a cute row of sculpted plant people engaging in various Olympic sports on display near Baishiqiao. The artists behind the installations must have run out of time or funds by the time they decided to furnish these green creatures with actual sports equipment, to quite an amusing effect:
The tennis and badminton players each [...]
“Eight Don’t-Asks” and other guidelines for Chinese to follow when talking to foreigners during the Olympics.
Usually when an area in Beijing is fenced off for destruction, the fencing is covered with huge canvas printed with repeating pictures of greenery: woods, lakes and parks with elderly people in wheelchairs happily being pushed along brick paths by healthy role-model youths, strolling one way down the right side of the picture and then [...]
Part I of The Battle of Red Cliff is coming out in theatres here on Wednesday, the culmination of, from what I hear, has been the most extended and expensive game of grab-ass in Chinese movie history.
When I first went to see the set with the American special effects team back in December of 2006, [...]
Relatively new errant signage in the Dongzhimen subway station. I don’t know how this one managed to slip though. Translating “fragile” into “crumbly” I can understand, but translating “North” into “South?” Come on, China, you can do better than that.
Update: Ah, they fixed it! How boring.
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