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Jing Jing, Bang Bang! Now we know who shot up CNN's logo

Posted Wednesday, April 30, 2008 6:34 AM by will
My colleague was downstairs at the Olympic souvenir stand in the mall when she spotted this notebook and bookmark set featuring Jing Jing, one of the five "Fuwa" mascots of the Beijing Olympics. Shooting is an Olympic sport (and several of the Olympic Read More...
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Movie ratings will put China on the express train to pornoville: Official

Posted Wednesday, March 05, 2008 5:47 AM by will
And yet another NPC symptom: bureaucrats are saying ridiculous things. From Xinhua . Read the whole thing before I get stuck in: Regulator: China not to implement film rating for the moment BEIJING, March 4 (Xinhua) -- China won't adopt a film rating Read More...
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Is it OK to sing "Tibet" in a crowded Chinese theater?

Posted Tuesday, March 04, 2008 8:24 PM by will
Despite years as a college radio DJ, Imagethief has never had much time for Bjork. I find her pretentious to a degree not entirely compensated for by talent. But, then, I think the future of pop music died when Led Zep broke up, so you may want to control Read More...
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2007 best-of-Imagethief and statistics

Posted Tuesday, February 05, 2008 11:01 PM by will
There is no such thing as a dull year in China. 2008 is well underway and already looks like another whopper. We're only a month in and we've already had the biggest storms in half a century. The Olympics, the mother of all China events, is now a scant seven months off. God only knows what will happen in between. Read More...
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Your very own model truss and other Olympic merchandising genius

Posted Friday, December 28, 2007 5:42 AM by will
When Imagethief read the words "model truss" in the headline of an article on China.org.cn , he had an immediate flashback to the hernia repair operation he had nine or ten years ago. In fact, I never needed a truss (it wasn't that bad a hernia), but Read More...
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Notorious MDA: The Singapore government raps

Posted Sunday, November 25, 2007 3:35 AM by will
From time to time someone will ask me why I left Singapore for China. This is a fair question. I lived there for nearly a decade, Mrs. Imagethief is Singaporean, and I have great affection for the place. Usually I give some longish explanation about various Read More...
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The day YouTube went dark

Posted Sunday, November 18, 2007 11:14 PM by will
A few weeks ago, when Tim Burroughs of China Economic Review sent me his quarterly reminder that I had a column to write, YouTube was still being blocked. It seemed like a shoo-in topic. By the time I started writing the column, however, YouTube was (thankfully) 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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Top signs I'm 40

Posted Wednesday, October 17, 2007 2:01 AM by will
I read printed newspapers and magazines I actually lived in a household with a black and white tube television set I remember Gopher and WAIS "Star Wars" at the Coronet in 70mm, ca. 1977 My parent's record collection: Hendrix, The Beatles, Jefferson Airplane, Read More...
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The scientific theory of reality shows

Posted Monday, October 08, 2007 1:13 AM by will
I knew it was a mistake to go on vacation in the run-up to the upcoming Party Congress. I was bound to miss a few interesting developments as the government busily harmonized the country in preparation for the event. This didn't stop me from going, of Read More...
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The only way to settle the Shaolin vs. Ninja debate

Posted Monday, September 03, 2007 1:26 AM by will
Imagethief appreciates that, in the midst of these troubled times for Chinese foreign policy, attention can still be spared for the really important issues. The Beijing News has reported that the kung-fu monks of fabled Shaolin Temple have taken umbrage Read More...
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Why patriotism won't save the Chinese film industry

Posted Sunday, September 02, 2007 6:43 AM by will
Imagethief was intrigued to read in an AP article a week or two ago that Han Sanping, Chairman of the government-backed China Film Group, has called for more patriotism in Chinese movies. Han minced no words, saying: "The reality of this country's economic Read More...
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