Back in February Shanghai’s Xinmin Evening News ran a short item in regard to the selection criteria being used to find forty college-aged Shanghai “beauties” to serve as Olympic medal hostesses in Beijing that was quickly picked up - in... ...full story at Shanghai Scrap
from Shanghai Scrap on Fri, Jul 25 2008
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MA-Yunlong: Xinmin evening news and Beijing evening news »
YouTube video MA-Yunlong: Xinmin evening news and Beijing evening news, the only two different newspapers from the party organism 30 years ago in China. Lecture. |
| 15 Jul 08 |
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Chinabounder’s Book » Peking Duck The “Shanghai Sex Blogger” is back in the news thanks to a press release pimpingtouting his new book. (No, it’s not about his sexploits in Shanghai; it’s about why China “will never be great.”) In that same link,... |
| 21 Aug 08 |
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More than just adding oil » CN Reviews “Add fuel?” “Let’s go?” “Olé! Olé! Olé?” “Come on?” One of the quirkier news stories that has come out of the Beijing Olympics is how to translate the ubiquitous Chinese cheer 加油 (jiāyó... |
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Missy Elliott barred from participating in Beijing Olympic medal ceremonies » Shanghaiist From state media late last week: For women hoping to become hostesses at next year's Olympic Games medal ceremonies, here come the criteria: no tattoos, no big bottoms, and cut down on the earrings. Tattoos and earrings tend to look sleazy, while big... |
| 18 Aug 08 |
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Liu Xiang: the end of an Olympic dream » Countdown to Beijing “Well that’s it,” a journalist friend said when he phoned me at the Bird’s Nest a couple of hours after Liu Xiang hobbled out of the Beijing Olympics. “We might as well pack our backs and go home.” We won’t, o... |
| 23 Aug 08 |
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The Vancouver Sun’s Douglas Todd is a Thief and an Idiot » Shanghai Scrap Imagine this blogger’s delight when his news feed picked up an article entitled “China’s stress on “harmony” keeps tight lid on religion.” After all, a solid 25% of the posts on this blog have concerned Chinese religion... |
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