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19 Nov 09
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2 of World's Top Late Night Dining Spots in China?!? Travel + Leisure recently ran an article on top late night dining spots where they quizzed some of the best chefs in the world (and Anthony Bourdain) on their favorite late night restaurants. I was a little surprised to find 2 of them were located in... |
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19 Nov 09
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Ya Dead Yet? Nah, Mon! And...We're back, and without the football (soccer) season to think about, our mind's focused on the "upcoming" 2010 Olympics, so why not reference a movie about another Olympics that was held in Canada?Sorry about that bit of babble, but indulge me,... |
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19 Nov 09
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Guomao's Annual International Brands Sale Opened Today The annual international brand "bazaar" that is held this time every year at Guomao began late this afternoon and will go from 11 am to 7 pm from tomorrow to Sunday. If you missed out on today's opening, don't worry, get there at 11 tomorrow and there's... |
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19 Nov 09
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Khan of Self Promotion The first post of the "new era" was a PSA about a mall sale, how boring, I couldn't let that stand for long. You know, I'd like to fashion myself as a "man about town" when it comes to Beijing life enjoying the "good life", nice clothes, good food, and,... |
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04 Aug 09
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Giving in to the Great Firewall This site has been run on and off since the fall of 2006, today it is basically dead. It was murdered by the Great Firewall of China, which has blocked blogspot continuously since early June. The crime committed? Originally locating this blog on... |
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01 Apr 09
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My Favorite Place I love Beijing, I love its streets, I love its food, I love its people. Like any major Chinese cities, there are hundreds, probably thousands of cheap, little restaurants around the city that serve the needs of the people living in the neighborhood. In... |
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31 Mar 09
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No I Don't Want to Have Relations With My Mother (ie Let's Make the Grass Mud Horse Extinct) Recently, over a glass of wine some of the editors of this blog had a discussion with close friends on Chinese politics. These friends are white collar workers who are enjoying the fruits of the Chinese economic miracle and are equally now concerned... |
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17 Mar 09
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Translation Troubles for Chicago I was a little surprised when roaming around Beijing over the weekend to see a new construction site emblazoned with the Olympics motto "One World, One Dream". Olympic slogans have been in the news lately in Chicago where they realized the original... |
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17 Mar 09
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Why Does the New York Times Hate Chinese Food? Okay, maybe the New York Times doesn't hate Chinese food, but every time they come out with a new version of their "36 Hours" segments on a Chinese city, they tend to go a long way to avoid Chinese food. The most recent Shanghai edition does a better job... |
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16 Mar 09
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CSL Ticket Prices in an Economic Crisis The Chinese newspaper, Soccer News, put together an interesting story in the leadup to the Chinese Super League (CSL), the domestic soccer league, season next weekend about how much season tickets cost for each of the 16 teams in the CSL. The chart looks... |
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16 Mar 09
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Around Town Monday Morning Was surprised to see Puma's store at the Place closed down this weekend, but the sign was still up, remodeling or is it the first retail victim of the economic crisis? The Macau restaurant was as packed as ever though....Having not visited Nanluoguxiang... |
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12 Mar 09
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Complex Does Chinese Women Complex has been putting together lists of the top 9 hottest women from spots around the world and since it started, I was always waiting for the Chinese version. Well, its out and its disappointing. First off, a lot of the individuals aren't even from... |
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11 Mar 09
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Buying a Mobile Phone in China We've bought way too many mobile phones during our time in China, having either broken them or lost them in the back of taxis (or simply just lusting for the newest and latest tech toy), it seems one of our writers is always changing their phone. The... |
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11 Mar 09
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Movie Review: Slumdogs vs. Garbage Collectors The Useless Tree presents an interesting question about whether a film like Slumdog Millionaire would ever have a chance of being seen in China. Unfortunately, some in the Chinese movie industry have ignored the fact that many in the Indian film industry... |
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06 Mar 09
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Song of the Week: Native Beijinger Song of the Week will be a new feature highlighting a great Chinese song (or two) that we've had on our mind (or that's been burning up the charts) over the past week. In this week's edition, I'm going with the excellent pop hop song 北京土著... |
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06 Mar 09
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Another Day When one of the co-founders of this blog first set up an account on a social networking site using the "modernleifeng" moniker, he quickly received a message from an "old China hand" who had a very weak understanding of Lei Feng and what the Chinese think... |
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04 Mar 09
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What A Day - 不平凡的日子 Guomao Qiao during lunchtime.I'm standing at the light in the midst of a large crowd, bikes flowing in front and behind when a middle age woman comes steaming through, walks her bike right over my foot, and doesn't say anything. When I say something, she... |
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27 Feb 09
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Economic Crisis Creating Opportunity for Some? The economic crisis has hit the US very hard, that's obvious, but for those in China who may not get back to the States much, its hard to realize how bad things really are, though the horror stories online and from family and friends bring it home. The... |
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20 Feb 09
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On a Carousel If you're involved in the online expat scene in China, there are a few people you come to know, very quickly, almost all in a very positive light, but one name has stood out over the years and it doesn't bring with it positive connotations, Chris... |
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17 Feb 09
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Too Good to be True? "Stop the presses!" I hear myself shouting, before realizing this is a blog and there are no presses involved, but that's the kind of story this is to me. The idea that Nike would dedicate US$200 million to the Chinese Super League (CSL), the Chinese... |
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09 Feb 09
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Fireworks and Fire Events turned surreal tonight as amidst all the fireworks that are going off all over our fair city, a fire appeared to break out at the iconic new (and not yet totally finished) CCTV Building. In fact, the fire occurred at the equally odd shaped... |
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06 Feb 09
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Hater in the House, Part 2 My problem with the New York Times article on the hip hop scene in China (discussed here), is that there's no reason for that article now. There is no sudden love of the music (despite hiphop.cn site views) or anything in 2009 that's popping off that... |
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04 Feb 09
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Why the World Cup Not Coming to China a Good Thing? The deadline for bidding on the World Cups in both 2018 and 2022 came and went on Monday and to many people's surprise, China wasn't one of the countries that bid. China was widely expected as one of the bidders this time around and would have been an... |
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03 Feb 09
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The Law is the Law Except When its not the Law The Labor Contract Law (I almost introduced it as new, but after more than a year, can it still be deemed as new?) was supposed to be the big 'un when it came to promoting worker's rights in China and keeping business behavior in line. There were lots of... |
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02 Feb 09
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The Strange Story of Bonzi Wells Two other sites have picked up the story of Shanxi Zhongyuan releasing Bonzi Wells, who returned to the US during the CBA's Spring Festival break. This move is a bit shocking considering Wells has been incredibly helpful to his Shanxi team, instantly... |
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29 Jan 09
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Hater in the House, Part 1* During the run up to last summer's Olympics, we ran a series called Bylines at Customs made up of all the stupid pronouncements made by good (and not so good) journos who came to Beijing looking for the "real" story. Journalists come to Beijing, see a... |
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24 Jan 09
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$3 Million Down the Toilet The Beijing city government recently declared it will be investing US$3 million in the city's soccer team, Beijing Guoan, to improve the quality of the capital's soccer squad. The money will be focused on funding youth development programs, but will also... |
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20 Jan 09
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China's Got (Shoe) Game We here at A Modern Lei Feng love high end style and love stepping out in a fresh pair of John Lobbs (at least those of us who can afford them, the others just drool jealously), but we also like street style as well. For those who are shoe fiends... |
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15 Jan 09
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Wednesday Photo Thread: The 'Burbs |
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12 Jan 09
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That Toddling Town Quick, pop quiz.If I told you about a place where:-the previous head of the government is currently in prison for racketeering and fraud-there are protests in the main city's factories-the government in the main city is regularly viewed as being... |
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12 Jan 09
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Ass Backwards Into the Unknown I've recently been given the opportunity to use a swath of farmland on the outskirts of the city. I'm a city kid and have virtually no experience on a farm, except for two bad youth memories, including killer summer as a "farm hand" in southern Illinois.... |
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12 Jan 09
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A Brief Interlude We've been away from blogging for a few days now, but hope to have some things up soon, during this interlude, let's play a game, Andrew Sullivan has a photo of the day each day and today's was taken in Beijing, anyone know what area of the city its from? |
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12 Jan 09
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On the Road Again |
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12 Jan 09
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Who Are These Guys? An interesting post from WSJ's China Journal on China's most influential 15 foreigners based on "their contributions to the country’s development over the past three decades." Don't worry, the hated Dashan was not among them, thank god, though if y... |
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12 Jan 09
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The (Non) Story About Tourism A story that tourism in China was down by almost 2% started out on China Daily and has spread recently. Beijing's tourism in August (the Olympics) was down 7% from last year. The statistic was reached by looking into the number of foreigners staying... |
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12 Jan 09
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Shanghai Boys Behaving Badly We recently recapped an incident in a latenight incident in Shanghai involving nominal national team soccer player Mao Jianqing, who got involved in a late night early morning dustup at a Shanghai restaurant. Now its thug behavior entering the realm of... |
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12 Jan 09
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The Coolest Thing I've Seen (This Week) A basketball that opens up and turns into Yao Ming (hat tip to Complex)? A freaking Yao Ming basketball transformer? Seriously?!? This should be the Christmas Spring Festival gift of the year! From the BBS where this was originally found, there was a... |
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12 Jan 09
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2008 Olympics Retrospective: Beach Volleyball While at first it seemed like beach volleyball would be largely ignored, despite the general love of volleyball among Chinese, it quickly became a very popular event, where even middle aged (and older) women let loose and followed the raucous MC, the DJ's... |
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12 Jan 09
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Getting Harder to Get to China Northwest Airlines recently requested the FAA to delay 2 of its direct routes to China that were supposed to begin in early 2009, adding its name to a long list that already includes a number of its competitors, all due to the economic crisis.Northwest's... |
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12 Jan 09
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Friday Photo Thread: Happy Holidays Things will be back to normal around here again soon... |
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12 Jan 09
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Riding the Rails for Crazy Prices File this under crazy (h/t to Zhongnanhai). A couple weeks back we blogged about the announcement of the new overnight high speed D trains connecting Beijing and Shanghai and speculated that the price would remain similar to what it is now (or only be... |
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12 Jan 09
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Let's Talk About Sex, Bei--jing! News out of Beijing today is that next year condom machines that are currently set up (or will be soon) in bars, restaurants, clubs, and public baths around the city will allow you to purchase condoms using your transport card (一卡通). Just one more ... |
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12 Jan 09
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Sunday Photo Thread: Winter Classic, Chinese Style |
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12 Jan 09
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China's Lack of Biopics Yesterday I referred to Mei Lanfang ("Forever Enthralled") as China's first non-Party biopic, at the very least, its certainly the first ever multimillion dollar major biopic movie. While there have been a number of biographical tv shows, they typically... |
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12 Jan 09
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The Dwindling Expat Package A post worth reading (and you should take the survey too) on bizCult (hat tip to China Law Blog) about how the Chinese hills aren't exactly paved with gold. According to the blog, "the majority are 26-30 year old professionals from North America making... |
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12 Jan 09
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Movie Review: Mei Lanfang (or Chen's $15 Million Apology?) Mei Lanfang (or its English name, "Forever Enthralled") hit Chinese theaters last week and has received a fairly positive response. It stars Li Ming (Mei Lanfang) and Zhang Ziyi (Meng Xiaodong), alongside Sun Honglei (Qu Rubai) and Chen Hong (Fu Zhifang)... |
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12 Jan 09
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Was it Just the Bad Economy? The NFL has put a lot of money into China, ramping up its efforts for NFL China (its Chinese marketing wing) that have included ad buys on the Beijing and Shanghai subways as well as hip shopping areas in these cities, visits from players (and... |
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12 Jan 09
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Sunday Photo Thread: Winter in the Jing |
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12 Jan 09
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Random Thoughts on Beijing Scene in 2009 Here are a few random thoughts I've been pondering over the past few days as we enter 2009, it will be interesting to see how all of this plays out:Will the new higher end bars/clubs/restaurants that opened in the run up to the Olympics (or worse, after)... |
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12 Jan 09
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Thank You Readers! Thank you to all our readers who helped us finish 2nd in the Chinalyst Blog Awards, General Category this year. There are a lot of problems with the award system and voting, but, oh well, we're always glad for a tad bit of recognition. In 2009, we won't... |
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