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Wouldn't a pearl chicken have been more modest?

Posted Monday, November 17, 2008 11:52 PM by will
Look at the expression on the pearl ox and then ask yourself, where is the girl's right hand? Because an ox figurine made with 130,000 pearls that conspicuously invokes the Wall Street "bull" statue doesn't seem, you know, vulgar or anything on the eve Read More...
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A really unfortunate choice of words

Posted Tuesday, September 23, 2008 5:08 AM by will
I don't normally go for the straight Chinglish stuff, but this one is worth sharing. Via Language Log : Full explanation at Language Log. A better translation of this might be, "The world's biggest sporting celebration is about to burst forth!" But even Read More...
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Good to see Guangzhou has its priorities straight

Posted Wednesday, August 20, 2008 6:53 AM by will
From the "you couldn't make it up" department here in Imagethief Towers, an old-school China Daily gem: City gets tough on foreign jaywalkers By Zhan Lisheng (China Daily) The southern Chinese city of Guangzhou is taking stern action against foreigners Read More...
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Humorless heat hassles Hashers

Posted Friday, April 25, 2008 6:08 AM by will
Back when he lived in Singapore many of Imagethief's friends used to run with the Hash House Harriers, the "drinking club with a running problem". Imagethief, being a solitary, sober runner used to give that miss. But it did sound like a sloshing good Read More...
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Pardon me if I don't salute China's plastic bag ban

Posted Monday, January 14, 2008 6:35 AM by will
To look at the news surrounding China's recent announcement of a ban on thin plastic bags you'd think the gates to environmental heaven had just swung open. I'm sure I could see those very gates if the air outside my office windows wasn't full of nitrogen Read More...
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Chinese innovation brings us one step closer to green eggs and ham

Posted Wednesday, January 09, 2008 10:09 PM by will
Yes, it's more fluorescent, green pigs. Details here (AP) and here (Xinhua). It used to be when you saw a green, glowing pig you automatically assumed a nuclear accident nearby. How times have changed. Naturally, this will all yield great benefits for Read More...
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China moon photos: That's all the conspiracy theory you can manage?

Posted Thursday, December 06, 2007 2:35 AM by will
It must really chafe the Chinese Department of Moonshots, or whatever bureaucracy owns the lunar program, that Chinese netizens have been questioning the authenticity of their moon photo. Surely they would have expected to be derided by arrogant foreigners Read More...
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Hairy crabs, the hill of pain and the boulevard of a thousand massage touts

Posted Wednesday, November 21, 2007 6:14 AM by will
Imagethief went for a hike with some good friends on Sunday. Hiking is one of the things that I was sorry to give up when I moved to Shanghai, and that I've been most eager to rediscover upon my return. In Shanghai you can drive for days through the industrial Read More...
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Further adventures in glamorous international travel

Posted Monday, November 12, 2007 10:17 AM by will
Having arrived in Macau, the romance continues. First was immigration, where the lines crawled as officers stamped arriving passengers in with the indifferent sloth that seemed circa Vietnam, 1996. My immigration officer painstakingly inspected every Read More...
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Reconsidering a glamorous life of international travel

Posted Monday, November 12, 2007 8:25 AM by will
In the cold and revealing light of hindsight it seems that aspiring to a life of international travel and adventure was, perhaps, not the wisest possible choice. This revelation dawned upon Imagethief this afternoon as he patrolled Beijing’s Capital International Read More...
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Deconstructing the White Rabbit wrapper

Posted Wednesday, October 17, 2007 7:36 AM by will
Imagethief has rather a sweet tooth. Hence my long acquaintance with the gym and the pleasures of the long run. One of China's under-appreciated pleasures is the enamel-stripping joy of a chewy White Rabbit Milk Candy. I'm not the first to be smitten, Read More...
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Can you point to the one who stole your purse, ma'am?

Posted Friday, August 17, 2007 12:33 AM by will
It was the short one in the dark suit in the middle, officer. I'm sure of it! Don't they look excited to be having their picture taken? From this story on the communique from the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit. Pulse-pounding stuff as usual Read More...
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Attack of the space peppers! Run!

Posted Thursday, August 16, 2007 8:05 AM by will
I once wrote that the only thing stopping Beijing from being a great world city was a giant monster of its own . Could it be that humble Gansu province is "germinating" Beijing's future monster? Could a devasting "space chili" be the beast that rumbles Read More...
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There's no accounting for taste

Posted Monday, July 30, 2007 7:31 AM by will
So to speak. Especially when it comes to sperm. From the China Daily , Chinese women's top picks for sperm donation: 1. Andy Lau 2. Bill Gates 3. Takeshi Kaneshiro 4. Liu Xiang 5. David Beckham 6. Li Ka-shing 7. Tony Leung 8. Louis Koo 9. Lee-hom Wang Read More...
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Kello Kitty mugger positively identified as Imagethief reader

Posted Wednesday, March 14, 2007 9:20 PM by will
Attentive readers will recall yesterday's debate on the ethnic identity of this sinister looking cartoon man: I can report that the mystery is solved. Not only is the ethnicity of "give me money" man no longer a mystery, his actual identity has been unraveled. Read More...
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